80s TV drama with yuppies and a lion

[thunderlizard]

The lion is a "must-have" requirement.

re lion, yuppies and Thatcher metaphor: I only have a couple of dimly-remembered taster clips to go on, but I reckon the lion mainly ate homeless people and not a yuppie-based diet.

[eliquant]

It sounds like DROP THE DEAD DONKEY on channel 4.

a satire on new / journalism set in London with a dark comedy slant, something in the back of my mind makes me think of a news item with a lion that was in one espisode.

[Board Game Geek]

What is the name of this TV drama I'm thinking of? I was too young to stay up and watch it at the time and I want to find it. Set in the 80s (but might have aired in the 90s). It was mainly about a load of yuppies in London but its distinguishing feature was there was a lion roaming round London at night eating people.
or did I just dream it?

Chimera ? : SPOILER ALERT

[Gonzo]

I think the majority of people on here would be classed as yuppies, IT contracting is a typical yuppie profession.

You are right. I have met several in person and can confirm that Board Game Geek is the epitome of the 1980s yuppie.

NickFitz on the other hand lives somewhere called the midlands and I have heard that that they don't have any aspirations up there. I don't know for sure because I don't like to go further north than London Wall, it's uncivilized and unsafe out there.

[thunderlizard]

I don't think it was Drop The Dead Donkey (saw a lot of that anyway).

On yuppies: I was a kid in the industrial north, so to me that category would have included anybody white-collar in London. Don't think it was Chimera either - is that the one that had a scene with a very hairy baby in an incubator?

[RichardCranium]

I think the majority of people on here would be classed as yuppies, IT contracting is a typical yuppie profession.

How can a contractor be 'upwardly mobile'?

Surely only permies can be yuppies?

[thunderlizard]

Don't think it was Chimera either - is that the one that had a scene with a very hairy baby in an incubator?

nope - I was thinking of First Born

[RichardCranium]

its distinguishing feature was there was a lion roaming round London at night eating people.
or did I just dream it?

Was it this?