About this season
Shooting Stars is a British television comedy panel game broadcast on BBC Two as a pilot in 1993, then as 3 full series from 1995 to 1997, then on BBC Choice from January to December 2002 with 2 series before returning to BBC Two for another 3 series from 2008 until its cancellation in 2011. Created and hosted by double-act Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, it uses the panel show format but with the comedians' often slapstick, surreal and anarchic humour does not rely on rules in order to function, with the pair apparently ignoring existing rules or inventing new ones as and when the mood takes them.
Episodes (8)
1. Tanya Bryer, Mariella Frostrup, Leo Sayer, Antony Worrall Thompson
Aired 26 September 1997 • 29 min
2. Janet Street-Porter, Daniella Denby Ashe, Rolf Harris, Tony Mortimer
Aired 3 October 1997 • 29 min
3. Eddie Izzard, Melanie Sykes, Glenn Hugill, Carol Vorderman
Aired 10 October 1997 • 29 min
4. Stephen Fry, Sid Owen, Kate Robbins, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson
Aired 17 October 1997 • 29 min
5. David Hamilton, Sue Cook, Robbie Coltrane, Denise Van Outen
Aired 24 October 1997 • 29 min
6. Adam Ant, Fern Britton, Wayne Hemingway, Melinda Messenger
Aired 31 October 1997 • 29 min
7. David Emanuel, Judith Hann, Mark Homer, Lisa Stansfield
Aired 7 November 1997 • 29 min
8. Louise Nurding, Mark Owen, Melvyn Hayes, Lorraine Kelly (Xmas 1997 Special)
Aired 22 December 1997 • 29 min