First viewed : 1987
It's a bit cheeky to include this as I don't think I ever saw a whole episode through. It wasn't that I didn't like it, just that I preferred to be in The Red Lion when it was on and by the time we got a VCR I probably felt that I'd missed too much. It starred Paul Bown as shy bird watcher Malcolm who somehow acquires a lively Scouse girlfriend Brenda ( Emma Wray ). Brenda also came with a bossy sister Pamela ( Liza Tarbuck ) and it came as something of a surprise to me that I could find such a big girl attractive.
It was Tarbuck's TV debut and the springboard for an ongoing media career. Neither of her co-stars have done as well with Bown still working as a jobbing actor and Wray disappearing from public view at the end of the nineties. The series ran from 1987 to 1993.
One of those shows that was a staple of my childhood, due to (again) me mam liking it. That said, I remember finding it pretty funny myself too, possibly due to (even then) relating to the shy, bumbling male lead as being a bit like myself. I was never into bird-watching, though.
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