Mother's Ruin
- TV sitcom
- ITV1
- 1994
- 6 episodes (1 series)
At 50, bachelor Leslie Flitcroft is still under his mother's thumb. Together they have a health shop with the ambiguous name of Nurse Nature. Stars Roy Barraclough, Dora Bryan, Julia Deakin, Kay Adshead, Jason Done and Bernard Latham
Press clippings
Mother's Ruin (Granada), a farce set in a health food shop, is like a clip round the ear with a wet herring. It makes you roll your eyes a bit. Apart from Roy Barraclough, punting away with his foot to keep the thing afloat, and his assistant Brucella (Julia Deakin) - so aptly named after bacteria and a martyr to sinusitis - I would consider this half an hour of my life lost. A sensation which often sweeps over me at bus stops.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 30th May 1994