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I’ve been re-listening to a BBC radio comedy called Old Harry’s Game that I think would be enjoyable to anyone that’s a fan of Good Omens as they share a lot of similarities. It also has no fandom to speak of and really deserves more recognition.
Cut and pasted from TV Tropes (like the lazy person I am):
'Old Harry's Game is a British radio comedy written and directed by Andy Hamilton. The main character is Satan(yes, that Satan), who acts like a world-weary, cynical prison warder, presiding over an increasingly run-down and over-crowded Hell.
Many of the plots of the first four series involve Satan having lengthy philosophical discussions with the Professor, played by James Grout, a Wide-Eyed Idealist and Flat Earth Atheist. Satan would often try to persuade the Professor that Humans Are Bastards, while the Professor would take the opposite view. Satan's chief minion was originally Reliable Traitor Gary, replaced by cringing lackey Scumspawn. Other characters included Thomas, a man with no redeeming qualities (and the driver of the car that killed the Professor), and numerous historical figures who had somehow ended up in Hell (including foul-mouthed Jane Austen, hypocritical Thomas Jefferson and meretricious Will Shakespeare).
In season five, Satan left Hell, subverting his usual role by visiting world leaders and trying to persuade them to get people to live more virtuous lives in order to ease the over-crowding in Hell. At the end of each episode he would return to Hell in order to sort out the messes his subordinates had made in his absence.
Season six introduced Edith, an academic who agreed to write a biography of Satan in return for him looking into the mysterious events surrounding her death. (She's also Thomas's mother-in-law, and loathes him as much as ... well, anyone who's met him. Naturally, Satan makes them roommates.) In season seven, a dog and a baby arrive in Hell, due to a cock-up in Heaven's new computer systems; Satan ends up trying to locate the baby's new parents, while Thomas, surprisingly, finds himself literally Petting The Dog.
The show is lighter and funnier than it sounds, and usually manages to avoid being Anvilicious in its handling of weighty philosophical issues.’
Tv Tropes page and Wikipedia page.
The show currently has 7 series, each containing 6 30 minute episodes. Oh, and 2 Christmas specials. Some wonderful person's uploaded them onto youtube and Amazon have all the boxsets :)
Thoughts? Any fans already out there?
I’ve been re-listening to a BBC radio comedy called Old Harry’s Game that I think would be enjoyable to anyone that’s a fan of Good Omens as they share a lot of similarities. It also has no fandom to speak of and really deserves more recognition.
Cut and pasted from TV Tropes (like the lazy person I am):
'Old Harry's Game is a British radio comedy written and directed by Andy Hamilton. The main character is Satan(yes, that Satan), who acts like a world-weary, cynical prison warder, presiding over an increasingly run-down and over-crowded Hell.
Many of the plots of the first four series involve Satan having lengthy philosophical discussions with the Professor, played by James Grout, a Wide-Eyed Idealist and Flat Earth Atheist. Satan would often try to persuade the Professor that Humans Are Bastards, while the Professor would take the opposite view. Satan's chief minion was originally Reliable Traitor Gary, replaced by cringing lackey Scumspawn. Other characters included Thomas, a man with no redeeming qualities (and the driver of the car that killed the Professor), and numerous historical figures who had somehow ended up in Hell (including foul-mouthed Jane Austen, hypocritical Thomas Jefferson and meretricious Will Shakespeare).
In season five, Satan left Hell, subverting his usual role by visiting world leaders and trying to persuade them to get people to live more virtuous lives in order to ease the over-crowding in Hell. At the end of each episode he would return to Hell in order to sort out the messes his subordinates had made in his absence.
Season six introduced Edith, an academic who agreed to write a biography of Satan in return for him looking into the mysterious events surrounding her death. (She's also Thomas's mother-in-law, and loathes him as much as ... well, anyone who's met him. Naturally, Satan makes them roommates.) In season seven, a dog and a baby arrive in Hell, due to a cock-up in Heaven's new computer systems; Satan ends up trying to locate the baby's new parents, while Thomas, surprisingly, finds himself literally Petting The Dog.
The show is lighter and funnier than it sounds, and usually manages to avoid being Anvilicious in its handling of weighty philosophical issues.’
Tv Tropes page and Wikipedia page.
The show currently has 7 series, each containing 6 30 minute episodes. Oh, and 2 Christmas specials. Some wonderful person's uploaded them onto youtube and Amazon have all the boxsets :)
Thoughts? Any fans already out there?