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Kevin Turvey was a British television comedy character, created by actor and comedian
Rik Mayall
Richard Michael Mayall (7 March 1958 – 9 June 2014) was an English actor, stand-up comedian and writer. He formed a close partnership with Ade Edmondson while they were students at Manchester University and was a pioneer of alternative ...
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sketch show
Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. The form developed and became popular in vaudeville, and is ...
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A Kick Up the Eighties
''A Kick Up the Eighties'' was a 1981–1984 BBC 2 comedy sketch show starring Robbie Coltrane (Series 2), Tracey Ullman, Richard Stilgoe (Series 1), Miriam Margolyes, Rik Mayall, Ron Bain and Roger Sloman.
The show was created by Tom Gutterid ...
'' in 1981.
''A Kick Up the Eighties''
Turvey, an awkward and socially inept character who spoke with a broad
West Midlands accent, was a self-styled "investigative journalist" who still lived with his mother, wore a shapeless blue
anorak
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, fancied a local girl called Theresa Kelly (who was never depicted), and rarely ventured outside his home town of
Redditch
Redditch is a town, and local government district, in north-east Worcestershire, England, approximately south of Birmingham. The district has a population of 85,000 as of 2019. In the 19th century, it became the international centre for the ...
, north
Worcestershire
Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see His ...
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Each week, his 'investigations' amounted to little more than an over-excited, rambling, uninformed monologue delivered straight to camera,
providing absolutely no insight into the subject-matter whatsoever.
The Kevin Turvey segments used as theme music the third movement ''alla marcia'' from the ''
Karelia Suite
''Karelia Suite'', Op. 11 is a subset of pieces from the longer ''Karelia Music'' (named after the region of Karelia) written by Jean Sibelius in 1893 for the Viipuri Students' Association and premiered, with Sibelius conducting, at the Imper ...
'' by Sibelius; the first movement, ''Intermezzo'', was the theme of ITV's ''
This Week'' current affairs programme.
''The Man Behind the Green Door''
In 1982 a one-off
mockumentary
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These productions are often used to analyze or comment on c ...
, ''Kevin Turvey the Man Behind the Green Door'' was broadcast. In this, a
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'fly-on-the-wall' camera crew followed Kevin for a week as he went about his "investigations."