John Sullivan (I)

I shall miss Heartburn Hotel (BBC1) very much. [...] I tell you, slip it on at the National Theatre and it would pass as Samuel Beckett.

First Basil Fawlty. Then that frightening woman at the Adelphi, who charged you for sleeping on the floor. Now the darkly funny Heartburn Hotel (BBC1) or, more properly, The Olympic, named in the belief that Birmingham would host the Olympics. An appropriate home for no-hopers. [...] It's like looking down a plug hole and seeing small, bright eyes looking back.

Over Here (BBC1) is about the British and American fliers on the same air-base. And, before you say you've heard that one, you haven't heard John Sullivan, who wrote Only Fools And Horses, tell it. It's funny with black flashes.

Sitting Pretty (BBC1), by John Sullivan, is a warm doughnut for Diane Bull, who is the hot, strawberry jam in the middle. Should I know Diane Bull? She has evidently been on the stage more than TV. A striking comic actress with a putter-putter, two-stroke delivery as if she talked ("Phe-nom-en-al") when you pulled a string at the back. Beautiful dolls are faintly unfashionable and, therefore, to be cherished as rarities.

In Only Fools And Horses (BBC1) Del, the course of whose love-life is littered with sleeping policemen or just policemen, was arrested while about to plight his troth to a strippergram.

I quite enjoyed Citizen Smith but I should mention that he too is an import. Woolfie is the Fonzie of Tooting.