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Dead Man Weds is a 6-part comedy series shown on ITV on British TV in January and early February 2005.
The series was written by Dave Spikey who played the part of Jerry St Clair in Phoenix Nights. It was produced for ITV by the independent producers Red Production Company.
There are two lead parts, one being Dave Spikey and the other being Johnny Vegas.
The series is based on the fictional newspaper, The Fogburrow Advertiser. New editor, Gordon Garden, is determined to shake up the small rural newspaper office. Acting editor and all-round lazy slob Lewis Donat is furious at Gordon's appointment, convinced that the job should be his. Lewis's school of journalism involves going on a break as soon as he gets in, stealing stories from old piles of newspapers and getting the rest of the news from Joan at the cake shop, Cake That.
The show's title was inspired by a headline from the Bolton Evening News.
The series was filmed in Castleton in Derbyshire.
The theme music, also used as incidental music and stings throughout the series, was a version of the Jonathan King composition "It's Good News Week", a 1965 hit for Hedgehoppers Anonymous.
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Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01Episode 1January 5, 2005—Comedy, starring Dave Spikey as a washed-up Fleet Street journalist who takes a job as editor of provincial newspaper the Fogburrow Advertis
- S01E02Episode 2January 12, 2005—Gordon convinces himself a mystery predator has eaten all the animals in the local zoo, and sets out to confront GeneUS executive Chuck with
- S01E03Episode 3January 19, 2005—Fame goes to Lewis's head following the success of the Elvis Found in Cake story, but Gordon cuts him down to size with an assignment to rep
- S01E04Episode 4January 26, 2005—Smarmy executive Chuck organises an Open Day at GeneUS, desperate to prove that the company's genetic engineering of enormous vegetables is
- S01E05Episode 5February 2, 2005—Sandy Ball cancels the GeneUS expose and replaces it with an article on sausages, prompting Gordon to resign in protest - and leaving Lewis
- S01E06Episode 6February 9, 2005—Inspired by his horoscope in the FAN, Lewis sets out to expose GeneUS once and for all. Taking a small pig as bait, and Donna for moral supp