A Small Problem
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| Starring | Christopher Ryan |
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| Template:Pluralize from text of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
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| Network | BBC Two |
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A Small Problem is a British sitcom originally broadcast on BBC2 in 1987. Intended as a satire on prejudice, and starring Christopher Ryan who had previously played Mike in The Young Ones, the show was set in a Britain with a form of apartheid based on people's height. Anyone below Template:Cvt tall was forced to live in tower-block ghettos south of the River Thames.
The main characters of the show were Howard (Christopher Ryan), a cheerful cinema projectionist always making fun of things and quoting classic movies, but revealed to be in a member of terrorist group Short Liberation Front; Roy Pink (Mike Elles), who at Template:Cvt was previously considered normal height, but with new EEC regulations, he was now considered short as his metric height of Template:Cvt now fell below the new 1.55 m mark, thus relegating him south of the River Thames, whilst he always refused to consider himself short and even insulted other short characters, whilst getting no help for his predicament from his tall brother George (David Simeon), who with his wife Heather (Joan Blackham) were trying to erase him out of their lives; Fred (Dickie Arnold), the elderly head of the tower-block's Residents Association, who with his wife Lily (Christine Ozanne) are trying to make the best of a bad situation, only seeming to be concerned about trivial matters and not the heightist apartheid; Jenny (Cory Pulman), and petition-wielding activist trying to fight the system not to much success; Sid (Big Mick), a conniving dwarf who calls everyone a "dickhead", and Mr. Motokura (Tetsu Nishino), a rich Japanese businessman who came to Britain with his wife (Sayo Inaba) looking to build a factory, but ended up directed to the tower-block and trying to escape with his wife, whilst they struggle to communicate with others as they speak no English.
It was written by actors and comedy writers Tony Millan and Mike Walling. Walling was short himself at Template:Cvt, and one day, whilst walking to Millan's house, had noticed two men, one tall and one short, playing tennis, and how the tall man seemed to have an advantage, so during a brainstorming session, he pitched the idea.[1] The theme tune was written by Mo Foster and Mike Walling.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ricketts, Ben. "A Small Problem". Curious British Telly. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
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- A Small Problem at IMDbTemplate:Edit at WikidataLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- A Small Problem at British Comedy Guide
