Colin's Sandwich
Encyclopedia
Colin's Sandwich was a late 1980s/early 1990s BBC2
sitcom starring Mel Smith
as Colin Watkins, a British Rail
clerk who aspired to be a horror writer. The show was written by Paul Smith
and Terry Kyan
and ran for two series of six episodes (18 October-22 November 1988, 12 January-16 February 1990). In the second series, Mel's character manages to achieve some small successes as a writer.
BBC Two
BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...
sitcom starring Mel Smith
Mel Smith
Melvin Kenneth "Mel" Smith is an English comedian, writer, film director, producer, and actor. He is most famous for his work on the sketch comedy shows Not the Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones along with his comedy partner Griff Rhys Jones.- Early life :Smith's father, Kenneth, was born...
as Colin Watkins, a British Rail
British Rail
British Railways , which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the "Big Four" British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages...
clerk who aspired to be a horror writer. The show was written by Paul Smith
Paul Smith (writer)
Paul Smith is a British television writer best known as creator of the Dawn French series Murder Most Horrid , and as co-creator of the Mel Smith series Colin's Sandwich....
and Terry Kyan
Terry Kyan
Terry Kyan is a British television writer best known for writing .These include sketches/episodes for such sketch shows as Not the Nine O'clock News, Spitting Image and Alas Smith and Jones, as well as the Dawn French black comedy Murder Most Horrid, and the sitcoms The Brittas...
and ran for two series of six episodes (18 October-22 November 1988, 12 January-16 February 1990). In the second series, Mel's character manages to achieve some small successes as a writer.