30 minSeason 4 • Episode 7
LatestMartin suddenly finds out that the Personnel Department's plans to extend their office will threaten his own office space. He decides to say nothing, but events take a strange course.
Martin Bryce lives in a quiet suburban close with his wife Anne. He does his best to "organise" the leisure time of all of the other inhabitants of the close, running umpteen societies and doing "good works". He's is quite happy with his lot until Paul Ryman moves in next door.
Acting
Briers' masterpiece of twitchy, desperate self-delusion.
Writing
Esmonde & Larbey's surgical precision with social humiliation.
Creators
John Esmonde, Bob Larbey
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Richard Briers hated Martin so much he nearly quit; the writers had to convince him the character's suffering was the joke.
This is basically British Seinfeld before Seinfeld—about nothing, everything, and the horror of being noticed.
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