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Nick Vivian (writer)
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30 August 1999 (UK)
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Oddball black comedy, with VERY strange humour
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Warren Clarke | ... | Vernon Jones |
| Nick Berry | ... | Colin Dunbar |
| Neil Pearson | ... | Julian |
| Robert Daws | ... | Oscar |
| Sue Devaney | ... | Gaynor |
| Emily Morgan | ... | Susy |
| Biddy Hodson | ... | Fay |
| Mark Frost | ... | Wayne |
| Jody Watson | ... | Louise |
| Bobby Windebank | ... | Adrian |
| Michael Cole | ... | Gavin |
| Nick Hutchison | ... | Harris |
| Geoffrey Beevers | ... | Dr. Littleton |
| Chris McHallem | ... | Detective Sergeant Hall (as Christopher McHallem) |
| Stephen Churchett | ... | Mr. Haines |
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The Mystery of Men is a strange little piece that will have done little to explain the mystery - or even which particular mystery the title refers to. The comedy is at times hilarious, at others so black as to be distinctly uncomfortable - and the ending was just plain strange.
The story concerns three drinking partners, at a pub named the Oasis of Sanity. Vernon (Warren Clarke) is a depressive English teacher, going through the motions of life with little notion as to why. Julian (Neil Pearson) is the boss of a struggling regional advertising agency, while Oscar (Robert Daws) is a successful sales executive. Colin (Nick Berry) is the landlord of the pub.
Colin suggests a bizarre scheme - they all take out life insurance, with the others as beneficiaries, so that whoever lives the longest, gets rich. They all go in for this, even Vernon - a depressive, overweight, heavy-smoking drinker.
The programme then follows the unbelievable sequence of events that follows on from this. Without revealing any of the plot, the incidents involve adultery, deceit, three broken marriages, head injuries and a broken leg, a bankruptcy, serious burns to one protagonist, the destruction of the pub and finally a particularly gruesome death.
The humour varies between comical - the reaction of Vernon to the attempts by a student to seduce him - and thoroughly black, including the closing eulogy by the vicar at the funeral of the dead man. Occasionally uncomfortable, so long as your sense of humour veers to the darker end of the spectrum, this is an engaging way to pass 90 minutes.