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Director:
Brian Farnham
Writer:
Gerard Macdonald (writer)
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Release Date:
6 January 1988 (UK) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
A six-part drama series set in an advertising agency. It focuses on Sarah Copeland, a rising copywriter who is pitching for a prestigious account... more
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User Comments:
Ad enough? Not really. more (1 total)

Cast

  (Series Credited cast)
Penny Downie ... Sarah Copeland
rest of cast listed alphabetically:

Miles Anderson ... Paul Copeland
Rosalind Bennett ... Rose Thompson
Diana Blackburn ... Jane Malcolm
David Cardy ... Stephen Hallam
Jeremy Clyde ... David Postgate
Camille Coduri ... Carol Braithwaite
Charlotte Coleman ... Kim Greenbank
Peter-Hugo Daly ... Clayton Yock

Alison Doody ... Receptionist
Fraser Downie ... Mike Sutherland
Robbie English ... Daniel Copeland
Kate Lynn Evans ... Helen Marriott
John Fortune ... Warren Greenbank
Josie Lawrence ... Linda Prentice
Caroline Lee-Johnson ... Dee Vincent
Stephen Mann ... Nick Faulds
Tony Matthews ... Geoffrey Talbot

Rebecca Pidgeon ... Sally Byfleet
Gary Waldhorn ... Gordon Lochhead
Thomas Wheatley ... Francis Salk
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Additional Details

Runtime:
UK:50 min (6 episodes)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Company:
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) more

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Ad enough? Not really., 12 February 2002
Author: Buck Aroo

This series, along with another called Gems, focused on the emergence of the Yuppie and capitalist entrepreneur during the eighties in London. The episodes followed a tried and tested format, whereby a number of character's are linked to a common situation or place, from which we follow their lives and intimate pastimes. Penny Downie plays Sarah, a high flying single mother, who is a partner in an up-and-coming ad agency. We watch as she struggles with guilt, between her career, and the upbringing of her daughter. She also has a dilemma about choosing between the man in her life at that moment, and her ex-husband played by Gems actor Steven Mann, who seems to drift in and out of her life at inopportune times.

We also get to see the funny and often seedy lives of some of the employees at the agency, including the stressed-out copywriter played by John Fortune (of Bremner, Bird & Fortune), and the ditzy girlfriend of one of the partners, portrayed by the late Charlotte Coleman.

There is a little social commentary, when Sarah has doubts about the way in which a nurse is portrayed in a very important campaign (of the title), which shows the 'Angel' as a confident, highly motivated icon. When in fact, she is demorallised, underpaid, and considering leaving the NHS. This, the partners decide, would cause great embarrassment if it got out to the press. Sarah then seeks out the nurse at her bedsit, in order to convince her to stay at her job. But discovers that she too is a single parent, only without the luxuries that Sarah enjoys.

All in all, it was a well crafted pleasant series, which did not outstay it's welcome. It's a shame that another one wasn't commissioned.

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