Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown (1993)
32m
Running Time
April 22, 1993Release Date
Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown (1993)
32m
Running Time
April 22, 1993Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
When the lead star of 'The Gourmet Detective' mystery show is mysteriously bumped off. A bunch of various detectives from television shows from the seventies are teamed up with a television detective of the nineties to solve the crime.
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Cast & Crew.
Keith Allen
Bonehead/Gourmet Detective / Director / Writer
Peter Richardson
Foyle/Jason Bentley / Writer / Director
Jim Broadbent
George
Phil Cornwell
Dave Spanker
Jim Carter
Commander
Gary Beadle
Ronnie
John Forgeham
Sergeant
Sara Stockbridge
Sonia
Virginia Fiol
Mandy
Michael White
TV Executive / Executive Producer
Mark Caven
TV Producer
Howie Nicol
TV Director
George Antoni
Writer
Doon Mackichan
Journalist
Emma Bernard
Journalist
Jimmy Fagg
East End Drinker/Landlord
Details.
Wiki.
Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown is a short comedy film made by The Comic Strip for the BBC, first broadcast in the UK in 1993.
The film employs techniques of metafictional parody to make overt critical comparisons between 1990s TV detective shows and their 1970s counterparts. The editorial line taken throughout the film presents a very affectionate portrayal of several of these 1970s shows, despite acknowledging their use of styles and methods that had since become somewhat clichéd.
The title parodies the title of the 1988 film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.