End Of Part One – A Soft Soap Opera

April 16, 2022

End Of Part One – A Soft Soap Opera

End Of Part One, the ITV show written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, was always playing with its form, and trying new things. This can be seen even in the newspapers during the run up to the debut of the show in April of 1979. The promotional material and interviews took an interesting tack.

Take this, from the Daily Mirror, on Saturday 14th April, by William Marshall.

Billing it as a ‘soft soap opera’ is a massive misdirect, and quite the commitment to the premise.

Unfortunately, the Liverpool Echo on the same day pretty much ruins the joke in their preview.

But at least the listings carried on the charade.

British, Comedy, Sketch Shows

Andrew Marshall, David Renwick, End Of Part One

<

>

Buy My Books

Proctology: A Bottom Examination

For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

Follow

Re-Casting Keanu

Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…