League of Gentlemen

Something of a precursor to the third season, this special is a break with most of the LoG norm: no laugh track, location filming, a darker tone and more self-contained stories. Not as obviously funny, but there is still plenty of humour there: you just have to look harder to find it. Very intelligent stuff. The Solutions group appears to comprise of Val Denton, Pauline, Vinnie & Reenie, Iris & Judee, Pam Doove and a few others we don't know. They all have masks on, so we only hear their voices. On the DVD commentary, the League reveal that it wasn't them behind most of the masks: Mark was playing Val, Steve was Pauline, and Reece was Stella, but most of the others were doubles. Jeremy Dyson has a brief cameo as a man in the audience during Chinnery's operation on the rabbit (he's the man who says "sorry...") The 1895 scenes feature Victorian versions of Pauline, Mickey & Ross (outside the "Oriel Workhouse"), Harvey Denton (holding a collecting tin), and Barbara ("I'm a martyr to me monthlies!")