He is Alan's main antagonist during the first two series and like Alan he is quick to anger.

Alan's late brother, Mark, was a political activist in the 1960s, later a film producer ; his first cousin is musician / songwriter Donald Fagen, co-founder of the group Steely Dan.

Alan's next appearance was in a 1999 half-hour special filmed for Comic Relief in which Alan started to lose the plot, foreshadowing his mental breakdown in the second series of I'm Alan Partridge.

The daughter of Alan's next door neighbor and love interest, Christy Fimple ( Kirsten Dunst ), buys Chip as a birthday present for her brother Timmy.

One of Alan's daughters, Dervorguilla, had married John, 5th feudal lord Balliol, he and Dervorguilla being parents of King John I of Scotland ( 1292 – 1296 ), and the people, out of affection for Alan's daughter, were lukewarm in support of Robert the Bruce.

* Brigitte Kahn as Frau Kleist MEP, who shares Alan's office for most of Series 4.

Alan's vengeful, bisexual wife who equalled Alan in his capacity for adultery and deviousness.

Sir Greville had his first dealings with B ' Stard in this episode who implied he would expose him unless he agreed a similar arrangement for B ' Stard, and thus became a suspect for the audience in Alan's shooting at the episode's climax.

By the time of Alan's ' Miraculous recovery ', Sir Greville had been promoted by Thatcher to Minister for Law and Order and negotiated with Alan for the return of the gallows ( earning himself a finder's fee of £ 50, 000 ).

Alan has little respect for him and is more than willing to exploit Sir Stephen's helpful and professional nature for his own ends, including plagiarising one of Sir Stephen's speeches in the Commons in order to ensure that Alan's Private Member's Bill on arming the police would pass into law.

Roland is seen in only series 1 but after Alan's shooting Sarah is seen on the phone to her father, the two of them asking each other if they were responsible for the crime.

By the end of the series the change is virtually complete ( up until the last episode he / she was still sporting a full mustache ) but he / she still does the odd favour for Alan, including seducing the Secretary of State for Wales ( while he was still technically a man ) and posing as Alan's wife during dinner with an American fast-food tycoon.

Alan, however, always exploits his power over Sidney, and thus Sidney often acts as Alan's henchman, for example helping him dump nuclear waste in Roland's coal-mine.

Ocelot's share price collapses and the company is forced to file for bankruptcy, and Alan's marriage ( such as it is ) is saved.

# Sex is Wrong ( September 27, 1987 ) – Piers Fletcher-Dervish, Alan's aristocratic and mentally challenged officemate, joins the Campaign for Moral Regeneration, a group dedicated to battling pornography, but Alan ( who proclaims himself a libertarian on the subject ) is uninterested in joining, until Piers tells him that they regularly view samples of the material they are fighting.

# Waste Not, Want Not ( October 4, 1987 ) – One of Alan's old moneymaking schemes comes back to haunt him when Norman, his transsexual accountant, tells him that the depot in Hull where he left a shipment of Argentine nuclear waste he was hired to dispose of is scheduled for demolition.

The amendment seems well on its way to passing, despite the entreaties of the Chief Whip, but Alan's plan is mooted when Piers accidentally lets slip to Georgina the real reason for Alan's interest in the Marshes.

", Alan is dismayed when Victor Crosby, a man even further to the right than he, wins a by-election in Accrington and quickly becomes the new darling of the party, placed on the fast track for the Cabinet by Sir Greville and awarded Alan's weekly column in the Daily Express.

When Crosby reaches for a pen to sign, his right hand is caught in the trap, and he ends up using his left hand to sign the card ( at Alan's suggestion ) " From Your Newest Recruit ".

Upon learning that his money is gone, Penistone becomes violent and has to be bought off with the keys to Alan's Rolls-Royce Corniche, which leads to his demise when he triggers a car bomb intended for Alan.

Julius's wife, Alan's mother, was Ethel Sara ( née Stoney ; 1881 – 1976 ), daughter of Edward Waller Stoney, chief engineer of the Madras Railways.

One of Alan's most notable works was one he modeled after Boethius ’ Consolation of Philosophy, to which he gave the title De Planctu Naturae, or The Plaint of Nature, and which was written most likely in the late 1160 ’ s.

The Garner family had passed on " a genuine oral tradition ", teaching their children the folk tales about The Edge, which included a description of a king and his army of knights that slept under it, guarded by a wizard, and in the mid 19th century, Alan's great-great grandfather Robert had carved the face of a bearded wizard onto the rock of a cliff next to a well that was known in local folklore as the Wizard's Well.

Alan's own grandfather, Joseph Garner, " could read, but didn't and so was virtually unlettered ", but instead taught his grandson the various folk tales about The Edge, with Alan later remarking that as a result he was " aware of Edge's magic " as a child, when he would often play there with his friends.

In the reality of Superman & Batman: Generations, the Guardians revealed that Alan Scott's power ring was actually a Green Lantern ring despite its apparent weakness to wood after Hal Jordan successfully harnessed it against Sinestro, realising that the ring actually had no weaknesses except what the user believed it possessed ; the Green Lantern Corps were vulnerable to yellow only because they believed the Guardians when they were told about this weakness, and Alan's ring's weakness to wood was caused when he was taken by surprise and struck on the back of the head with a wooden block during his first time using the ring.

This was because of " poor scheduling " ( the show was aired at the same time as the News at Ten ) and Alan's PA, Lynn, claimed that " the ratings started poorly and went downhill from there ".

One of his guests was the ( fictional ) director of programming at the BBC, Tony Hayers ( later to become Alan's nemesis, played by David Schneider ).

This was presented by Ray Woollard ( Peter Baynham, who had appeared previously in I'm Alan Partridge as the voice box using executive from the boat holiday company in " Watership Alan ") and " Digital Dave ", and was basically a sycophantic look at Alan's career, past and present ; the credits listed it as being executively produced by Alan himself and produced by his company, Apache Productions.

Alan's younger brother Colin Clark was a writer and filmmaker.

The subsequent plot follows Singleton's effort to regain her past, and Alan's efforts to find out what the real story of the murder was.

Alan's death brings nearly the entire town together, in a way that could not have happened while he was still alive.

In the stage show, Alan's involvement in the death of David Kelly was also hinted at.

Piers was essentially a very kind-hearted and hard-working MP, albeit one who rarely spoke in the house and was completely under Alan's control.

Usually Piers was conned into Alan's schemes through trickery or bullying although he would inevitably cock up the simplest of instructions.

It was Piers ' intervention in Alan's fake shooting that led to B ' Stard being sentenced to death and his ability as a lover that helped persuade Sarah to rescue Piers and abandon Alan in Siberia.

( In the first series, Sarah was having a lesbian affair with Alan's constituency agent and public relations manager, Beatrice Protheroe, whom she had known at school.

Brian then takes Alan to ' Mr Nigel's shop ', where Alan's middle-aged style crisis goes from bad to worse as he purchases an extremely bold Hawaiian shirt.

In the final episode, Tony Hayers died after a fall from a roof, and one of Alan's old friends, Chris Feather, took over as head of programmes at the BBC.

In the early 1030s Alan III, Duke of Brittany began expanding his influence from the area of Rennes and appeared to have designs on the area surrounding Mont Saint-Michel After sacking Dol and repelling Alan's attempts to raid Avranches, Robert mounted a major campaign against his cousin Alan III.

He extorts money from Alan with the help of Alan's old business partner.

Upon Alan's release from the gulag and return to the UK, Piers ( tipped to become the next Chancellor of the Exchequer ) lived in fear of the vengeful B ' Stard.

One column mentioned how after Alan's divorce from his wife ( a sub-plot of the original stage show ), the ex-Mrs B ' Stard " came over all dead ".

After talking with his father who is kidnapped while on the phone with Jet, Jet is digitized by Ma3a, Alan's AI computer system, to aid her against Thorne, an executive from fCon improperly digitized into the computer who is now a virus throughout the system.

After Kay's divorce from Gaston, she became engaged to a society playboy, Alan Ryan Jr. She promised Alan's family that she would not return to the stage – a promise that lasted only a few months before she was back on Broadway as an aviatrix in a Rachel Crothers play, Venus.

Alan's son Randy, now grown, is Driver's law partner, and a 2006 storyline focused on Randy's campaign for the judicial seat from which his father is retiring, ensuring that the " Judge Parker " name will continue.

For example, when Alan Scott slashed Mordru's abdomen open with an energy sword, the sorcerer was able to heal the injury in seconds before ripping the Starheart from Alan's body.

Strangely, it was unable to control Alan Scott even though he experienced fear from Parallax ( Abin Sur explains that in humans fear is intellectual, which may have something to do with the ineffectuality of Parallax's powers and the fear entity itself mentioned that Alan's power differs from the fear entity, the Guardians, and the Green Lantern Corps as they derive their powers from emotional spectrums ), although he did experience a fever which led him to increasingly weaken during Parallax's attempts.

In To Kill A Mocking Alan, the fifth episode of the first series, Cook pulls out at the last minute from a planned guest spot on Alan's live show, ' An Afternoon With Alan Partridge ', which has the twin effects of seriously rattling Alan's nerves and causing half his audience to walk out before the show begins.

In this tale, Robin rescues Alan's sweetheart from an unwanted marriage to an old knight.

Michael, believing that Alan has finally " outed " himself when he makes his call, realizes that Alan's wife is the caller when he grabs the phone away from Alan.

Despite her insistence that she believed Bill was not responsible for her kidnapping, Lizzie's faith in Bill began to wain and she slowly turned into Alan's pawn, distancing herself from Bill.

Les and Alan are a team that are always there to add a bit of bass and bang to another person's singing ( apart from Talent Trek when they were replaced by a camp criminal backing group called " Right Said Frank ", of which Alan's father is a member ).

The marriage is known from Roger of Hoveden's Chronica, which recorded that in 1200 Donnchadh: The marriage bound Donnchadh closer to the Anglo-French circles of the northern part of the region south of the Forth, while from Alan's point of view it was part of a series of moves to expand his territory further into former Gall-Gaidhil lands, moves that had included an alliance a few years earlier with another Firth of Clyde Gaelic prince, Raghnall mac Somhairle ( Rǫgnvaldr, son of Sumarliði or Somerled ).