Kingsley Amis
- English
- Writer
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Missing BBC sitcom episodes' audio recovered
Audio recordings of five missing BBC television sitcom episodes from the 1960s, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, have been found.
British Comedy Guide, 2nd September 2024A Boulting brothers comedy based on Kingsley Amis's bestselling satirical novel. Little satire here, though: the casting of Ian Carmichael as the eponymous hero, with Terry-Thomas in attendance, points to a more broadly farcical intent. The angry young university lecturer Jim Dixon is invited to the house of pompous professor Hugh Griffith for the weekend, where he is acutely accident-prone.
Paul Howlett, The Guardian, 4th January 2018The Green Man is not one of Kingsley Amis's better books but that may not matter as a writer's minor work quite often seems to televise better. Perhaps there is more room for television to move around.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 29th October 1990