The Last Song
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two
- 1981 - 1983
- 13 episodes (2 series)
Separated Leo Bannister is happily awaiting his divorce and a quieter life. The last thing he wants is a new relationship with a woman half his age, but that's exactly what he gets. Stars Geoffrey Palmer, Caroline Blakiston, Henrietta Baynes, Gay Wilde, Nina Thomas and more.
Press clippings
Carla's decades of comedy
It's a little more than 30 years since Liverpool's most well-known comedy jewel first came to our screens.
It followed the working class Boswell family struggling through the city's high unemployment and poor prospects in the late 1980s, painting a bleak yet concurrently warm and hopeful picture of life in one of Britain's major cities.
Aaron Brown, BBC, 4th May 2016Carla Lane's The Last Song (BBC2) is a bitter-sweet confection reporting wryly from no-man's-land in the battle of the sexes. It's a sort of marital 'Yes, Minister' in which 50-year-old Leo is the punch-bag for the wife he is leaving and the girl half his age he has shacked up with. So far in the series the women have been shown as terrifyingly predatory and the men as terribly wet. What sustains it is the performance of Geoffrey Palmer. His rumpled, lugubrious countenance is wonderfully expressive, and he speaks his lines with such conviction that it is only when the other actors are hamming it up that one realises how weak much of the dialogue is.
Richard Boston, The Observer, 15th November 1981