The Thick of It
Season 1
3 listed hours · 2005–2012 · BBC
From the desk
How this season is filed
Spin doctors and ministers thrash through crises while Peter Capaldi's Malcolm Tucker invents new ways to swear a career into dust. The Thick of It is Armando Iannucci's bureaucracy as blood sport — documentary blur, verbal artillery, and the writers' room that later wired Veep.
TV Flash files Season 1 of The Thick of It (2005–2012) on BBC as the first listed season of 4 — 3 listed hours, 2005-05-19–2005-06-02 from “Episode 1” (S01E01) to “Episode 3” (S01E03). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 Episode 1
Series-one Episode 1 opens the documentary blur: spin doctors and ministers, Peter Capaldi's Malcolm Tucker inventing new ways to swear a career into dust.
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S01E01 Episode 1
Hugh Abbot is the Minister for Social Affairs and he's facing a policy crisis; his 'Snooper Squad' idea has been vetoed which leaves him with just forty minutes to come up with a new policy.
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S01E02 Episode 2
Hugh enlists the help of a focus group to help him make a decision between two policies.
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S01E03 Episode 3
An empty London flat threatens the future of a potential Housing Bill. Dan Miller is getting plenty of media-attention for his work on the bill, which is causing creating a degree of envy.
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