NEVER THE TWAIN
'Never The Twain' is a comedy which seems to have improved with age - it can certainly be regarded as one of ITV's best sitcoms. Excellently written, with Donald Sinden and Windsor Davies
inspired choices as two middle-aged neighbours always
looking to score points off each other, mostly through
very witty verbal putdowns.
- Paul Rance/booksmusicfilmstv.com.
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Never The Twain Main Cast List
Donald Sinden as Simon Peel
Windsor Davies as Oliver Smallbridge
Derek Deadman as Ringo
Teddy Turner as Banks
Maria Charles as Mrs. Sadler
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Never The Twain DVDs available from
booksmusicfilmstv.com - in association with Amazon.co.uk
 Never The Twain - The Complete Series 1 [1981] ~ Donald Sinden, Windsor Davies |
 Never The Twain - The Complete Series 1 ~ Donald Sinden, Windsor Davies |
 Never The Twain - The Complete Series 2 [1982] ~ Windsor Davies
Amazon.co.uk DVD
Review:
Remarkably, the Johnny Mortimer-scripted series Never
the Twain ran to over 50 episodes between 1981 and
1984 on ITV. It starred Donald Sinden as Simon Peel, a
stuffy, upper-middle class antiques dealer who lives next
door to Oliver Smallbridge (Windsor Davies of It
Ain't Half Hot, Mum fame), a working-class lad made
good, also in the antiques trade. As the first series
establishes, theirs is a prickly relationship, not just
because they're rivals in trade but also rivals for the
affections of the middle-aged, comely Veronica. They are
aghast when they discover their respective son and
daughter plan to marry, coming on like the Capulets and
Montagues of Middle England. Never the Twain is
a pleasantly predictable antique of the sitcom variety,
redeemed by Sinden and Davies' gruff, blustery and
persistent antagonism. It depicts a cosy, never-never
world of "dirty weekends", huge suburban
houses, borderline homophobic mirth and reliable puns on
"genes" and "jeans"--the sort of
series in which characters greet surprising news by
spraying a mouthful of tea halfway across the room. Some
will find it barely endurable, others a welcome reminder
of a bygone televisual era before alternative comedy
became the ubiquitous norm.
This DVD contains an episode guide and picture gallery.
--David Stubbs |
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