Season 2 • Episode 7
LatestChelsea are playing Arsenal in the Milk Cup, and as a true blue, Deacon is desperate to be in attendance – by any means necessary!
Bottle Boys is an ITV sitcom produced for two series in 1984-85. Starring Robin Askwith as football-mad milkman Dave Deacon, the series mined comedy of the broadest sort from randy Dave's amorous adventures, in a style familiar to viewers from the Confessions films. However, as well as the sexual innuendo of his earlier big-screen adventures, Askwith was equally likely to find himself embroiled in more off-the-wall exploits, and found himself at various points in the series dressing up as a cow, inadvertently engaged to Sharon the secretary, and meeting then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Acting
Robin Askwith's committed horny desperation.
Production
That cow costume deserves national heritage status.
Writing
Vince Powell's escalating absurdity within sitcom structure.
Creator
Vince Powell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bottle Boys arrived at the tail end of British sex comedy's theatrical dominance, translating the Confessions formula to primetime ITV as attitudes were shifting.
Vince Powell had previously created Love Thy Neighbour and Mind Your Language — controversial hits that make Bottle Boys look almost gentle by comparison.
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