Charters And Caldicott
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 1985
- 6 episodes (1 series)
Comedy starring Robin Bailey and Michael Aldridge as the elderly, cricket-mad, bumbling, crime-solving duo Charters and Caldicott. Also features Caroline Blakiston, Tessa Peake-Jones, Gerard Murphy, Philip Stone and Patrick Carter
Key details
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 1985
- Channel
- BBC 1
- Episodes
- 6 (1 series)
- Stars
- Robin Bailey, Michael Aldridge, Caroline Blakiston, Tessa Peake-Jones, Gerard Murphy, Philip Stone and Patrick Carter
- Writer
- Keith Waterhouse
- Director
- Julian Amyes
- Producer
- Ron Craddock
- Company
Perpetual schoolboys Charters and Caldicott enjoy regular monthly lunches at their Pall Mall club, where they discuss the inadequacies of women, the wonders of cricket and how things simply aren't as they used to be. Strictly public school, they pity people who do not share their backgrounds and interests, and voice prejudiced concerns about the state of the world.
Charters, a widower, lives in a country cottage near Reigate and religiously hails a Green Line bus on the first Friday of every month to meet his chum, Caldicott, at his residence in Viceroy Court, Kensington. However, when a girl's body is discovered at Caldicott's flats, the old buffers find themselves embarking on the trail of a murderer.
Additional details
- Production setting
- Studio
- Picture
- Colour
Website links
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Thursday 10th January 1985 at 9:25pm on BBC One