All Along the Watchtower (TV series)

Infobox television
show_name = All Along the Watchtower


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genre = Sitcom
runtime = 30 minutes
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starring = Chris Lang
Roger Blake
Felix Bell
Tony Roper
Zoë Eeles
country = United Kingdom
network = BBC One
first_aired = 28 February
last_aired = 11 April 1999
num_episodes = 6
imdb_id = 0190170

"All Along the Watchtower" is a British sitcom that aired on BBC One in 1999. About a RAF base in Scotland, it was written by Pete Sinclair and Trevelyan Evans.

Cast

*Chris Lang - Flight Lieutenant Simon Harrison
*Roger Blake - Wing-Commander Hilary Campbell-Stokes
*Felix Bell - Airman Tench
*Tony Roper - Iain Guthrie
*Zoë Eeles - Eilidh Guthrie
*Tom Watson - Douggie Maclaggan
*George Glen - Mrs Mulvey

Plot

The series focuses on Flight Lieutenant Harrison, a young up-and-coming RAF officer, whose job it is to recommend RAF bases for closure. The latest on the list is Nuclear Command Bunker no. K553/44FS, a massive concrete Cold War facility, which looms over the isolated Scottish fishing village of Auchnacluchnie. However, he finds to his horror that the base, rather than being staffed by 300, actually only has the eccentric, obtuse and war-ready Wing-Commander Campbell-Stokes and his gauche junior Airman Tench. All the other staff have been siphoned off over the years and never been replaced, resulting in RAF Auchnacluchnie receiving the full quota of supplies for its supposed population: leaving Campbell-Stokes and Tench to eat from 50 litre tins of baked bins and make tea from 100,000 bag boxes of tea-bags.

The startling state of affairs is considered just as bad from the local villagers, who consider the base an English establishment foisted upon them, and Harrison decides to file a report recommending its closure. Meanwhile, he becomes smitten with Eilidh, the pub landlord's beautiful daughter, who singlehandedly runs the local school and whose boyfriend, the impressively muscular and unseen Hamish, is working away on an oil rig. Realising that closing the base will impact upon the village's school, which only stays open because Eilidh pretends she cares for the children of the 300 base staff, he falsifies the report. But, much to his horror, he is posted to the base permanently.

Episodes

External links

* [http://www.phill.co.uk/comedy/allalong/index.html "All Along the Watchtower"] at British TV Comedy Resources