The Mighty Boosh: Season 3

Come with us now on a journey through time and space...
Vince Noir and Howard Moon return for a third series of this cult hit. Now working in Naboo's second hand shop, 'Nabootique', Howard mainly whiles away the hours in delusions of grandeur whilst unsuccessfully trying to sell his esoteric jazz records, while Vince lays around in a hammock playing loud music, trying on wigs and finding Howard ludicrous. They assemble their usual accomplices, including Naboo the enigma and Bollo the ape, reunite us with some familiar faces including The Hitcher, The Moon and Bob Fossil, as well as introduce us to a whole host of new characters.

Eels - Naboo and Bollo are off on the Head Shaman's stag do, leaving Howard and Vince in charge of Nabootique. The duo challenge one another to a sales contest, each trying to sell their latest fads, Elbow Patches and The Indie Celebrity Radar. Things are going pretty well until an unexpected visit from the evil cockney Hitcher. After summoning Elsie Queen of Eels, The Hitcher demands protection money from the boys, but this is money the boys just don't have...

Journey To The Centre Of A Punk - In an attempt to impress his new punk mates, Vince rebelliously bites Howard's rare jazz record. Unbeknown to Vince however he has bitten off more than he can chew as the corruptive Jazz Beast enters his blood stream. As Vince's life hangs in the balance, Naboo has no alternative but to shrink Howard and his jazz companion Lester Corncrake down to the size of a pea and send them into Vince's body to locate and kill the invasive cell. Can they kill the Jazz Beast before it kills Vince?

The Power Of The Crimp - Vince and Howard are distraught to learn they've had their style stolen by The Flighty Zeus. As The Flighty Zeus' popularity rages amongst the kids, The Boosh find themselves increasingly pushed out. The boys hope to regain their popularity with the invention of a new dance craze, Crimping, but with a massive face-off planned at The Velvet Onion, will Crimping be enough to win back their reputation?

The Strange Tale Of The Crack Fox - Whilst putting the rubbish out, Vince befriends the Crack Fox, inviting the poor soul into Nabootique for some hot soup. However, the Crack Fox is not as he seems and after knocking Vince out with his potent smell, he vanishes with Naboo's most precious possession, a bottle of Shaman Juice. Punishment for the loss of the juice is death and whilst Naboo awaits his fate on Shaman Death Row, it's left to The Boosh to recover the juice and destroy the evil Crack Fox once and for all.

Party - It's Howard's birthday. Reluctant to celebrate, Howard finally succumbs to Vince's plan for a huge party. With Bollo on the door, Saboo and Harrison on the decks and Vince's uber-trendy friends on the dance floor, the party really starts to hot up. That is, until someone is caught in a compromising position with the Head Shaman's wife in Naboo's stock room.

The Chokes - Vince is MC-ing a night at the Velvet Onion, to be headlined by The Black Tubes. Keen to fill the shoes of their recently deceased front man, Vince goes to immense lengths to get into their obligatory drainpipe jeans, but at what price? Meanwhile Howard takes acting lessons from Montgomery Flange in an attempt to overcome his stage fright and secure work with director Jurgen Harbourmaster, but will he miss out to Sammy the crab? Guest stars: the British garage rock band the Horrors as The Black Tubes.

Directed by Paul King
Produced by Spencer Millman
Executive Produced by Henry Normal, Lindsay Hughes, Simon Wilson

"Easily the freshest comedy on TV... The Mighty Boosh looked kaleidoscopically beautiful"  - Telegraph

"Charming, audacious and genuinely innovative"  - The Times

"I can't get enough of their absurd eccentricity ... the dialogue, the bizarre incidents and the cool costumes ensure this comedy's place among the truly surreal ... inspired..."  - Simon Horsford, Daily Telegraph

"It's all as wilfully, spikily surreal and cartoonishly daft as ever, but the adventures of Howard and Vince (Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding) remain bizarrely enjoyable."  - Ceri Thomas, London Evening Standard

"Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt's universe is like a psychedelic Narnia dreamt up by David Lynch. Fielding is a kind of glam-rock pixie and Barratt a downbeat intellectual ... This world happily embraces part-flamingo pop stars, songs about eels in painful places and Barratt's Elite Elbow Patch Collection."  - Ian Johns, Observer

"...this is part Alice in Wonderland, part Terry Gilliam cartoon with added nonsense ... Amazingly, once you start watching, all this will actually make sense."  - Critics' Choice, Sunday Times

"As brilliantly weird as ever."  - Will Dean, Guardian

"The Mighty Boosh is the most out-there show on the box."  - Tim Jonze, Guardian

"...oddly compelling..."  - Daily Mail

"...sweetly surreal and freely imaginative comedy."  - Gerard Gilbert, Independent

"Surreally brilliant."  - Mail On Sunday

"As always, it has a skewed logic that means it all makes its own hilarious sense - and it ends with a frightful early contender for the Christmas No 1."  - Gabrielle Starkey, The Times

"Mighty mental, mighty fine."  - Garry Bushell, Daily Star Sunday

"...superbly surreal (and deeply studenty) adventures..."  - Adrian Pettet, Sunday Express

"You either love The Mighty Boosh for its childish weirdness or it leaves you stone cold."  - Jane Simon, Daily Mirror

"The Mighty Boosh are such a good idea, aren't they? A tall man who looks like an unwashed sleepy weasel. A short man who looks like a shark wearing lipstick with fashion-risk hair. Doing random things. In vintage. On prime time. In our lifetime. What a result ... Being in the Boosh looks a blast. I mean, if you have to write a sitcom, you'd want to do it Boosh-style: what with their home-made puppets, and deadly serious musical numbers, and getting Noel Fielding's brother, who can't act for toffee, to play a key character, just because they want him around. With the Boosh's hypnopompic reasoning, you can follow a classic, formally structured gag (‘There's no smoke without fire..' ‘What about smoke machines?') with a sequence in which Julian Barratt gets sucked into a Cockney's top hat, and then dances with a dead woman. The freedom and scope is, like, wheeeee! ... Essentially, it's Open All Hours, as painted by Richard Dadd ... The Boosh is obviously the kind of thing that will still be repeated in ten years' time. It's clearly the kind of thing talking heads will be quacking about on I Love 2007." -  Caitlin Moran, The Times

• The Mighty Boosh, BBC