Cradle To Grave: Trailer, certificate and where to watch
Growing up in south London in the 1970s, with Peter Kay's wheeler-dealer dad
Year: 2015
Certificate: 15
Written by radio personality Danny Baker with Jeff Pope (Stan & Olllie, Archie), this coming-of-age comedy drama is based on Baker's autobiography Going To Sea In A Sieve, with Laurie Kynaston (The Doll Factory) starring as the teenage Danny, the youngest of three siblings. But it's Peter Kay who steals the show, as Danny's Del Boy dad Fred Baker, or Spud as he's known to anyone who matters. A London docker whose profession, as well as his many less-than-legal side hustles, is on its last legs, Spud is a real character. Danny's mum Bet (former EastEnder Lucy Speed) holds her own beside Kay, as a housewife yearning to go legit and run the kind of household that drinks wine.
It's sepia-tinged in the colours of the decade - a lot of oranges and browns - but the show is more than well-dressed nostalgia, it also feels current and timeless, with storylines about growing up and family that ring true in any decade.
It's set in Bermondsey, but that part of London is so gentrified today it would be impossible to re-create the 1970s on location, so the series was in fact filmed in Manchester. (Eight episodes)
