All the linking sections written by and starring Paul Merton and Angus Deayton for BBC2's TV Hell night from 1992 - a whole evening devoted to what were deemed to be the most appalling and tacky examples of British television.

Paul Merton plays a couch potato who meets an untimely death (thanks to Phill Jupitus as the couch potato in the flat above) and finds that he has been consigned to the nightmares of TV Hell, administered by Angus Deayton's diabolical executive. But to the devil's bewilderment, none of the programming horrors he inflicts on Merton can shake his love of televisual tat...

Twenty years on, it's fascinating to see what was considered a justifiable inhabitant of TV Hell at the time and which programmes and television personalities have seen their reputation improve or erode even further. The low esteem that Doctor Who was held in by the BBC in the early 1990s, for example, is all too evident from the numerous Doctor Who characters which appear on the screens of TV Hell (Bonnie Langford's Mel, Tom Baker's Doctor, a 1980s cyberman and President Borusa of Gallifrey can all be glimpsed) but there are far more uncomfortable moments with the references to now disgraced former BBC employees.

The picture quality and audio is variable with some lip-synching glitches.