May To December - BBC1 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide

TV sitcom
BBC One
1989 - 1994
39 episodes (6 series)

Middle-aged solicitor Alec Callender meets Zoe Angell, a PE teacher much younger than himself. Despite the age gap, romance soon blossoms. Stars Anton Rodgers, Eve Matheson, Lesley Dunlop, Paul Venables, Frances White and more.

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May To December (1998, Radio 2)

May To December. Image shows from L to R: Alec Callendar (Anton Rodgers), Zoe Angell (Lesley Dunlop). Copyright: Cinema Verity

Genre

Sitcom

Broadcast

1989 - 1994

Channel

BBC 1

Episodes

39 (6 series)

Creator

Paul Mendelson

Stars

Anton Rodgers, Eve Matheson, Lesley Dunlop, Paul Venables, Frances White, Rebecca Lacey, Carolyn Pickles, Kate Williams and more

Writers

Paul Mendelson and Geoffrey Deane

Directors

Sydney Lotterby, Paul Harrison and John Kilby

Producers

Sydney Lotterby, Sharon Bloom and Verity Lambert

Company

Cinema Verity

Solicitor Alec Callender is a dreamer. He longs for cases in the vein of his hero, fictional attorney Perry Mason, but in small-town England rarely gets work more exciting than a mucky divorce.

However, a case of precisely that nature provides the middle-aged widower with excitement in the form of Zoe Angell. At 26, she is less than half of his age - barely older than his son in fact - but shared interests and a similar sense of humour with the young PE teacher sees romance blossom between the unlikely pair. Their families offer differing and wavering levels of support, but love will always find a way - won't it?