Outside Edge
Prunella Scales and Paul Eddington star as Roger and Miriam in this early 1980s TV production of Richard Harris's 1979 cricket-relationship play
- Genre
- Comedy Drama
- Broadcast
- 1982
- Channel
- ITV
- Episodes
- 1
- Starring
- Paul Eddington, Prunella Scales, Maureen Lipman, Jonathan Lynn, Michael Pennington, Deborah Grant, Gary Waldhorn, Leslie Ash and Cecil Humphreys
- Writer
- Richard Harris
- Director
- Kevin Billington
- Producer
- Graham Benson
A disparate band of middle-aged couples, with nothing more in common than the male halves' wish to play a cricket match, are brought together in a heady sun-splashed environment of surprising tension, back-biting, typically English understatement and marital woe.
As team captain Roger ostensibly tries to get the team organised for the afternoon's fixture, his players and their partners fight over all manner of subjects - but there's a far bigger secret lurking beneath the surface of this calm English cricket pitch.
- Production company
- Laugh track
- None
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Sunday 19th December 1982 on ITV at 9pm
- Episode length
- 105 minutes