Having
previously written for Week
Ending, The
End of the Roadshow & On
The Hour. Lee & Herring made the jump to writng
and performing with "Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World",
and went on investigate a bevy of paranormal and mysterious
subjects over the course of two series.
The title character of Lionel Nimrod is a reportedly a sixties
sci-fi star who apparently played “Mackay the Morloi”
in the cult series “Star Ark” and was brought to
life by former Dr Who, Tom Baker.
The rest of the cast was rounded off with Armando Iannucci &
Rebecca Front alongside Lee & Herring themselves.
"Lionel Nimrod" never received a commercial
release, and was repeated for the first time (bar a half-repeat
run as pre-cursor to "Lee
& Herring's Fist Of Fun" in 1993) in 2003
on the BBC's new digital channel - BBC7. The MP3s on this site
are taken from original off-air recordings from original broadcast.