Misadventures of an unsuccessful playwright who is forced to make ends meet by writing screenplays, of which only the worst ever seem to get made into films.
Show Details:
Start date: Apr 1977
End date: Feb 1979
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): BBC Two (UK)
Run time: 50 min
Episodes: 12 eps
Genre(s): Comedy
End date: Feb 1979
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): BBC Two (UK)
Run time: 50 min
Episodes: 12 eps
Genre(s): Comedy
Credits:
- regulars:
- George Cole as Gordon Maple
- Gwen Watford as Mabel Maple
- Francis Matthews as Tom Lawrence
- Clare Walker as Kate Maple
- Ron Emslie as Wilfred Maple
- Daphne Heard as Mrs. Field
- Renny Lister as Jenny Lawrence
Episode list & details from:
TVmaze
| Episode # | Original Air Date |
Titles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | |||
| 1. | 1-1 | 18 Apr 77 | Lesser Known English Dramatists |
| 2. | 1-2 | 25 Apr 77 | Thundering Hooves |
| 3. | 1-3 | 02 May 77 | The Tasting of the Wine |
| 4. | 1-4 | 09 May 77 | A Friend in Need |
| 5. | 1-5 | 16 May 77 | First Night |
| 6. | 1-6 | 23 May 77 | Going Up in the World |
| Season 2 | |||
| 7. | 2-1 | 18 Jan 79 | Enter Hitler |
| 8. | 2-2 | 25 Jan 79 | Exit Goering |
| 9. | 2-3 | 01 Feb 79 | In Place of Our Advertised Programme |
| 10. | 2-4 | 08 Feb 79 | The Greening of Gordon |
| 11. | 2-5 | 15 Feb 79 | Götterdämmerung |
| 12. | 2-6 | 22 Feb 79 | We're Going to Maxim's |