Situation Tragedy by Simon Brett

Author:Simon Brett [Brett, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
Published: 2012-03-31T13:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

West End Television Ltd,

W.E.T. House,

235–9 Lisson Avenue, London NW1 3PQ.

18th June, 1979.

Dear Charles,

I thought I’d just drop everyone a note after recent events to assure them that, in spite of problems you all know about, everything is okay on The Strutters front and all of us here are still confident we’ve got a very exciting property on our hands.

Until recently we weren’t certain whether Rod Tisdale was going to write the remaining scripts in the series or not. He was undecided about it. Obviously now the decision has been made for us, and I am delighted to be able to announce to you that the rest of the series will be written by none other than Willy and Samantha Tennison! I’m sure you’re familiar with their work from hosts of successful sit coms, but if your memory needs any nudging, let me just mention such series as Flat Spin, Daisy and Jonathan, Your Turn, Darling, Oh, What a Pair of Au Pairs! and that charming show set in a cookery college, Oh, Crumbs!

Willy and Sam are delightful people and great chums and I’m sure will be absolutely right for The Strutters. I’ve asked them to come along to our next read-through, so that we can all get a chance to meet up.

Thank you, incidentally, for your continuing hard work on the series. We really have got a smashing cast and I think that’s one of the most important ingredients in a really exciting show. Let’s put our troubles behind us and look forward to the success The Strutters is inevitably going to be!

With the warmest good wishes,

Yours sincerely,

Peter

PETER LIPSCOMBE

Producer The Strutters

When Bob Tomlinson arrived at the Paddington Jewish Boys’ Club Hall for the next read-through the following Wednesday and found Willy and Sam Tennison holding court, he said he was going out for a sandwich and would come back in half an hour, by which time everyone had better be ready to start work.

The atmosphere of the second read-through had cleared, and everyone seemed a lot more cheerful. Rod Tisdale’s death, apart from shattering Charles Paris’s murder theories, had not had much effect. He had been such an unobtrusive person to have around that his absence was hardly remarked at all.

And any void he might have left was more than filled by Willy and Sam Tennison. They were a roly-poly little pair of writers, a married couple who that day affected patchwork shirts and matching yellow jeans. They were awfully affectionate and flirtatious with each other all the time, and talked in a manner very similar to the scripts of their sit coms. Since most of their success had been based on a series of interchangeable shows which dramatised the small happenings of their own lives, this was hardly surprising.

The viewing public knew everything about them. Their student lives in adjacent flats had hit the screen in the hilarious form of Flat Spin. The early days of their marriage had been chronicled in the series Daisy and Jonathan. The

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