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All Along The Watchtower. Image credit: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

All Along The Watchtower
All Along The Watchtower. Image credit: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

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All Along The Watchtower

An all-but-abandoned RAF early warning station in the middle-of-nowhere, Scotland, is threatened with closure

Genre:
Sitcom
Broadcast:
1999  (BBC One)
Episodes:
6 (1 series)
Starring:
Felix Bell, Chris Lang, Roger Blake, Zoë Eeles, Tony Roper, Tom Watson, Georgie Glen, Michael B. Blair, Linda McGuire
Writers:
Pete Sinclair, Trevelyan Evans
Production:
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

When the RAF's efficiency inspector, Flight Lieutenant Simon Harrison (Christopher Lang), arrives to conduct a review of RAF Auchnacluchnie he finds that the 300-man early warning station, due to some gross administrative oversights, is now being manned and run by just two; Wing-Commander Hilary Campbell-Stokes (Roger Blake) and Airman Tench (Felix Bell) - despite continuing to get provisions for all 300.

Harrison initially writes a damning report recommending closure of the base, but on realising the effect its demise would have on the local village - and after falling for publican's daughter and schoolteacher Eilidh Guthrie (Zoe Eeles) - he files a falsified version. Consequently, the RAF (still in the belief that 300 men are stationed at the site) decide to increase the staff by one, and since he is already in the area, Harrison is told to stay.

Our Review: This sitcom showed promise, but the premise's potential was never fully realised, and due to its ill-publicised, obscurely timed broadcasts (various times on Sunday afternoons/evenings) it never picked up. But we'd still like to see it again!