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Coast To Coast

  • TV comedy
  • BBC Two
  • 1987
  • 1 episode

One black Englishman who's always wished he was American, and one white American who wishes he wasn't, team up to run a mobile disco. Stars Lenny Henry, John Shea, Pete Postlethwaite, Peter Vaughan, George Baker and more.

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Coast To Coast (BBC2), allegedly a comedy thriller, was, I thought, exhaustingly unfunny. I can quite see how someone, the scriptwriter for instance, thought, "We'll have these two guys in an ice cream van running away from two heavies and it'll be amazingly hilarious." But why does no one ever stop in the middle of something like this and say, "Look lads, it's not working is it? Farewell and may the force go with you."

Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 5th January 1987

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