Part of Episode 6 of the 2nd series of the TV comedy 'The New Statesman ' was filmed in Bramham Parish Church and Bramham Park.
Titled 'May The Best Man Win' the episode was broadcast on the 19th February 1989 so it can be estimated that the filming took place the previous summer.
The series starred Richard Michael Mayall (Rik) (7 March 1958 – 9 June 2014) who was an English comedian, actor and writer. Mayall formed a close partnership with Ade Edmondson while they were students at Manchester University, and was a pioneer of alternative comedy in the 1980s.
May the Best Man Win (19 February 1989) – Piers' announcement that he is engaged to be married is met with derision by Alan, who charges him £500 for the "privilege" of having Alan as his best man. Upon meeting the beautiful, intelligent, wealthy, and assertive Clarissa, Alan falls instantly in lust, but after he seduces her atop her parents' dining room table while her parents and Piers are in the next room, she insults his skills as a lover and declares that, once she is married, she will see to it that Piers no longer acts as Alan's lackey. Now determined to break up the wedding, Alan first tries to kill Clarissa—first by dropping a gargoyle on her from atop her stately home's roof, then attempting to trap her car in the path of an oncoming train—then hires an actress to crash the wedding and pretend to be the mother of Piers' illegitimate child, but Clarissa, through a mixture of luck and skill, foils him at every turn, and the wedding is completed as planned. The resourceful Alan, drawing upon his status as a member of the Stale Food Working Group of the Parliamentary Catering Committee, gets the last laugh, however: at the wedding reception, he ensures that the entire feast is laced with salmonella and botulism. As the guests, including his own wife, slide into nauseous comas, Alan delivers a very special toast to the happy couple ... and himself.
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