80's comedy

[barbary]

This one has bugged me for years. An early 80's comedy about a man who has a classic mid life crisis and decideds to drop out from normal society.

He ends up with other misfits living in his house and I think one of them has a plan to travel the world on top of a giant ball.

I also had it in my mind there was a very early part for Mark Williams (Fast Show) in it but looking at his entry on IMDB I can see nothing that fit.

Can anyone help??

[Danny]

Re: 80's comedy

I think it sounds like the early episodes of Lame Ducks before Lorraine Chase joined the series.
As I recall he set off to be a hermit but picked up various eccentrics as the storyline went along

[barbary]

Re: 80's comedy

I think it sounds like the early episodes of Lame Ducks before Lorraine Chase joined the series.
As I recall he set off to be a hermit but picked up various eccentrics as the storyline went along

Yep I think your dead right. Now I have seen a picture of John Dutine that is the actor I remember being the main character. Clearly I was wrong about Mark Williams unless it was such an early role he was uncreditied.

[sixtyten]

Re: 80's comedy

I remember Lame Ducks as being extremely unfunny for a comedy.
Probably only watched it for Lorraine Chase