Comic plays a 1970s PE teacher in the present day Stand-up Mike Bubbins is to play a 1970s PE teacher suddenly supplanted into the present day in a new comedy series. The Life On Mars-style comedy pilot, Mammoth, is one of several new shows announced by BBC Cymru Wales today. The slate includes also includes a new tech-influenced sketch comedy series, Age Of Outrage, following a pilot that aired in February last year, and several short-form shows, Bubbins says of his forthcoming sitcom, which he also wrote: ‘Tony Mammoth is a man from the 1970s who is frozen in time, to be brought miraculously back to life in the modern day.