Sink or Swim

Dec 04, 1980 (en) [30] Min
  • First Air Date
    Dec 04, 1980
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    60%
  • Original title
    Sink or Swim
  • Release
    Dec 04, 1980
  • en
    -

Overview

Sink or Swim is a BBC TV sitcom from the 1980s with Peter Davison as the lead character Brian Webber. Brian Webber lives in a flat above a petrol station in London. He's trying hard to make his way in the world, thus far with limited success. His girlfriend, Sonia, is a very serious minded young woman who is passionate only about things like vegetarianism and ecology. When Brian's younger brother, Steve, arrives in London looking for somewhere to stay, his lazy, cynical, noisy "Northern lout" attitude disrupts Brian's already messy life. Like Only Fools and Horses, Sink or Swim was filmed in Bristol doubling for London. It ran for three series between 4 December 1980 and 14 October 1982 and was written by Alex Shearer, who later wrote the Nicholas Lyndhurst sitcom The Two of Us for LWT from 1986 to 1990. Production of the sitcom overlapped the first two years of Davison also starring as the Fifth Doctor in Doctor Who, which imposed constraints on the recording schedules.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Gareth Gwenlan

    Producer

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Casts : 4 / Crews : 1

Season 1 ( 1980-12-04)

Series 1, Episode 1

Episode: 1

Series 1, Episode 2

Episode: 2

Series 1, Episode 3

Episode: 3

Series 1, Episode 4

Episode: 4

Series 1, Episode 5

Episode: 5

Series 1, Episode 6

Episode: 6

Series 1, Episode 7

Episode: 7

Season 2 ( 1981-10-22)

Series 2, Episode 1

Episode: 1

Series 2, Episode 2

Episode: 2

Series 2, Episode 3

Episode: 3

Series 2, Episode 4

Episode: 4

Series 2, Episode 5

Episode: 5

Series 2, Episode 6

Episode: 6

Season 3 ( 1982-09-09)

Series 3, Episode 1

Episode: 1

Series 3, Episode 2

Episode: 2

Series 3, Episode 3

Episode: 3

Series 3, Episode 4

Episode: 4

Series 3, Episode 5

Episode: 5

Series 3, Episode 6

Episode: 6
Dec 04, 1980 (en)
[30] Min
  • First Air Date Dec 04, 1980
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato 60%
Original Title Sink or Swim
en

Overview

Sink or Swim is a BBC TV sitcom from the 1980s with Peter Davison as the lead character Brian Webber. Brian Webber lives in a flat above a petrol station in London. He's trying hard to make his way in the world, thus far with limited success. His girlfriend, Sonia, is a very serious minded young woman who is passionate only about things like vegetarianism and ecology. When Brian's younger brother, Steve, arrives in London looking for somewhere to stay, his lazy, cynical, noisy "Northern lout" attitude disrupts Brian's already messy life. Like Only Fools and Horses, Sink or Swim was filmed in Bristol doubling for London. It ran for three series between 4 December 1980 and 14 October 1982 and was written by Alex Shearer, who later wrote the Nicholas Lyndhurst sitcom The Two of Us for LWT from 1986 to 1990. Production of the sitcom overlapped the first two years of Davison also starring as the Fifth Doctor in Doctor Who, which imposed constraints on the recording schedules.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Gareth Gwenlan

    Producer