Black and Blue is collection of six different stories, all of which contain black and blue comedy content.

The stories concern a firm selling chocolate with human meat; a film-writer who pays the wrong writer; a gang of relatives trying to get money from a dying man; an anti-flu drug which renders people impotent; an accidental baby-snatching; and a butler who thinks he is being hired for a much more dangerous job.

Our Review: Each of these episodes contain content that is not for the faint hearted. However, the series is perhaps most notable for giving Michael Palin and Terry Jones their first major writing project after Monty Python's Flying Circus. Cast members include John Le Mesurier, Warren Mitchell and Anthony Hopkins.

All of the episodes were sadly wiped by the BBC, but Palin and Jones' episode ('Secrets') has survived as a recorded copy. The premise of this episode was later re-worked into a film, Consuming Passions.