Maureen Beattie played a Romanian exile in bakery sitcom All Night Long
A delve into the listings to unearth some jogged a lot of memories on Genome's and channels. Here's a round-up of comedies from those days which failed to make it beyond one series...
nominated (pictured above), a 1994 comedy set in a round-the-clock bakery which starred Keith Barron as a reformed burglar and other characters including a Romanian migrant called Vanda. It was on air for just six episodes.
, meanwhile, says he was a big fan of (pictured below), and is "still gutted" a second series never materialised. The comedy was set at a remote RAF early warning base in a remote part of Scotland, where the news that the Cold War is over hasn't quite hit home.
Another offering from Scotland was , a caper about the cabin crew of an airline which starred Alan Cumming and mentioned by . While it may not have been forgotten, the show only lasted one series plus a pilot episode.
Kevin Ryan contacted us on Facebook suggesting , a comedy from the tail end of the 1990s dealing with the romanic entanglings of four people in their twenties. It came from Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks, who write the mighty Birds of a Feather - but this one failed to take flight.
The creators of Father Ted came back with sitcom Hippies, but it was canned after just six episodes and a critical basting. Starring Simon Pegg, the take on 1960s culture was remembered fondly by , while said: "The hype machine suggested Hippies would be Fawlty-meets-Blackadder - what we got (though good) could never match the marketing."
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Scottish offering All Along The Watchtower failed to develop past series one