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 sixth episode was first broadcast on 3 April 2009, and it features the usual mix of sketches with
recurring characters and one-off sketches. The final sketch is one of the highlights for Doctor Who fans, as Sylvester
McCoy guest stars as a Nazi doctor who provides medical treatment to Murray's character, a gay Nazi officer called
Ueberbombfuehrer Horst Schwul, who has "come over all queer". It features the sort of sexual innuendo and unsubtle
gay references that one would expect from a British comedy show, but McCoy makes a surprisingly good Nazi.

Who connections:  Peter Davison also played the role of the Nazi Doctor in episode four, which was broadcast on
20 March 2009, and John Barrowman appeared in episode seven as a camp American airman.

Video clip:  The gay Nazi     7.5mb
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