Mrs Merton & Malcolm
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 1999
- 6 episodes (1 series)
Sitcom spin-off from The Mrs Merton Show. Stars Caroline Aherne, Craig Cash and Brian Murphy.
Press clippings
Mrs Merton And Malcolm revisited
The show that stunned the nation.
Anthony C Green, Counter Culture UK, 26th January 2023A look back at Mrs Merton and Malcolm
You may never have heard of Mrs Merton & Malcolm, but It almost became the show that Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash focused on above The Royle Family.
Rhianna Evans, Super Ink, 13th June 2019Mrs Merton And Malcolm (BBC 1), a spin-off from the gas commercial, is an oddity. The life of Mrs Merton (Caroline Aherne) and Malcolm (Craig Cash) looks like a fifties commercial for Mothers Pride but there is a peculiar undertow of unease. It is Malcolm's 37th birthday, but he and his mother both behave as if he were seven. Sometimes they break into song and dance as women in TV commercials used to do when dusting. These Mrs Merton: The Musical moments are high points, but then everything around seems very flat.
God knows what's wrong with bedridden Mr Merton ('He's fine. I say fine, well, he's still in great pain.') Perhaps he's dead. It's the sort of happy household where sooner or later someone is discovered dead.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 23rd February 1999