Goodbye, Mr Kent

Goodbye, Mr Kent is a BBC comedy television series of seven episodes, which first aired from 28 January to 11 March 1982. But it was a flop, despite starring Richard Briers and Hannah Gordon.

Goodbye, Mr Kent
GenreComedy
Written by
  • Peter Robinson
  • Peter Vincent
Starring
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes7
Production
ProducerGareth Gwenlan
Running time30 minutes
Production companyBBC
Release
Original networkBBC One
Original release28 January (1982-01-28) –
11 March 1982 (1982-03-11)

Recently divorced Victoria Jones with young daughter Lucy takes in a boarder to pay the bills. But her boarder, the wayward and slobbish but charming journalist Travis Kent, sponges off her and tries to woo her.

It was produced by Gareth Gwenlan, and written by Peter Robinson and Peter Vincent.

It was remade in West Germany in 1985 as Die Nervensäge and went on for 26 episodes. Peter Vincent and Peter Robinson wrote all of them. Episode 1 to 7 where remakes of the BBC shows, episode 8 to 26 were exclusively written for Germany. Dieter Hallervorden played the main character who was not called Kent but Willi Böck.[1]

Cast

References
  1. Goodbye, Mr Kent at IMDb


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