Bottle Boys

7.2

1984•30m

Bottle Boys is an ITV sitcom produced for two series in 1984-85. Starring Robin Askwith as football-mad milkman Dave Deacon, the series mined comedy of the broadest sort from randy Dave's amorous adventures, in a style familiar to viewers from the Confessions films. However, as well as the sexual innuendo of his earlier big-screen adventures, Askwith was equally likely to find himself embroiled in more off-the-wall exploits, and found himself at various points in the series dressing up as a cow, inadvertently engaged to Sharon the secretary, and meeting then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Production

Seasons

6 Episodes • Premiered 1984

1. Fools Rush In

Deacon finds one of his elderly customers poised for a suicide attempt on a windowsill six floors up.

2. God Save Our Dairy

Dawson Dairy is on the rocks, sales are down, and the bank is threatening to force them into liquidation. Deacon organises a petition and the milk roundsmen rally for a fight to save their jobs.

3. Danger, Woman at Work

When old Cyril retires, the boys' noses are put seriously out of joint by his replacement: the stern, no-nonsense Joan Foster! Something has to be done.

4. All in a Day's Work

Jock is off work with the flu. When Deacon and the boys pop by for a visit, they find themselves stuck in a busted lift.

5. One Good Turn

Stan is organising a benefit for a local old folks' home, but, with no one famous on the bill, tickets aren't moving. Deacon, however, has a big-name celebrity on his round...