A 'Who's Line Is It Anyway' spin-off, or at least a similar idea anyway, 'S And M' is an entirely improvised show featuring only Tony Slattery and Mike McShane aired in 1991 on UK TV Channel 4. Famous sketches included the "two peas in a pod" epic, the "rejected dating video messages" and their own version of Star Wars.

I spotted this show when going through my Girlfriends pile of home-taped VHS tapes as they were being sorted & thrown away in 2014. Everything else was pretty much worthless (they were mostly TV-shown films), but I looked this up and and found out that it had never been given a proper release, or even a bootleg release, although there are some odd short clips on YouTube. Each of the seven shows were complete from start to finish (including the advert break), as well as being excellent quality. To transfer the tapes, I used a JVC HR-S7600EK S-VHS PAL VCR, connected to a PC with an ASUS ES2-750 'My Cinema' TV Tuner card via an S-Video cable and Left & Right audio phono leads. The full tape was captured to an AVI file using VirtualDub 0.9.6 with the Huffyuv 2.1.1 video codec and uncompressed WAV audio. From that I used Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.1 to edit the video (leaving the hard interlace as it was originally captured) using the packaged MainConcept MPEG-2 Encoder for the MPEG2 M2V encode, and Wav To AC3 Encoder 5.0 for the AC3 audio. The M2V & AC3 files were then multiplexed together with ImagoMPEG-Muxer 1.1 giving the final MPEG2 files. I used GIMP 2.8.8 to design the DVD cover, which then made the disc artwork & DVD menu screens background simple as they were assembled using many of the same edited graphical elements. To add to the nostalgia factor, all seven episodes are each preceded by the original Channel 4 ident intro. Adobe Encore DVD 1.5.1 was used to author and assemble the final dual layer DVDs.

While I didn't watch this TV show at the time, and it's not hugely my thing today as it's a little dated, I thought some of it was quite funny and worth my time preserving for all the other fans out there, along with being an interesting graphical project. If you're interested in any of my fanmade projects, you can contact me via email at , or through the Rob's Nostalgia Projects Facebook page. Check out & 'like' that Facebook page to see the latest in-progress updates to any current projects, and check out my Wants List to see if you can assist me with any future projects or upgrades.