The lowdown:  'Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder' is a British sketch-comedy series which was broadcast
on ITV1 from 6 March to 12 April 2009. Al Murray, who is best known as the politically-incorrect pub landlord Guv
in Time Gentlemen Please, appears as various characters, including a straight man who pretends to be gay in order
to talk to women, a camp Nazi and a man dressed as a baby in a business meeting. Murray is ably supported by an
ensemble of series regulars, including Simon Brodkin, Kim Wall and Jenny Eclair, plus a number of guest stars. Like
most shows of this nature, some sketches work reasonably well, while others are extremely forgettable. Al Murray's
humour is not to everybody's liking, and you either like it or hate it.

The episode:  The fourth episode was broadcast on 20 March, and features the usual mix of sketches with recurring
characters and one-off sketches. The final sketch has Peter Davison guest starring as a Nazi doctor who is asked by
Hitler himself to personally give medical examinations to potential candidates to join the Waffen-SS. He is assigned
an assistant to carry out the examinations, a gay Nazi officer called Ueberbombfuehrer Horst Schwul (who features
in every episode of the series). The sketch has the sort of sexual innuendo and unsubtle gay references that seem
to be a feeature of British sketch comedy, although it is fun to see Davison in a comedy setting.

Who connections:  Sylvester McCoy appeared as a Nazi Doctor in episode six, which was broadcast on 3 April, 
and John Barrowman appeared in episode seven as a camp American airman.

Video clip:  The Nazi doctor               13.0mb
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