High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alas Smith and Jones was a British comedy sketch television series featuring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. It was broadcast on the BBC from 1984 to 1998. From 1989 to 1992 and 1995 to 1998, it was called Smith and Jones. The series followed in the footsteps of Not the Nine O'Clock News in its use of taboo- breaking material and sketches in questionable taste (as well as bad language), and also featured head-to- head 'duologues' between Smith and Jone ...