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Love 40 New Balls Please Series 1
1st Broadcast 1997 BBC Radio 2
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Synopsis
A musical sitcom about the onset of middle age, with the forty-year-old hero Mervyn.
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Rock ’n' roll sitcom featuring forty-something Mervyn Stutter as the beleaguered ex-hippy fast approaching his sell by date. As well as confronting the normal mid-life crises of expanding waistline and diminishing prospects, Mervyn has to juggle a bizarre and bewildering cast of friends, lodgers and hangers-on. A hilarious take on the journey into middle age, illuminated and illustrated by specially written songs.
Episodes
Episode 1 The 40th Birthday: Goodman makes an offer, and Moira wears the pants.
Episode 2 Half-Decent Proposal: Goodman makes an offer, and Moira wears the pants.
Episode 3 Goodman Deadman: Goodman's assets are frozen, and Mervyn is lost for words.
Episode 4 The Independent: Another Winchester by-election, and Mervyn goes grey.
Episode 5 Tunnel of Love: Yoko finds a bog, Mervyn stands up to be counted.
Episode 6 Midlife Crisis: Merv dives off a wardrobe and Goodman takes a fall.
Cast
Character Actor
- Mervyn Mervyn Stutter
- Not Known Moira Downie
- Not Known Eve Karpf
- Not Known Tony Millan
- Not Known John Challis
- Not Known Gary Martin
- Not Known Sophie Louise Dann
- Not Known Philip Sherlock
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Music composed & Arranged
Comment by Dirk Maggs
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Running Time
30 Minutes
6 Episodes in series
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