End of Part One
| End of Part One | |
|---|---|
| Created by | David Renwick and Andrew Marshall |
| Directed by | Geoffrey Sax |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 14 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Simon Brett (Series 1) and Humphrey Barclay (Series 2) |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | LWT |
| Distributor | ITV Studios |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV |
| Picture format | 4:3 |
| Original release | 15 April 1979 – 23 November 1980 |
End of Part One was a British television comedy sketch show written by David Renwick and Andrew Marshall; it was made by London Weekend Television. It ran for two series on ITV, from 1979 to 1980 and was an attempt at a TV version of The Burkiss Way. The first series concerned the lives of Norman and Vera Straightman, who had their lives interrupted by various television personalities of the day. The second series was mainly a straight succession of parodies of TV shows of the time, including Larry Grayson's Generation Game and Nationwide.
The cast included Sue Holderness, Denise Coffey, Fred Harris, Dudley Stevens, David Simeon, and Tony Aitken. Coffey had appeared in The Burkiss Way's first 6 episodes, but Harris was the only permanent cast member to appear in End of Part One. One of the directors was future feature film director Geoffrey Sax.
Marshall and Renwick blamed the show's relative lack of success at its being shown on a Sunday afternoon, lamenting in an interview that it was "a show no-one knows about, at a time no-one would watch it anyway". They decided not to write another series because LWT would not move it to a more favourable time slot.
Some ITV companies did repeat series one at a more favourable time slot.
The complete series was released on 5 November 2012 in a release from Network DVD. All fourteen episodes are included.
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