... Michael Kitchen as poor Father, falsely impris oned for treason. Father's innate decency ran the length of his ramrod straight back and shone out of his head like a halo. What could the jury have been thinking? Compare and contrast with Kitchen's role ...

... with public appearances, modelling assign ments, book signings and sitting around the unfeasibly clean and probably unused kitchen of his Hertfordshire mansion. We saw him doing all these things with charm and patience, in what was basically the television ...

... When deranged fan and lookalike Ronnie shows up waving a gun Charlotte does the sensible thing and offers her a job in the kitchen. Meanwhile, her brother- in-law is on the roof threatening suicide, having set fire to the priceless John Lennon guitar that ...

... have come up with such a startlingly unoriginal idea (white middle- class family, professional parents, teenage kids, big kitchen table to exchange banter around, etc)? More damning still, would Fred Barron have tolerated the use of such an intolerably ...