Television
Lewis-Smith has made a number of programmes for British light entertainment television:
- In 1989, he wrote and presented eighteen episodes of Buy-gones for Club X on Channel 4, and contributed scripts for Central's Spitting Image
- Up Your Arts (compiled from his contributions to Channel 4 show Club X; 1992)
- Inside Victor Lewis-Smith (1993) (in which he is a virtually unseen character). This BBC2 series purported to be based within the Frank Bough Memorial Zip Injury Wing of St. Reith's, a BBC hospital for its fallen stars. The series takes place inside the head of a man completely saturated with television, and suffering from a hyperactive spleen.
- TV Offal on Channel 4 (pilot 1997; series 1998)
- TV Offal Prime Cuts on Channel 4; 1999
- Ads Infinitum for BBC2 (pilot 1996; two series, 1998 and 2000)
- Z For Fake for BBC2 in 2001 (8 programmes)
- Here's a Piano I Prepared Earlier for BBC4 (2005, narrator and producer)
- Jake on the Box for BBC4 (2006, narrator and producer)
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