As part of Channel 4's 15th Anniversary celebrations in 1997, Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish look over the Channel 4 archives, and dig out clips of some of the strangest and most obscure programmes shown over the previous 15 years.
Who could forget such classics of 'fournication' as The Hot Gossip Show or The Confessions of Felix Krull - a German series about a bankrupt aristocrat humping his way through a succession of beautiful women? Or weird and depressing programmes such as Moonchild, which was a dramatised reconstruction of the brainwashing of a child by the Moonies...
And no retrospective of the station dubbed 'Channel Swore' would be complete without a look at some of the four-letter word moments that even infiltrated shows as vanilla as Mork and Mindy.
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Adam & Joe's Fourmative Years
As part of Channel 4's 15th Anniversary celebrations in 1997, Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish look over the Channel 4…
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