First Aired: March 23rd, 2000
Status: Ended
Genre: Comedy
Network: Channel 4
Summary: Jam is a postmodern British dark comedy series created, written and directed by Chris Morris, and was broadcast on Channel 4 during March and April 2000. It was based on the earlier BBC Radio 1 show, Blue Jam, and consisted of a series of unsettling sketches unfolding over an ambient soundtrack.
Many of the sketches re-used the original radio soundtracks with the actors lip-synching their lines, an unusual technique which added to the programme's unsettling atmosphere.
The cast, which comprised people who Morris had worked with on his earlier TV work such as The Day Today and Brass Eye, included Amelia Bullmore, David Cann, Julia Davis, Kevin Eldon and Mark Heap, as well as occasional appearances from Morris himself. It was written by Chris Morris and Peter Baynham, with additional material contributed by Jane Bussmann, David Quantick, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews and the cast.
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Season 1
Episode 1: Jam 1: chemotherapy wig
Air Date: March 23rd, 2000
Summary: Robert Kilroy Silk loses his mind, a man picks up his car from the garage only to find it is only four feet long, a suicidal man jumps off a first-floor balcony forty times rather than once off the top of the building, and an agency provides thick people for jobs that thick people are particularly good at.
Episode 2: Jam 2: astonishing sod ape
Air Date: March 30th, 2000
Summary: A woman calls a plumber to fix her dead baby, porn stars are afflicted by a deadly disease called "the gush", a man is buried alive because he doesn't want to die in his old age, and Mr Ventham goes to a therapist to find out what he should do on Saturday evening.
Episode 3: Jam 3: oooohmhuhhhh
Air Date: April 6th, 2000
Summary: A couple calls a repairman to deal with the lizards coming out of their television, a woman farts on her secretary's head rather than give one of her employees a pay raise, Mr Ventham can't find his wallet, and a man tries to hold up a shop with a gun in his stomach.
Episode 4: Jam 4: arrested for copying dogs
Air Date: April 13rd, 2000
Summary: A doctor takes up phone sex to raise money for a young girl with cancer, Mr. Ventham's chin is a bit hot, a six-year-old girl helps a man get rid of a dead body, and a couple whose baby was miscarried is given the gift of a small coffin by their neighbour.
Episode 5: Jam 5: fussfussfussfussfussfussfuss
Air Date: April 20th, 2000
Summary: A woman's unorthodox method of acupuncture tends to leave her patients dead, a man tries to hold up a shop but forgets the axe he was going to use, a doctor blinds himself to get out of explaining an unusual prescription, and a very uninterested couple deal with the disappearance of their son.
Episode 6: Jam 6: born dead through your own arse
Air Date: April 27th, 2000
Summary: A woman tricks a man into "raping" her, two parents believe their daughter is really a 45-year-old man trapped in a little girl's body, a couple have an extremely bizarre sexual encounter, and a doctor insists there is nothing wrong with wetting yourself.
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