Search results

18. Global Warming Annoyed never to have played at the Globe Theatre Steven hesitantly agrees to perform in the controversial director Daz Klondyke's revolutionary new production of 'Twelfth Night' alongside the non-professional Kyle and a cast of dogs. On opening night the dogs have yet to...

17. Man Of Sex When veteran actor Ormond Sacker's drinking forces him to drop out of the play 'Man of Sex' Steven is dismayed that Ray Purchase's albino twin Bill takes over the role as Bill is forever playing cruel pranks on Steven onstage and, were it not for Steven's new girlfriend...

16. Bob A Job Believing that it could lead to a Hollywood career Steven reluctantly agrees to do the Royal Variety Show, hosted by Bob Monkhouse - who is not dead but has a zombie wife and whose jokes Steven fails to understand. Steven's rendition of the Sand Dance partnered by Ray Purchase is...

15. Hamm On Toast After falling downstairs a severely concussed Steven becomes smitten with visiting American actor Jon Hamm, ignoring the adoring starlet Pooky Hook. Steven even takes Hamm to visit his dying father Colonel Gonville Toast who is about to announce his beneficiaries, though there...

14. Beauty Calls with Peter Davison Steven is introduced to Clancy Moped, a TV weather girl who is passionate about weather and feminism. She actually falls in love with him but the romance ends abruptly when she and other feminists invade a beauty contest Steven is judging. There is little...

Series 3. 13. Over The Moon After disclosing in a television interview that the moon landing was a fake directed by Stanley Kubrick Steven is shadowed by a CIA gunman. Things get worse as he is sacked from his voice-over work and, racked by nerves during a live streaming of 'Macbeth' he chains...

12. Fool In Love Toast finds himself having to move out from his digs while Ed's niece, Honeysuckle, comes to stay. Honeysuckle has come down to get homeopathy treatment for an allergy which is more close to demonic possession. Toast also learns the love of his life and the woman that broke his...

11. Buried Alive After discovering that ex-wife Ellen is to marry potato crisps magnate Sterling Porrich Steven gets a role in a Hollywood blockbuster alongside crazy super-star Max Gland. However the role involves him being buried alive and he is left underground when the crew disappears...

10. High Winds Actor (with Peter Davison) When Steven's friend Axel Jacklin, Britain's best actor at performing in front of a wind machine, dies Steven's agent Jane puts him up for the leading role in a period maritime drama and he proves that he can withstand the machine. However he must be a...

9. The Moose Trap with Peter Davison Over-tired after recording an all night voice-over session of SatNav for the Elderly, Steven goes on radio's 'Woman's Hour' to discuss his role as Inspector Attenborough in Anthea Crippen's long-running play 'The Moose Trap.' Sadly, he reveals the name of...

8. Desperate Measures with Paul Darrow Fed up with voice-overs Steven turns down a children's show - recalling an awkward moment in the past - and falls out with a gun-toting director. After Purchase has ratted on him to the tax people he agrees to helm the stage version of 'Calendar Girls'...

Series 2 7. Match Fit ( with Louise Jameson) Reduced to recording 'Mind the Gap' for Boris Johnson and playing Charles Dickens on a sight-seeing bus tour with a single, stroppy passenger Steven is happy to enter the River Rats' Celebrities and Prostitutes blow football charity match. Whilst Mrs...

6. Bonus Ball - with Michael Ball After failing to become the screen's next James Bond Steven loses twenty thousand pounds to Andrew Lloyd Webber in a poker game and is pursued by Lloyd Webber's recovery man Michael Ball though finding time to dub a gay German porn film with Ray Purchase - not...

5. The End Link to transcription of this episode. https://www.imdforums.com/threads/toast-of-london-s01e05-the-end.6955/ Tired of voice-overs and the awful play Steven writes an erotic novel - as Paloma Toast - and new agent Brooke Hooberman secures a deal with publisher Yvonne Wryly to take...

4. Submission Having recorded voice-overs for use on new navy submarine the 'Penetrator', Toast, who has a penchant for ladies in uniform, is delighted when Commander Scott-Gorham, the woman officer in charge, invites him to its launch. Together they overpower mad vice-commander Hopkinson-Finch...

3. Vanity Project After his foul-mouthed ex-wife Ellen beats him up with a club on a mini-golf course Steven learns that she wants a hefty divorce settlement so it seems a gift when he is offered a part in the block-buster 'Prince Philip, Scoundrel Dog' directed by anti-Royalist rich Arab Mr...

2. Afternoon Tea After yet another appalling review Steven rehearses for a new play but encounters a double obstacle. One is the presence of the vengeful Ray Purchase as co-star, the other the fact that the director, Acker Herron, is a lunatic who kills actors who will not obey him. Indeed...

Hilarious comedy with Matt Berry playing Steven Toast , an actor, who isn't exactly successful. Full of madcap characters. Appearances by Louise Jameson, Paul Darrow Peter Davison among others. 1. Addictive Personality Actor Steven Toast is informed by agent Jane Plough that Braz magazine...

A very interesting story from series 1, about the extremes of advertising including subliminally transmitted instructions to unsuspecting public. Maurice Roeves , Stott from Dr Who Caves of Androzani is great in this. Archivetvmusings review below, as mentioned the tension between Quist and...

WARNING, SPOILERS AHEAD NEW SERIES 7.1. MERRILY MERRILY Just started watching new series and I'll post as I watch them. Laurence has organised an afternoon on a pedalo with former college chums, Darren and Callum. Joining them uninvited is Donna, Darren's latest girl friend. As they pedal...