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Mrs Merton and Malcolm
Mrs Merton and Malcolm is a British black comedy sitcom produced by Granada Television for BBC One, first broadcast from 22 February to 29 March 1999. Written by Caroline Aherne, Craig Cash and Henry Normal, it stars Aherne as Dorothy Merton and Cash as her adult son Malcolm, with Brian Murphy as family friend Arthur Capstick.
A spin-off from The Mrs Merton Show, the series is set in Heaton Norris, Stockport, and follows Mrs Merton and Malcolm’s tightly controlled daily routine, punctuated by visits from Capstick and Mrs Merton’s one-sided bedside conversations with her largely unseen, bedbound husband. Steve Coogan provides recurring voiceover roles throughout the series and appears on-screen in the final episode.
The main characters were Mrs. Dorothy Merton (Caroline Aherne) and her son Malcolm (Craig Cash), who live together in Heaton Norris, a suburb of Stockport in Greater Manchester, with the bedridden and almost invisible Mr Merton.
Each episode follows a very strict format, following the course of a single day. Mrs Merton and Malcolm have a conversation over the breakfast table at the start, and at the end she puts him to bed and then has an eerie one-way "conversation" with the silent Mr Merton. The events of the episode prove so exhausting or over-exciting for Malcolm that his mother always offers to ring work for him and get him the following day off.
The central event of each episode is the visit from friend of the family Arthur Capstick, played by UK sitcom veteran Brian Murphy, who mentions something to Mrs Merton (usually about the death of a neighbour) and then forgets he's said it. He has a cup of tea and is offered a snack, but dithers over which one to have, despite the fact that "they're all the same, Arthur". He then says he will pop up to see Mr Merton, but forgets to go and has to be prompted. He takes with him some type of traditional sweet treat for Mr Merton, and sits beside the bed and entertains him somehow.
In episode 3, Mr Capstick goes upstairs to see Mr Merton before he has his cup of tea. After he has his tea, he says he will go upstairs to see Mr Merton, so this radical diversion from the routine is too much for him in his senile state.
Steve Coogan is a constant presence, providing the voices for an unctuous disk jockey and Malcolm's motivational tapes, and also appearing in the last episode as the vicar. Mr Malik the chemist appears in several episodes, played by Rashid Karapiet.
The show is characterised by a strange persistence of attitudes and fashions apparently preserved from decades earlier. Malcolm is 37 and has the personality and interests of a child, although not a contemporary one: he likes building model aeroplanes. The implication is that the characters have been trapped in a timewarp since the late 1960s, and that this is probably as a result of Mrs Merton's firm insistence that things should stay as they are, even if we must occasionally make an effort to stay in touch with the present: "People don't want trifle in the 90s," as she puts it.
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Mrs Merton and Malcolm
Mrs Merton and Malcolm is a British black comedy sitcom produced by Granada Television for BBC One, first broadcast from 22 February to 29 March 1999. Written by Caroline Aherne, Craig Cash and Henry Normal, it stars Aherne as Dorothy Merton and Cash as her adult son Malcolm, with Brian Murphy as family friend Arthur Capstick.
A spin-off from The Mrs Merton Show, the series is set in Heaton Norris, Stockport, and follows Mrs Merton and Malcolm’s tightly controlled daily routine, punctuated by visits from Capstick and Mrs Merton’s one-sided bedside conversations with her largely unseen, bedbound husband. Steve Coogan provides recurring voiceover roles throughout the series and appears on-screen in the final episode.
The main characters were Mrs. Dorothy Merton (Caroline Aherne) and her son Malcolm (Craig Cash), who live together in Heaton Norris, a suburb of Stockport in Greater Manchester, with the bedridden and almost invisible Mr Merton.
Each episode follows a very strict format, following the course of a single day. Mrs Merton and Malcolm have a conversation over the breakfast table at the start, and at the end she puts him to bed and then has an eerie one-way "conversation" with the silent Mr Merton. The events of the episode prove so exhausting or over-exciting for Malcolm that his mother always offers to ring work for him and get him the following day off.
The central event of each episode is the visit from friend of the family Arthur Capstick, played by UK sitcom veteran Brian Murphy, who mentions something to Mrs Merton (usually about the death of a neighbour) and then forgets he's said it. He has a cup of tea and is offered a snack, but dithers over which one to have, despite the fact that "they're all the same, Arthur". He then says he will pop up to see Mr Merton, but forgets to go and has to be prompted. He takes with him some type of traditional sweet treat for Mr Merton, and sits beside the bed and entertains him somehow.
In episode 3, Mr Capstick goes upstairs to see Mr Merton before he has his cup of tea. After he has his tea, he says he will go upstairs to see Mr Merton, so this radical diversion from the routine is too much for him in his senile state.
Steve Coogan is a constant presence, providing the voices for an unctuous disk jockey and Malcolm's motivational tapes, and also appearing in the last episode as the vicar. Mr Malik the chemist appears in several episodes, played by Rashid Karapiet.
The show is characterised by a strange persistence of attitudes and fashions apparently preserved from decades earlier. Malcolm is 37 and has the personality and interests of a child, although not a contemporary one: he likes building model aeroplanes. The implication is that the characters have been trapped in a timewarp since the late 1960s, and that this is probably as a result of Mrs Merton's firm insistence that things should stay as they are, even if we must occasionally make an effort to stay in touch with the present: "People don't want trifle in the 90s," as she puts it.