The Knowledge
- TV comedy drama
- ITV1
- 1979
- 1 episode
Jack Rosenthal comedy drama about four trainee London black cab drivers. Also features Nigel Hawthorne, Mick Ford, Kim Taylforth, Jonathan Lynn, David Ryall and more.
Press clippings
I have a vague memory, and I am glad it is not clearer, of being on a Bafta jury when The Knowledge (C4) was up for an award. It lost. I wouldn't recommend jury service to anyone. The programmes are all right. It's the jurors who are impossible.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 20th August 1995Some of the acting was nearly as unsubtle as some of the writing but the thing worked.
Clive James, The Guardian, 30th December 1979The peculiar delight of a Rosenthal script is the glancing illogic, the surreal squiffiness of the dialogue, which makes his conversations feel like an act with a cross-eyed trapeze artist. Just when you think you are home and dry, your grip slips.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 28th December 1979