The nearest that the Cliff Hanger Theatre company, of Pete McCarthy, Robin Driscoll, Rebecca Stevens and Tony Haase got to mainstream success, following their cult hit It Came From Somewhere Else on Channel 4. Surreal, and almost deliberately unprofessional in production, script and acting, Mornin' Sarge added grumpy Paul Brooke to the company as the eponymous Sergeant in a London police station. The incompetent coppers limped through cases and problems, and struck the funny bone often enough to be fondly remembered. However, it was probably too lower case to catch on, and it never made a second series, nor even a DVD release. Far funnier and less formulaic than the Thin Blue Line, which mines the same seam. Well worth watching if you can catch it.
