Star Terk II

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Star Terk II
Genre Sketch show
Running time30 minutes
Country of origin Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Home station BBC Radio 4
Starring Christopher Godwin
Jeffrey Holland
Susie Blake
Fred Harris [1]
Written byTerry Ravenscroft [1]
Produced byMartin Fisher [1]
Original release14 November 1987 (1987-11-14) [1]  
11 March 1989 (1989-03-11) [2]
No. of series2
No. of episodes12

Star Terk II is a BBC comedy radio show.

"The sketch show with a hint of a Starship and where words with a 'k' are mispronounced". [3]

It was first broadcast on Saturday 14 November 1987 at 11:30pm [4] on BBC Radio 4 [1] until 11 March 1989 and rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2025 [3] . [5]

Each episode [6] began with a parody of Star Trek 's original series, which would go on to be interrupted by a series of sketches. [7] Two series of six episodes were aired, in 1987 and 1989. [1] In the final episode, the main characters of Star Trek beam down and meet up with the actors playing them in the parody, resulting in Susie Blake interviewing herself as Uhura at one point.[ citation needed ]

Episodes

  1. Janet St. Porter's Bedroom [4]
  2. In A Lift With John Inman
  3. Ken Dodd's Wallet
  4. North Face Of Claire Rayner
  5. Annual Convention Of Radio Producers
  6. Inside Denis Thatcher's Trousers
  7. To Boldly Start The Series
  8. To Bald-Ly Go
  9. Two Balled Well Go
  10. To Billed Go Well
  11. To Coldly Go
  12. To Boldly Mow

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Star Terk II - Radio 4 Comedy". British Comedy Guide . Retrieved 15 October 2025.
  2. Lavalie, John (31 March 2008). "Star Terk II". epguides . Retrieved 15 October 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Series 1 - Episode guide". Star Terk II. BBC Radio 4 Extra, BBC . Retrieved 15 October 2025.
  4. 1 2 "Star Terk II". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 15 October 2025. First broadcast: Sat 14th Nov 1987, 23:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM
  5. "BBC Radio 4 Extra's programmes". UKRadioLive. Archived from the original on 15 October 2025. Retrieved 15 October 2025. UK's Internet Radio Stations In One Place
  6. "Star Terk II". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 15 October 2025.
  7. "STAR TERK II". www.britishcomedy.org.uk. Archived from the original on 12 October 2006. Retrieved 15 October 2025.