Time Of My Life - BBC1 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Genre

Sitcom

Broadcast

1980

Channel

BBC One

Episodes

7 (1 pilot + 1 series)

Stars

Mark Kingston, Amanda Barrie, Andrew Paul, Dudley Long, Rosemary Williams, George Tovey, Cyril Cross, Tony Millan and more

Writer

Jim Eldridge

Director

Martin Shardlow

Producer

Dennis Main Wilson

Company

Ken Archer, 49 years old, has been with the same firm for 33 years but has just been told he is to be made redundant. On the same evening his wife tells him that she is leaving him for a man 20 years her junior!

His two sons are no help in his time of crisis and, after contemplating suicide, he decides to make the best of it. But Ken's luck has run out and things get a lot worse as a series of disasters befall him.

Additional details

Production

Studio

Camera set-up

Multi-camera

Picture

Colour

Soundtrack

Music by Ronnie Hazelhurst from a theme by Noel Coward.

Broadcast details

First broadcast

Tuesday 18th March 1980 at 8:30pm on BBC One