====== Bleak Expectations======
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Wikipedia entry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleak_Expectations

4 seasons of 6 episodes each.
===== Characters =====
  * Sir Philip 'Pip' Bin
    * Narrator
    * Antagonistic and old fashioned
    * Hates the interviewer
  * Young Pip
    * Primary character
  * Pippa Bin
    * Sister to Pip
  * Harry Biscuit
    * Friend of Pip
    * Inventor (of things that never work correctly)
    * Obsessed with eating - especially cakes
    * Catchphrases
      * After talking about what is needed for an invention - ".. and swans!"
  * Mr Skinflint Parsimonious
    * Over-generous friend of Pip
    * Catchphrases
      * "Have this [item], oh and this [item]"
  * The clans of Hardthrasher, Sternbeater, Whackwallop and Grimpunch
    * Violent
    * Always played by the same voice actor
    * Assistant to Gently
    * Frequently killed
  * Mr Gently Benevolent
    * Nemesis
    * Evil Mad Scientist
    * Catchphrases
      * Slow evil laugh
  * Jeremy Sourquill
    * Interviewer
    * Obsessed with devices



===== Plots =====

  - Complaints about the lateness of the interviewer
  - Interviewer's latest device and destruction of same
  - Sir Philip Bin narrates the introduction to the current episode
  - Pip's current life
  - Bad things happen
  - Betrayal or confrontation
  - The death of a clan member (first season this would be a Hardthrasher)
  - The escape of Mr Gently Benevolent (unless it's the season finale, where he dies)

==== Key Scenes ====

These scenes tend to crop up every episode-
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