The Sharp End - BBC1 Comedy Drama - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)
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Episodes
8 (1 series)
Stars
Gwen Taylor, James Cosmo, Philip Martin Brown, Clare Kelly, Rachel Egan, Gaynor Faye, Steve Money and Tom McGill
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Fiona Finlay and Ian R. Wallace
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When her father dies, Celia Forrest inherits more than she expects. Among the items handed down is a crummy debt collection agency, which is on its last legs. Faced with a choice of letting it close or running it herself, Celia opts for the latter, a woman bravely entering a man's world, as rival tallyman Andy Barras happily informs her.
He's not the only one who thinks Celia may be biting off more than she can chew: her teenage daughter, Wendy, and her mum both frown upon the move. Still, Celia has plenty of spirit. With young Crystal as her secretary and a dyslexic former debtor named Carmichael - with whom she fails to see eye to eye - as her leg man, she intends to succeed.
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First broadcast
Friday 12th April 1991 at 9:30pm on BBC One