Tracey Ullman: A Class Act (1993) on Netflix
Class Air seats passengers in lower, middle and upper sections. A flight attendant, a politician's wife and a girl sent to boarding school play out the British class system in sketches.
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Plot summary
A sketch special built on the British class system, opening aboard Class Air, an airline that gives its passengers seats according to their social rank, from lower to upper. A parody of the documentary series Seven Up follows three children from childhood into adulthood. In another sketch, a run of characters pass through a powder room. Elsewhere, Janine Pillsworth, the daughter of working-class parents, is sent to a posh boarding school, where she refashions herself as Janie. The American broadcast opens with an explanation of the class system for viewers who did not grow up inside it, and the characters include Trevor Ayliss, a flight attendant, and Virginia Bugge, the wife of a Conservative MP.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tracey Ullman: A Class Act (1993)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Tracey Ullman's husband, producer Allan McKeown, put a Tracey Ullman special in his 1992 bid for a South of England television franchise; when the bid won, Ullman was forced back to television, having assumed she could keep enjoying her break.
- Characters introduced in the special went on to appear in Ullman's American comedy special and HBO series, among them gay flight attendant Trevor Ayliss, Virginia Bugge, wife to a conservative MP, and future magazine editor Janie Pillsworth with her mother Jackie.
- Ullman shot the entire special on location so that she would have ample time to apply the makeup, wigs and other accoutrements the characters needed at a reasonable pace.
- The HBO version of the special released in the United States in 2009 was edited: the character Trevor Ayliss is omitted entirely, as is the closing song "I Am What I Am".
