Cool It is a British television comedy series which first aired on BBC Two between 30 August 1985 and 18 December 1990. It was a vehicle for comedian Phil Cool. Impressions ranged from political and important figures such as Robin Day, Roy Hattersly, Arthur Scargill, Neil Kinnock, The Pope and Ronald Reagan to popular celebrities, comedians and musicians such as Mick Jagger, Bryan Ferry, Mike Harding, Terry Wogan, Billy Connolly, Clive James, Rik Mayall and the disgraced Rolf Harris. Fictional characters like Quasimodo, Bugs Bunny and E.T were also impersonated and even inanimate objects such as Morris Minors and Volkswagen Beetles. Series 1 The first series of three, 25-minute episodes were first broadcast between 30 August and 13 September 1985, on Fridays at 10pm. Cool wrote all of the material for this series himself, it was made on a shoestring budget with few props, a basic set and a small audience. Jasper Carrott was associate producer on this series. Highlights included; impersonating the entire cast of The Young Ones including Alexei Sayle, Prince Charles interviewing Mick Jagger, the Pope ordering Fish and Chips, Rolf Harris painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Mike Harding singing the song "Spewie, Ewie" and Quasimodo singing "The Bellringer's Blues". Each series of Cool It had a different set of opening titles, for Series 1 it had an animated version of Cool's head pulling various faces behind a light-blue background. Series 2 The second series of five, 30-minute episodes were first broadcast between 24 November and 22 December 1986, on Mondays at 9pm. Cool co-wrote this series with Jasper Carrott and it later won the Royal Television Society Award for "Most Original Television Achievement". Series 2 featured a bigger set with a bigger audience, there were more props and a few pre-recorded video inserts. To tie in with the show, Cool released a comedy album through Virgin Records called "Not Just a Pretty Face" and a single in which Cool (as Rolf Harris) sang a rendition of the Simon and Garfunkel song "Bridge Over Troubled Water". A tie-in book was also released entitled Cool's Out. Highlights included; Rolf Harris (literally) painting the audience, an anecdote in which Cool reminisced about the time he imitated the face of an Aquaphibian from Stingray & it stuck and portraying Terry Wogan as an Intergalactic Alien from Outer Space. Harmonica to find 5 animated versions of Cool jumping Up and Down