Solo
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 1981 - 1982
- 13 episodes (2 series)
Sitcom about Gemma Palmer, a newly single girl intent on making her own, independent way in the world, with varying degrees of failure. Stars Felicity Kendal, Stephen Moore, Elspet Gray, Debbie Wheeler, Stella Goodier and Michael Howe
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 2016Solo: The Complete Series on DVD (Link expired)
As such, Solo is a sitcom of some integrity, albeit not many big laughs; a mature and thoughtful slow-burner before Lane's sitcoms became a miasma of battle-of-the-sexes bitterness and hysterical caricatures, and an interesting addition to the specifically English, middle class genre of the 'sadcom' where the mass of men - and women - lead lives of quiet desperation...
James Gent, Tachyon TV, 5th May 2012