Clochemerle
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two
- 1972
- 9 episodes (1 series)
Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's 9-part adaptation of the French comic novel about the erection of a public convenience in a small village, Clochemerle. Stars Cyril Cusack, Roy Dotrice, Wendy Hiller, Kenneth Griffith, Micheline Presle and more.
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Review - DVD: Clochemerle
The tone is gentler than we're used to from Galton and Simpson, the Beaujolais sun burning away the gloom of Steptoe's scrapyard.
Nick Hasted, The Arts Desk, 19th November 2013The first episode was necessarily a tour of Clochemerle, introducing the inhabitants as they answered assorted calls of nature. The other, too, appeared to be wine and women. It is embarrassingly rich in talent. So much so that the cast list in the Radio Times doesn't bother to mention that the narrator is Peter Ustinov. Possibly the pissoir is by Picasso but they didn't bother to say so.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 19th February 1972