The Lenny Henry Show (1987)

Vince, motorcycle despatch rider and master of the verbal wheelie, scorches his way through the metropolis in a leather-gussetted mission of life or death.

Popsi is a traditional Jamaican barber. To him, blow waves and mousse are technological mysteries on a level with the silicon chip and the roasting bag.

The greatest detective in history is about to travel into the future to solve a crime that won't happen for years. You might think that's impressive.

There are some men digging a hole in the road. Are they the same men who dug it up after the last lot filled it in after it was dug up by the lot before last who didn't fill it in?

It's 1955: Desmond King, just arrived from Jamaica, sees England as a civilised land of unlimited job opportunities where you can make a fortune faster than Rudyard Kipling can make cakes. Is it possible to be this wrong?

Heavenly Romance, the new video teen-magazine, tells the boy-meets-girl story in words, pictures and music. That is, sight and sound; taste, touch and smell have been banned. The question is: does it all work out in the end?