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Kinvig. Image shows from L to R: Miss Griffin (Prunella Gee), Des Kinvig (Tony Haygarth). Copyright: London Weekend Television
Kinvig

Kinvig

  • TV sitcom
  • ITV1
  • 1981
  • 7 episodes (1 series)

Sci-fi sitcom about Des Kinvig, an electrical repair man who has a Martian encounter and becomes involved in saving Earth. Stars Tony Haygarth, Patsy Rowlands, Colin Jeavons, Prunella Gee, Stephen Bent and more.

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Kinvig. Image shows from L to R: Des Kinvig (Tony Haygarth), Netta Kinvig (Patsy Rowlands). Copyright: London Weekend Television

Key details

Genre
Sitcom
Broadcast
1981
Channel
ITV
Episodes
7 (1 series)
Stars
Tony Haygarth, Patsy Rowlands, Colin Jeavons, Prunella Gee, Stephen Bent, Alan Bodenham, Danny Schiller, Patrick Newell and Simon Williams
Writer
Nigel Kneale
Director
Les Chatfield
Producer
Les Chatfield
Company

Des Kinvig leads a mundane life. Running a back-street electrical repair shop in Bingleton, married to the suffocating Netta and sharing his home with a giant dog named Cuddley, this is one man in urgent need of excitement. It arrives in the form of shapely alien Miss Griffin, who persuades Des to join her on trips to Mercury.

There, they and the 500 year old Buddo team up against an ant-like race called the Xux, who aim to take over Earth by giving humans the power to bend cutlery and by flooding the planet with humanoid robots. But has all this been a figment of Des's imagination, sparked off by UFO discussions with his anoraky friend Jim Piper?

Additional details

Production
Studio
Picture
Colour

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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Friday 4th September 1981 at 8:30pm on ITV1

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