- Title: The Big One
- Date: 5th March 1992
- Summary: DEDDIE TOBERT IS AN UNEMPLOYED COPYWRITER, WHO LIVES ALONE IN A FLAT IN TOOTING. JUST AS WELL, SINCE HER PERSONAL HABITS RANGE FROM KEEPING SHOES IN THE FRIDGE TO EATING SPAGHETTI STRAIGHT FROM THE TIN. JAMES HOWARD IS A BEST SELLING AMERICAN WRITER OF ROMANTIC FICTION. AN OBSESSIVELY NEAT MAN, HE LIKES NOTHING BETTER THAN TO SPEND THE EVENING IRONING HIS SOCKS AND HANGING HIS SHIRTS ALPHABETICALLY. A COMPUTER DADING AGENCY WOULDN'T HAVE THESE TWO IN THE SAME BUILDING, LET ALONE THE SAME FILE. FATE HAS OTHER IDEAS, FOR JAMES HOWARD IS WINGING HIS WAY TOWARDS TOOTING FULL OF EXPECTATIONS OF APPLE-CHEEKED LANDLADIES AND TOASTING CRUMPETS IN FRONT OF A ROARING LOG OF FIRE. PITY REALLY, BECAUSE THERE'S NOTHING APPLE-LIKE ABOUT DEDDIE'S CHEEKS, SHE HATES CRUMPETS, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, SHE HAS FORGOTTEN HE'S COMING. WILL HE STAY? WILL SHE LET HIM?
- Description:One script plus 5 storylines for mike mcshane/sandi toksvig vehicle. English ace copywriter,phyllida,agrees to put up reclusive american romantic novelist,james. But he's not all she expects...a tentative love story.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Hat Trick Productions Ltd.
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:05/03/1992
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s