All Night Long - BBC1 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Genre

Sitcom

Broadcast

1994

Channel

BBC 1

Episodes

6 (1 series)

Stars

Keith Barron, Dinah Sheridan, Angus Lennie, Janis Winters, John Phythian, Jacqueline Reddin, Robert McKewley, Paul Grunert and Maureen Beattie

Writers

Dick Fiddy and Mark Wallington

Director

Harold Snoad

Producers

Harold Snoad and Justin Sbresni

Company

Bill Chivers is an ex-convict who having learnt bakery in prison is determined to "go straight". Helping Chivers at the bakery is a motley crew consisting of Vanda, an illegally employed Romanian who is a better baker than her boss; Scottish Tom, a confused man prone to boasting that he 'was once the shortest man ever to work for British Rail'; and Courtney.

Much of the action centres around the visitors to the bakers, they include Clare, a wheelchair-bound crime writer; Wally, a shady mini-cab driver; Terry, a stripper; and coppers PC Digby and WPC Jackson.

Additional details

Production

Studio

Picture

Colour

Broadcast details

First broadcast

Friday 15th July 1994 at 8:30pm on BBC One