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Heartburn Hotel. Image shows from L to R: Duggie Strachan (Clive Russell), Harry Springer (Tim Healy). Copyright: BBC
Heartburn Hotel

Heartburn Hotel

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC One
  • 1998 - 2000
  • 13 episodes (2 series)

Sitcom set in Birmingham's grotty Olympic Hotel, run by ex-Army man and Bucks Fizz devotee Harry Springer. Stars Tim Healy, Clive Russell, Peter Gunn, Zita Sattar, Kim Wall and more.

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Press clippings

Heartburn Hotel did not seem to endear itself to many as it did to me. The BBC's own continuity announcer still calls it Heartbreak Hotel. It is, however, co-written by John Sullivan, who also wrote Only Fools and Horses, so it is an egg worth incubating.

Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 1st July 2000

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