Blott On The Landscape
- TV comedy drama
- BBC Two
- 1985
- 6 episodes (1 series)
A land-owning MP attempts to have a motorway built through the grounds of his wife's ancestral home. Stars George Cole, Geraldine James, David Suchet, Julia McKenzie, Geoffrey Bayldon and more.
Press clippings
Blott, as the front titles and rude music attest, was intended to be a seaside postcard. It is extraordinary that rational people could have worked on this serial for months without feeling a frightful sense of premonition. The same sensation that swept Oates when he first clapped eyes on his spavined ponies.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 28th February 1985The temptation to set off sideways like this suggests that I don't much fancy the way ahead. Blott on the Landscape is a brisk whisking of sex and violence, say Lady Chatterley's Lover and World War II, into heartless farce. I rather wonder if black farce is at home on television. The audience is, which may be the trouble.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 7th February 1985