Is It Legal?
- TV sitcom
- ITV1 / Channel 4
- 1995 - 1998
- 21 episodes (3 series)
Solicitors Lotus, Spackman & Phelps is staffed by an almost entirely inept, but nevertheless well-meaning team - success is not their strongest point. Stars Imelda Staunton, Patrick Barlow, Richard Lumsden, Kate Isitt, Matthew Ashforde and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 1995 - 1998
- Channels
- ITV, Channel 4
- Episodes
- 21 (3 series)
- Stars
- Imelda Staunton, Patrick Barlow, Richard Lumsden, Kate Isitt, Matthew Ashforde, Jeremy Clyde and Nicole Arumugam
- Writer
- Simon Nye
- Director
- Martin Dennis
- Producers
- Beryl Vertue, Hugh Warren and Al Burgess
- Companies
Solicitors Lotus, Spackman & Phelps (of Hounslow High Street) is staffed by an almost completely inept, but nevertheless rather enthusiastic and well-meaning, team.
Headed up by partners Colin Lotus (a young man, hopeless in law but transferred his late father's partnership), Dick Spackman (who isn't especially knowledgable with legal matters but loves sailing, golf and sherry), and Stella Phelps (reasonably talented, but especially prone to mood-swings), the business also comprises office manager Bob (hopelessly in love with Sarah, the delivery girl from the Mr Bappy sandwich bar downstairs), general dogsbody Darren, and the unbelievably lazy and useless secretary Alison ("You're only here because your boyfriend is an estate agent and puts a lot of work our way!").
Additional details
- Production
- Studio
- Camera set-up
- Multi-camera
- Picture
- Colour
Website links
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Tuesday 12th September 1995 at 8:30pm on ITV1
Recording details
- Teddington Studios
- Staines and Walton-on-Thames - Locations