Searching
- TV sitcom
- ITV1
- 1995
- 7 episodes (1 series)
Carla Lane sitcom starring Prunella Scales as the head of Sunfield Voluntary Therapy Centre, a place for young women with special psychological needs. Also features Julia St. John, Victoria Carling, Clare Cathcart, Regina Freedman, Robert Gwilym and more.
Press clippings
Carla's decades of comedy
It's a little more than 30 years since Liverpool's most well-known comedy jewel first came to our screens.
It followed the working class Boswell family struggling through the city's high unemployment and poor prospects in the late 1980s, painting a bleak yet concurrently warm and hopeful picture of life in one of Britain's major cities.
Aaron Brown, BBC, 4th May 2016Searching turned up on ITV at half past nine, and in a rare insight into the tricks of my trade, I am willing to disclose that for the first time in my reviewing life, I made no notes, being transfixed by Searching's weird emptiness, not to mention its wilful absence of jokes.
Lynne Truss, The Times, 9th June 1995Prunella Scales presides over a bunch of misfits who seem permanently to inhabit her living room. Most have had bad experiences with men, which is par for the Lane course, though this does not stop them ogling the visiting male therapist. The writing is often sharp but the direction of the show is so far unclear.
The Times, 8th June 1995