British Comedy Guide

Home Run

  • TV comedy drama
  • BBC One
  • 1989
  • 1 episode

Back in London from abroad, Bill English has it all - smart flat with a river view, flash car and, of course, the beautiful Anna. But he was born and brought up in these parts and everything's changed. Anna asks: "Where are the ghosts Bill?". Stars Michael Kitchen, Corinne Dacla, Keith Barron, Ethna Roddy, Tom Georgeson and more.

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Key details

Genre
Comedy Drama
Broadcast
1989
Channel
BBC 1
Episodes
1
Stars
Michael Kitchen, Corinne Dacla, Keith Barron, Ethna Roddy, Tom Georgeson, Anne Carroll, Terence Hillyer, Georgia Allen and more
Writer
Andy Armitage
Director
Nicholas Renton
Producer
David Snodin
Company

Bill English is a top consultant in management training. He has an expensive car, spacious penthouse and Anna, an attractive French girlfriend. Life looks good. But all this is illusory and Bill starts to realise it.

The past haunts him and he finds that he is trapped within it. His colleagues and girlfriend cannot penetrate his melancholy and Bill grows paranoid. He enters a kind of vengeful madness, inflicting mindless damage on his surroundings and eventually signing his own - not unsought - death warrant.

Additional details

Also known as
  • Screen One: Home Run
Production
Studio
Picture
Colour

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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Sunday 1st October 1989 at 9:05pm on BBC One
Episode length
85 minutes

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