Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell
Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell: Season 8

Air Date

January 31, 2018

Episodes

13 episodes

Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell

Season 8

Episodes

1. Episode 1

January 31, 2018
30 min

A shot for shot remake of 'Hans Heiratete Einen Hummer'. This satire on Weimar steel manufacturing takes on new meaning with the director's decision to have the actors wink at the end of each line.

2. Episode 2

February 7, 2018
30 min

Franz Kafka and H.P Lovecraft team up to solve a small-town murder. Kafka is convinced the culprit is the banal inhumanity that lives in the heart of all relationships, but Lovecraft believes it's a giant octopus.

3. Episode 3

February 14, 2018
30 min

A film maker explores the origins of the influential but little studied music group The Beatles. In a remarkable ending, it emerges one of them, Paul, is still playing music to packed arenas all over the world.

4. Episode 4

February 21, 2018
30 min

A single unbroken shot of an orange rolling down the world's highest flight of steps at Mt. Niesen in Switzerland, set to the song 'Macho Man' by the Village People.

5. Episode 5

February 28, 2018
30 min

On the show tonight are our stories on the silencing of Abbott, Bernardi's tsking, Clive Palmer's big comeback announcement, the Queen's not coming back for the Commonwealth Games, and Barnaby, Barnaby, Barnaby.

6. Episode 6

March 7, 2018
30 min

A successful, forty-something stock broker from Wollongong is coaxed into a penguin encounter which forces her to take personal inventory of her life.

7. Episode 7

March 14, 2018
30 min

When the evil wizard Cain O'Beans chases the tiny Frankfurt people out of their village, they tumble from their magical world into the city of Canberra. Featuring Russell Crowe as the voice of the Volcano.

8. Episode 8

March 21, 2018
30 min

An unhappily married ironmonger suspects his deceased postman has returned from the dead. However, after a quick phone call to the PMG, he learns he is mistaken.

9. Episode 9

March 28, 2018
30 min

A documentary on 90-year-old Dagwood dog virtuoso Wayne Blacka (Francis Greenslade) and his relationship with his son and eventual heir, Bartholomew (also Francis Greenslade, but in a different wig).

10. Episode 10

April 4, 2018
30 min

A decaf soy latte with magical powers costs only fifty cents more than a regular one. Directed by James Cameron.

11. Episode 11

April 11, 2018
30 min

When a man wakes up in the morning it starts a chain of events that leads to him going back to sleep at the end of the day. Stars Shane Crawford.

12. Episode 12

April 18, 2018
30 min

A car that talks gets laryngitis and learns what it's like to be a normal car. Stars Meryl Streep, Jo Silvagni.

13. Episode 13

April 25, 2018
30 min

In a glittering cavalcade of Busby Berkley style production numbers, Shaun and the gang pay tribute to the music of Peter Andre. With special guest Eddie Obeid.