Patterson
- Radio sitcom
- BBC Radio 3
- 1981
- 8 episodes (1 series)
BBC Radio 3's first sitcom, following blundering lecturer Dr Andrew Patterson. Stars Lewis Fiander, Judy Parfitt, Richard Vernon, John Barron, Hugh Thomas and more.
Press clippings
I suspect the problem [is] the production. Producer Geoffrey Perkins, whose Hitch-Hiker's Guide did for radio what the slicer has done for bread, obviously knows about comedy. But this production of Patterson seemed to deaden what may well have been a promising script. The delivery of nearly all the actors (always excepting Richard Vernon) was wildly over-emphatic.
Val Arnold-Forster, The Guardian, 13th March 1981