Rik Mayall Presents

Dancing Queen (Granada) was the last in the excellent Rik Mayall Presents series. A slow romance set in Scarborough and filmed with such dazzling beauty by David Odd that you wanted to catch the first train to this place of marmalade skies. Like Mayall, poured onto the train with the stripper after a stag night. A tender performance by Mayall and a stunning one from Scarborough.

Briefest Encounter was a two-hander, if you don't count the dog, and it was a considerable achievement on the part of Mayall and Amanda Donohoe to keep it fizzing for 50 minutes. Television expands or contracts to fill the slot available, and, in this case, less might have been more. But I'm not complaining. Do you hear me complain? There are three comedies in this series and two have been crackers. if there is no bang in the third, it will still have been excellent value.