Copy Cats (TV series)

This article is about the TV comedy impressions sketch programme. For the children's TV game show, see Copycats.

Copy Cats
Starring	Bobby Davro Aiden J. Harvey Jessica Martin Johnny More Andrew O'Connor Allan Stewart Gary Wilmot
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	20
Production
Running time	30 mins
Production company	LWT
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	30 November 1985 (1985-11-30) – 5 December 1987 (1987-12-05)

Copy Cats was a British television comedy impressions sketch programme produced by LWT for ITV from 30 November 1985 to 5 December 1987. It was a revival of the quickfire sketch format of 1970s show Who Do You Do? and featured Aiden J. Harvey and Johnny More who were stars of the earlier show. ^[1]

The Concept was first incarnated as "Go for it" in 1984, ^[2] with the series being repackaged as Copy cats in 1985.

Featured performers

Go For It (1984)

• Les Dennis
• Dustin Gee
• Bobby Davro
• Johnny More
• Aiden J. Harvey (as A J Harvey)
• Allan Stewart
• Ann Byrne
• Russel Lane
• Alasdair MacMillan

Series 1

• Bobby Davro
• Aiden J. Harvey (as A J Harvey)
• Jessica Martin
• Andrew O'Connor
• Dave Evans
• Allan Stewart
• Gary Wilmot
• Johnny More

Series 2

• Hilary O'Neil
• Bobby Davro
• Aiden J. Harvey
• Cheryl Taylor
• Andrew O'Connor
• Mike Osman
• Allan Stewart

Series 3

• Aiden J. Harvey
• Andrew O'Connor
• Mike Osman
• Allan Stewart
• Hilary O'Neil
• Pauline Hannah
• Mark Walker

Series overview

• Go For It: 26 May - 30 June 1984: 6 episodes

• Series 1: 30 November 1985 - 18 January 1986: 8 episodes
• Series 2: 30 August - 4 October 1986  : 6 episodes
• Series 3: 31 October - 5 December 1987: 6 episodes

References

1. Lewisohn, Mark (1998). Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy. BBC Books. p. 816. ISBN   978-0-563-36977-6.
2. https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/go_for_it/

External links

• Copy Cats at IMDb