Desmonds

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Desmonds is a British television situation comedy made by Channel 4 between 1989 and 1994. The show was made in and set in Peckham, London, and featured a predominantly West Indian cast.

Produced by Humphrey Barclay, this series starred Norman Beaton as Desmond, a henpecked barber, and Carmen Munroe as his wife. Also featuring was Ram John Holder as Porkpie, who later had his own series, Porkpie after Desmonds came to an end.

The series was very successful, and ended when Beaton died at the age of 60. He had however expressed an intention to retire to Guyana and it may well have been that the series would have ended even if he had not died.

Desmonds came 70th in the 2004 BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom