Sprout
- TV sitcom
- ITV1
- 1974
- 1 pilot
Darwin Sprout is out of work and can't get a job or a girl because he is too honest. His friend and flatmate, John, hopes to fix that. Stars John Alderton, Julian Holloway, Jenny Cox, Clare Sutcliffe and Geoffrey Chater
Press clippings
With muted cries of rapture let me recommend Sprout (LWT). The situation is Likely Lads minus the fanatical accuracy of ear and observation, but the main character, a bird-fancying no-hoper, is just the job for John Alderton]. After leaving Please Sir, Alderton wasted his gift on a lumbering series called My Wife Next Door, which won prizes only because the prizes concerned were handed out by nitwits. This time he is called upon to invent, and his powers of invention are considerable. At a time when the screen is crawling with unfunny young comedians, John Alderton is a man to value.
Clive James, The Observer, 7th July 1974