I'm Alan Partridge

TV Series
1997–2002
TV-MA
30m

IMDb RATING

8.6/10

23K

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POPULARITY

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Steve Coogan in I'm Alan Partridge (1997)

Satire Sitcom Comedy

A failed television presenter, now presenting a programme on local desperately tries to revive his broadcasting career.A failed television presenter, now presenting a programme on local desperately tries to revive his broadcasting career.A failed television presenter, now presenting a programme on local desperately tries to revive his broadcasting career.

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IMDb RATING

8.6/10

23K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

4,663

507

Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Top rated TV #205

Won 2 BAFTA Awards
- 5 wins & 6 nominations total

Episodes12

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Trivia
Parts of Norwich city centre have been pedestrianised, although not to the extent that Alan originally feared.

Goofs
Although Alan Partridge comes from Norwich in East Anglia, on occasion Steve Coogan's Manchester accent comes through in the character.

Quotes
Alan Partridge: You work in a petrol station Michael. It's not the Gulf War. Which ironically is like a large petrol station.

Alternate versions
Talkback Production's BBC comedy series 'I'm Alan Partridge' features an extra 20 minutes of footage when purchased on video. During the extra footage Alan Partridge suggests an idea for a television programme. His idea is a programme called 'Bonnington' - starring Brian Blessed. Alan says: "A screen mountaineering adventure with Brian Blessed in the title role. We could film on location on Everest with close-ups on Skarfelt pike; no-one will know the difference, we'll just paint the rocks white. I also know for a fact that Brian Blessed can work at high altitudes without oxygen -- which should cut costs".

Connections
Featured in The British Comedy Awards 1998 (1998)

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Review

Featured review

The best British comedy of the '90s

Like Fawlty Towers in the '70s and Blackadder in the '80s, this is British comedy at its very best - a handful of episodes, all of them tighter line-for-line than Alan's shorts ("the boys are back in the barracks"). Partridge may well be the most ingeniously unsympathetic character ever created - every time you start to feel sorry for him, he manages to do something truly unspeakable. Painfully funny.