
Another comedy also has this name.
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 1991
- Channel
- BBC One
- Episodes
- 6 (1 series)
- Starring
- John Gordon Sinclair, Gina McKee and Victor Spinetti
- Writer
- Paul Mayhew-Archer
- Director
- Bryan Izzard
- Producer
- Bryan Izzard
Robert Neilson is a struggling thespian with a vivid imagination; he longs to play Hamlet but will settle for any job. He believes that his big break is just around the corner and manages to get himself in to terrible messes because he is so desperate to act. His fiancée, Sue, is always willing to give him encouragement, even though she doesn't share his confidence, while Desmond, his agent, tries to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
- Production company
- Soundtrack
- The theme tune, An Actor's Life For Me, was performed by Nick Curtis.
- Laugh track
- Live audience
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Thursday 14th November 1991 on BBC One at 8:30pm
- Last new broadcast
- Thursday 19th December 1991 on BBC One at 8:30pm
- Length of episodes
- 30 minutes