First viewed : 20 June 1983
We come to what I expect to be one of the densest parts of the blog as there was a long gap between finishing A Levels and starting university in October. I know what you're thinking, that I should have found some gainful employment over the summer, and that's probably true but such opportunities tend to be manual and I honestly don't think I was robust enough to do a week's manual work to an employer's satisfaction.
Watching the first episode of The Happy Apple was a classic case of staying with the channel after Coronation Street. It was a seven part sitcom written by Keith Waterhouse based on a play by Jack Pulman. An advertising agency is struggling to come up with the goods until they realise their chavvy young secretary Nancy is the perfect Everygirl for market testing purposes. Of course Nancy has to be kept in her place if the success is to continue.
There was only one series and it's best remembered for providing the breakthrough role for Leslie Ash who'd been treading water since her appearance in Quadrophenia four years earlier. Just months later she was replacing the indisposed Paula Yates as co-host of The Tube. The series also starred Nicky Henson, Jeremy Chld and Peter Hugo-Daly.
In fairness, I spent the summer between A Levels and University on a kind of extended piss-up: United had just won the treble and I earned my beer tokens by helping a cousin fit carpets once or twice a week, and being a combined driver/roadie for my brother's metal band at the weekends. It was a period that in hindsight that I wish I'd appreciated a lot more than I did at the time.
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