Nightingales
Comedy about the surreal antics of three security guards working the night shift
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 1990 - 1993
- Channel
- Channel 4
- Episodes
- 13 (2 series)
- Starring
- Robert Lindsay, David Threlfall and James Ellis
- Writer
- Paul Makin
- Director
- Tony Dow
- Producers
- Esta Charkham and Rosie Bunting
Three disparate characters are nightwatchmen in an office block somewhere in Britain. Their night life is surreal to say the least. Anything can happen from a friendly werewolf performing open heart surgery on one of them to an allegorical Mary who turns up pregnant at their door on Christmas Eve.
- Production companies
- Soundtrack
- A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square, by Eric Maschwitz and Manning Sherwin.
Theme music performed by Clever Music. Closing theme sung by Robert Lindsay.
- Laugh track
- Yes, but type unknown
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Tuesday 27th February 1990 on Channel 4 at 10pm
- Last new broadcast
- Wednesday 10th February 1993 on Channel 4 at 10:30pm
- Length of episodes
- 30 minutes
Website links
- There's Nobody Here But Us Chickens - TJ Worthington On Nightingales
TJ Worthington on Nightingales. - IMDb
- Wikipedia
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