British Comedy Guide

Singles

  • TV sitcom
  • ITV1
  • 1984 - 1991
  • 22 episodes (3 series)

The meeting game has more in common with the mating game for Malcolm and Clive and Pamela and Jackie, inhabitants of a singles bar. Stars Roger Rees, Judy Loe, Eamon Boland, Susie Blake and Simon Cadell

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Key details

Genre
Sitcom
Broadcast
1984 - 1991
Channel
ITV
Episodes
22 (1 pilot + 3 series)
Stars
Roger Rees, Judy Loe, Eamon Boland, Susie Blake and Simon Cadell
Writers
Eric Chappell and Jean Warr
Directors
Vernon Lawrence, Nic Phillips and Graham Wetherell
Producers
Vernon Lawrence, Graham Wetherell and Nic Phillips
Companies

Pamela, married for 20 years but now separated, and her recently divorced friend, Jackie, attend a singles' bar as a step towards finding a new relationship. There they meet bachelor market-trader Malcolm and hospital porter Clive, whose wife has left him with three children to raise.

Malcolm's claim to be "big in imports" and Clive's fake profession of "doctor" are exposed by Di, the club's Liverpudlian barmaid, but all the same the girls and guys strike up a friendship which lasts through peaks and troughs. Malcolm and Pamela pair up, as do Clive and Jackie. For the third series, Malcolm is replaced by out-of-work thespian Dennis Duval.

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Studio
Picture
Colour

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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Tuesday 19th June 1984 at 9pm on ITV1

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