Outside Edge (1982)
- TV comedy drama
- ITV1
- 1982
- 1 episode
Prunella Scales and Paul Eddington star as Roger and Miriam in this early 1980s TV production of Richard Harris's 1979 cricket-relationship play. Also features Maureen Lipman, Jonathan Lynn, Michael Pennington, Deborah Grant, Gary Waldhorn and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Comedy Drama
- Broadcast
- 1982
- Channel
- ITV
- Episodes
- 1
- Stars
- Paul Eddington, Prunella Scales, Maureen Lipman, Jonathan Lynn, Michael Pennington, Deborah Grant, Gary Waldhorn, Leslie Ash and Cecil Humphreys
- Writer
- Richard Harris
- Director
- Kevin Billington
- Producers
- Graham Benson and Nick Elliott
- Company
A disparate band of middle-aged couples, with nothing more in common than the male halves' wish to play a cricket match, are brought together in a heady sun-splashed environment of surprising tension, back-biting, typically English understatement and marital woe.
As team captain Roger ostensibly tries to get the team organised for the afternoon's fixture, his players and their partners fight over all manner of subjects - but there's a far bigger secret lurking beneath the surface of this calm English cricket pitch.
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- Studio
- Picture
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Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Sunday 19th December 1982 at 9pm on ITV1
- Episode length
- 105 minutes