The Word, Series 3, Episode 4, 20/11/92 (CLEARER)

The Word – Series 3, Episode 4 (1992)
Welcome back to The Word, the Friday night circus where Channel 4 let chaos, sleaze, and pop culture do the steering.

This week:

Oliver Reed, Britain’s most unpredictable man, is monitored like a zoo animal to ensure he doesn’t flash his “eagle” tattoo again. Spoiler: he almost does.

Bill Hicks, the comic genius too smart for America, pops in to remind us that nonsmokers die every day and that Jesus might be avoiding Earth because of bad jewellery choices.

L7 and Ned’s Atomic Dustbin provide the soundtrack for teenagers in flannel shirts pretending to hate everything.

Meanwhile, Aaron Spelling turns nepotism into an Olympic sport by unleashing his daughter on Beverly Hills 90210.

And, because this is The Word, a random Soviet supermodel is parachuted in to remind us that even post-Communist Russia can produce exportable hemlines.

It’s messy, it’s loud, it’s 1992 in a bottle: the place where talk shows, grunge, sleaze, and surreal voyeurism met — and everyone needed a shower afterwards.