Comedy set around Clayton Grange, a top secret Scientific Institute with a government brief to solve the global fuel crisis, cheer people up and make war just a bit more gentle.
Unfortunately the scientists tasked to work at Clayton Grange are a bit rubbish at life. And not much better at science.
Series 1
Episodes
Episodes 1
The staff at Clayton Grange are trying to find a way of making the nation happy.
Episodes 2
The team of brilliantly stupid scientists attempt to solve the global fuel crisis. With a hamster.
Episodes 3
The team attempt to make war just a bit more gentle. Meet the scientists who are a bit rubbish at life. And not much better at science.
Episodes 4
Meet the scientists who are a bit rubbish at life. And not much better at science.
Series 2
Episodes
Episodes 1
The team launch their revolutionary spray-on clothes, a local MP comes to visit to boost his election campaign and an embarrassing virus escapes from genetics and threatens the very nature of democracy.
Episodes 2
Professor Saunders hopes to persuade his elderly aunt to leave her fortune to science. Meanwhile, his team develop a gun powered simply by thought, but no-one succeeds in thinking very well.
Episodes 3
Geoff cannot resist using a 'bring your child to work day' to do some controversial genetic manipulation, while Saunders trials a bionic suit that recycles your own urine.
Episodes 4
Spurred on by Saunders, the weary scientific team tries to impress a visiting Nobel Prize judge with their self-replicating killer robo-ants.
Cast
Anthony Head as 'Professor Saunders'Neil Warhurst as 'Geoff Prowse'Paul Barnhill as 'Roger Bucks'Stephanie Racine as 'Alice Jameson'Paul Stonehouse as 'Alan Dobson'Heather Craney as 'Gwynnie'Don Gilet as 'Ensemble Actor'Clive Hayward as 'Announcer'