First viewed : November 1977
Unlike Citizen Smith , this new sitcom from the Esmonde- Larbey team never really took flight and has been largely forgotten. At the time of writing it doesn't have a wikipedia entry.
The main character is Ralph ( Richard Briers ) a self-deluding sales rep whose bragging is an attempt to disguise that he's a complete social failure. The one friend he manages to pick up is decent , passive divorcee Brian ( Michael Gambon ) who's attracted to his extrovert behaviour. As a study in male friendship it certainly had its merits but was conspicuously short of belly laughs. Gambon recounts that one BBC exec asked him if there was going to be anything funny in a forthcoming episode.
The series provided Gambon , a highly regarded Shakespearean actor , with his first regular TV role since The Borderers , nearly a decade earlier but household name status was still some way off. The Other One survived for a second series in 1979 but it remained in the shadows.
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