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Nigel Planer is the son of Dr George and Lesley Planer and was brought up in Mortlake, London. [1] He has two brothers, Geoffrey and Roger, (a businessman and a musician) His father George (d 2016) established a company which pioneered technology in controlled-rate freezers, IVF and stem cell research.
It starred Nigel Planer as Neil (reprising his Young Ones role) and Jackie Earle Haley, [2] It was directed and produced by David Mirkin [2] and featured an animated opening credit sequence set to "Tomorrow Never Knows" by The Beatles. Fox did not pick up the series. Robert Llewellyn wrote in his book The Man in the Rubber Mask (1994):
The Young Ones is a British sitcom written by Rik Mayall, Ben Elton, and Lise Mayer, starring Adrian Edmondson, Mayall, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan, and Alexei Sayle, and broadcast on BBC2 for two series, first shown in 1982 and 1984.
Thompson had died by this time, and the job of narrating them in a pastiche of Thompson's style went to actor Nigel Planer. These episodes actually had been previously narrated by Thompson (particularly from the 1970-1971 series), being redubbed editions of the original French colour episodes by AB Productions (with different music and slightly ...
Roll Over Beethoven is a British television sitcom produced by Central Independent Television and transmitted on the ITV network in 1985. [1]Written by the duo Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, the series starred Nigel Planer as millionaire pop star Nigel Cochrane, who turns life in a sleepy Surrey village upside down when he purchases the manor house, installing a recording studio in his new ...
Bad News are a fictional English heavy metal band created for the Channel 4 television series The Comic Strip Presents....Its members were Vim Fuego (played by Ade Edmondson) on vocals and lead guitar; Den Dennis (Nigel Planer) on rhythm guitar; Colin Grigson on bass; and Spider "Eight-Legs" Webb (Peter Richardson) on drums. [1]
Two double acts, Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall under the name 20th Century Coyote [1] and Nigel Planer and Peter Richardson as The Outer Limits, [1] started performing at the newly opened Comedy Store in London in 1980, [1] alongside compere Alexei Sayle who had been resident there since the Comedy Store opened in 1979. [1]
Neil's Heavy Concept Album is a 1984 recording of songs and spoken comedy routines by British actor Nigel Planer, in character as the long-suffering hippie Neil from the BBC comedy series The Young Ones.