Season 1 • Episode 6
LatestIt looks like the final curtain call for the duo's stage act. Dobson makes a drastic life change, and Deasey takes the only real option left open to him.
Demob was a short-lived British comedy-drama television series, which screened for one six-episode series in 1993 on ITV. The series was set in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and starred Martin Clunes and Griff Rhys Jones as two ex-army friends who decide to try to form an entertainment act, with the aim of getting work on BBC radio. The series also starred Samantha Womack, Amanda Redman and Les Dawson.
Acting
Clunes and Jones trading pathetic desperation like Olympic gold.
Production
Gorgeous post-war austerity aesthetic on ITV budget.
Writing
Bittersweet scripts that mock and mourn British decline.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Les Dawson's final screen role—he died months after filming completed.
Created by writers who'd lived through actual demob; the humiliation of auditioning for Auntie Beeb is autobiographical venom.
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