Series 1, Episode 1 - Sex, Lies and Videotape
Peter's nervous of how to handle a client, and his mortgage application, after discovering that he is gay. Meanwhile, a misplaced Valentine's card sends mixed messages across the office.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 2nd June 1997
- Time
- 8:30pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
Press
The Peter Principle (BBC1), astonishingly from the blue chip production company Hat Trick, is a vacant farce about an incompetent bank manager. [...] Like the toad which wears a precious jewel in its head (don't try and check on this, children), The Peter Principle has the brilliant Jim Broadbent. Broadbent was the best Marie Antoinette I ever saw. And Marie Antoinette, let me tell you, was funnier than this.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 3rd June 1997
Jim Broadbent has gone from a major role in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway to a starring role in The Peter Principle, a television sitcom so archaic and predictable that even he, wondrously gifted comic character actor that he is, cannot save it.
Matthew Norman, !nspired, 3rd June 1997
