Outside Edge (1994)
- TV sitcom / comedy drama
- ITV1
- 1994 - 1996
- 22 episodes (3 series)
Gentle relationship-based sitcom set around an amateur cricket club and two very different couples brought together by it. Stars Brenda Blethyn, Robert Daws, Josie Lawrence, Timothy Spall, Denis Lill and more.
Key details
- Genres
- Sitcom, Comedy Drama
- Broadcast
- 1994 - 1996
- Channel
- ITV1
- Episodes
- 22 (3 series)
- Stars
- Brenda Blethyn, Robert Daws, Josie Lawrence, Timothy Spall, Denis Lill, Ben Daniels, Michael Jayston, Jeremy Nicholas and more
- Writer
- Richard Harris
- Director
- Nick Hurran
- Producers
- Paula Burdon and Paul Spencer
- Company
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.
Additional details
- Production
- Location
- Camera set-up
- Single camera
- Picture
- Colour
- Soundtrack
- All music arranged and conducted by Fiachra Trench.
Website links
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Thursday 24th March 1994 at 8:30pm on ITV1
- Most recent repeats
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- Saturday 31st July 2021 at 6:00am on ITV3 - Christmas Special
- Saturday 24th July 2021 at 6:30am on ITV3 - Series 3, Episode 7
- Saturday 24th July 2021 at 6:00am on ITV3 - Series 3, Episode 6