Donald Churchill

Critics tend to see the first and last of a series which is like being in on the christening and the funeral. You do miss something. It says outside Thames that I found the first episode charming. Did I? The natural inclination, when your verbals are read out in court like that, is to deny it all hotly. But charm still seemed about right for the last episode last night.

Written jointly by Julia Jones and Donald Churchill, I would say at a guess that they divided the first episode between them for there is a different tone and touch about the two. I particularly enjoyed Miss Pegg, who has the kind of innocence which expects a taxi driver to carry bags and the kind of competence to see he does.

In "A girl's best friend" (BBC1's Comedy Playhouse) the audience appeared to die in the first 10 minutes. This does happen from time to time. They just sit there nicely and politely as if observing 20 minutes' silence for Peron. And I have never known them wrong.