Small Potatoes (1999 TV series)

Small Potatoes
Genre	Sitcom
Written by	Richard Pinto Sharat Sardana
Directed by	Paul Duane
Starring	Tommy Tiernan Sanjeev Bhaskar Omid Djalili
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	13
Production
Producer(s)	Richard Pinto
Running time	25 minutes
Production company(s)	Hat Trick
Distributor	Channel 4 Sales
Release
Original network	Channel 4
Picture format	576p SDTV
Audio format	Dolby Digital Stereo
Original release	9 November 1999 – 11 September 2001

Small Potatoes is a British sitcom television series written by Richard Pinto and Sharat Sardana, first broadcast on Channel 4 from 1999 to 2001. Starring Tommy Tiernan, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Morgan Jones and Omid Djalili, it is set in east London and follows the life of a video rental shop employee, Ed Hewitt, and his friends.

Synopsis

Underachieving twenty-something Ed Hewitt (Tommy Tiernan) has a media studies degree, but works in a video shop in Leytonstone; however, he tries not to descend to the level of his layabout friends and fellow workers.^[1]

Episodes

Small Potatoes ran for 13 episodes over two seasons.^[2]

• Sick (9 November 1999)
• Sexuality (16 November 1999)
• Staff (23 November 1999)
• Scrubber (30 November 1999)
• Secrets (7 December 1999)
• School (14 December 1999)

• Alien (31 July 2001)
• Jimminy Critic (7 August 2001)
• Butch (14 August 2001)
• Blackout (21 August 2001)
• Unbearable Whiteness of Being (29 August 2001)
• Club (4 September 2001)
• Sad Max (11 September 2001)^[3]

References

1. Hat Trick Productions: Small Potatoes
2. IMDB: Small Potatoes (TV Series 1999–2001)
3. BFI Film & TV Database