| Ever Decreasing Circles | |
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.jpg) Opening titles of Ever Decreasing Circles | |
| Genre | British sitcom |
| Created by | John Esmonde Bob Larbey |
| Based on | Hiccups (stage play) |
| Directed by | Sydney Lotterby (13 episodes) Harold Snoad (14 episodes) |
| Starring | Richard Briers Penelope Wilton Peter Egan Stanley Lebor Geraldine Newman |
| Opening theme | Prelude No. 15 from Twenty-four Preludes, Op. 34 |
| Composer | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 27 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC1 |
| Release | 29 January 1984 – 24 December 1989 |
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Ever Decreasing Circles is a British sitcom which ran on BBC1 between 1984 and 1989, consisting of four series and one feature-length special. It was written by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, and it reunited them with Richard Briers, who had starred in their previous popular sitcom The Good Life.[1]
It was made toward the end of a run of British comedies focussing on the aspirational middle class, with The Guardian describing it as having "a quiet, unacknowledged and deep-running despair to it that in retrospect seems quite daring".[2]
- ^ "BBC - Comedy Guide - Ever Decreasing Circles". Archived from the original on 23 June 2004.
- ^ "The cricket match in Ever Decreasing Circles". The Guardian. 19 March 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2022.