Alas Smith and Jones
originally aired on A&E
A spin-off from Not the Nine O'Clock News, the show also had a brief run in the U.S. on A&E and PBS in the late 1980s. The show's title was a pun on the American television series Alias Smith and Jones, which was very popular in Britain. It ran for ten series across 14 years, each comprising six 30-minute episodes.