Colin's Sandwich

Name: Colin's Sandwich
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 6
Cast: Mel Smith, Louisa Rix, Mike Grady, Annette Crosbie, Nicholas Ball

1988

★★★☆☆ 6.0/10

📺 2 Seasons

🎬 12 Episodes

📅 Ended

🌐 EN

⏱️ 30 min/episode

Comedy

Colin's Sandwich is a British sitcom broadcast on BBC2 in 1988 and 1990 which stars Mel Smith as Colin Watkins, a British Rail clerk who aspired to be a horror writer. The show was written by Paul Smith and Terry Kyan and ran for two series of six episodes. In the second series, Colin manages to achieve some small successes as a writer.

Seasons

Season 1

1988 • 6 Episodes

We meet Colin at the end of what has very clearly been a very long evening spent in the company of Jen's friends. He's none too excited with the friends have a going away party shortly afterwards but perks up when he overhears an editor, John Langley, saying he is looking for new writing talent. Opportunities to present himself as a potential talent to Langley are plentiful but he blows each and every one of them.

Season 2

1990 • 6 Episodes

The Langley Book of Horror is finally published with Colin's story included. One of the publishing staff has recommended his story to an award winning film director, Alan Hunter. Meanwhile whilst Colin is celebrating, Jen has been made redundant but does not want to spoil Colin's festivities and doesn't tell him for several days.