Duty Free (TV series)
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| Duty Free | |
|---|---|
| Format | Sitcom |
| Starring | Keith Barron Gwen Taylor Joanna Van Gyseghem Neil Stacy |
| Country of origin |  United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Yorkshire Television |
| Running time | 21x30 minutes 1x60 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ITV |
| Original run | 13 February 1984 – 25 December 1986 |
| External links | |
| IMDb profile | |
| TV.com summary | |
Duty Free is a British sitcom written by Eric Chappell and Jean Warr that aired on ITV from 1984 to 1986. It was made by Yorkshire Television.
[edit] Cast
- Keith Barron - David Pearce
- Gwen Taylor - Amy Pearce
- Joanna Van Gyseghem - Linda Cochran
- Neil Stacy - Robert Cochran
- Carlos Douglas - Waiter
- Bunny May - Hotel manager (series 1)
- George Camiller - Hotel manager (series 2 and 3)
- Ray Mort - George (series 1 and 2)
- Hugo Bower - Zimmerman (series 1)
[edit] Plot
Duty Free is about two British couples, David and Amy Pearce and Robert and Linda Cochran, who meet while holidaying at the same Spanish hotel and the interruptive affair conducted by David Pearce and Linda Cochran during their break. Another recurring character is the hotel waiter Carlos.
Although set in Spain, the show was filmed entirely in a Leeds studio - only for the concluding Christmas special was the budget found to film some scenes in Spain.
Like many British sitcoms, there was a class-related tension between the two; with the Pearces working class socialists from Yorkshire, and the Cochrans a more affluent, middle-class Conservative couple from Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. The character of David Pearce, much to his wife's chagrin, became uncomfortable with his own status and politics after meeting the Cochrans and tried to change his outlook.
[edit] Trivia
The actor Frazer Hines and television presenter Judith Chalmers made guest appearances on the show, playing themselves. The former was a hotel guest who tried to seduce Amy Pearce; the latter was filming an episode of Wish You Were Here...? from the hotel and interviewed the two couples.
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