[DanaC]

I've come in here to big up Cabin Pressure again.

I've been revisiting it over the past week, as they've been playing series one on Radio4Extra - turns out they did a two-parter over Christmas to wrap the series up. It's been running on and off since 2008 - I think they missed out 2010, aside from a Christmas special, and 2012. They ran the last full series in 2013.

During the series lifetime, one of its main stars, Benedict Cumberbatch has gone off and got ludicrously famous - but not too fanous to return for a two part special, which aired over Christmas, to wrap the series up :p

The set up is - tinpot little airline, with a single plane run on less than a shoestring, with a has been former pilot acting as first officer, and more or less failed pilot acting as pilot - he took five times to pass his flight exams, so none of the proper airlines will touch him with a ten foot barge pole - though he still has delusions of grandeur and keeps applying to the big airlines anyway.

The 'airline' is run by a penny-pinching, aggressive woman and they are 'assisted' by her rather dim 26 year old son.


This clip was chosen for Limey :P





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