Press Gang

- Season 4

(1992)

A live children's television show called "Crazy Stuff" arranges a reunion between Lynda and Spike, who has just arrived back again from the US. As a result of the subsequent controversy that the two cause on live TV, Lynda agrees to hire Julie as Kenny's replacement as assistant editor. Colin exploits the incident to enhance the paper's dwindling sales and prevent it from being sold by new owner Bobby Campbell.

Frazz encounters the eponymous fictional character, Colonel X, of a cult TV show that he watched when he was younger. However, the actor who played him had apparently been killed in a car crash years earlier.

Sarah meets a nervous man named Archie Pressman whilst recording an interview. He is the only person not to be surprised when there is a huge explosion in town.

Spike leaves a series of angry messages on his father's answering machine. His mood is not helped when Colin chains a talking suitcase to his arm, forcing him to deliver it to one of his uncle's associates.

Colin goes undercover as a hotel workman so that Frazz can photograph actor John Hartwood through the window. Protective of his privacy, Hartwood tries to get his minder to make him leave. However, he is still in the room when the actor's girlfriend, Judy Wellman, whom Colin had previously dated, turns up. A lady called Katherine Hill visits Lynda in the newsroom, and they realise that they share many mannerisms.

While Lynda is sleeping in the newsroom, Mr Sullivan appears as her guardian angel. He takes her on a journey into the future to see what becomes of some of her friends when she is not around. Sarah is a war correspondent, Frazz a radio agony uncle, and Julie has taken over as editor.