Outside Edge. Image shows from L to R: Kevin Costello (Timothy Spall), Maggie Costello (Josie Lawrence), Miriam Dervish (Brenda Blethyn), Roger Dervish (Robert Daws). Image credit: Central Independent Television.

Outside Edge

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Outside Edge. Roger Dervish (Robert Daws). Image credit: Central Independent Television.

Outside Edge

Gentle relationship-based sitcom set around an amateur cricket club and two very different couples brought together by it

Genre:
Sitcom
Broadcast:
1994 - 1996  (ITV)
Episodes:
22 (3 series)
Starring:
Brenda Blethyn, Robert Daws, Josie Lawrence, Timothy Spall, Denis Lill, Ben Daniels, Michael Jayston, Jeremy Nicholas, Tracy Brabin, Roy Holder, Nigel Pegram
Writers:
Richard Harris
Production:
Central Independent Television

Based on Richard Harris's stage production, Outside Edge follows the lives of two couples, who bond only through the local cricket league.

Roger (Robert Daws) and Miriam (Brenda Blethyn) couldn't be more different to Kevin (Timothy Spall) and Maggie (Josie Lawrence) but when they are thrown together, Maggie and Mim become good friends and learn from one another. Kevin and Maggie's passionate relationship forces Mim to analyse her own marriage whilst Roger is too busy obsessing over the following week's match.

Harris gently satirises middle class England through the members of Brent Park Cricket Club, all of whom have their own dysfunctional relationships and family problems.