Clips And Ladders

We’ve looked at the sitcom Snakes And Ladders before, written as it was by the brilliant Marks And Gran, and co-starring Adrian Edmondson. Here’s how the first episode of the series was reviewed by James Green in The Stage, on the 12th October 1989 (just a few days before the writers’ other sitcom, Birds Of A Feather, debuted on BBC One).

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