Synopsis:
Wipe your feet, take a seat and meet the Brambledown Road neighbourhood watch.
(Tea or coffee, by the way? And help yourself to biscuits. But please don't leave any crumbs...)
Verity Snebbitt - Industrial-grade meddler and self-appointed Watch Leader, Verity is a romantic at heart even though the last Mr Right was responsible for her ignominious dismissal from the council and current financial difficulties.
Clive Bigley - A smooth-talking silver fox who’s fallen on hard times, Clive is currently Verity’s lodger due to problems with dubious overseas investments. Could he be the Grey Widower police want for a string of scams involving gullible older women?
Paula White (aka Rainbow Dancer) - Animal rights campaigning new-ager Rainbow has to wear a GPS tag and attend watch meetings under the terms of an ASBO for her role in liberating a local zoo. Much to her chagrin.
Klaus Krueger - Dutch cross-dressing ex-wrestler Klaus is the watch’s CCTV custodian, and Verity’s eyes and ears on the dodgy side of the park across from Brambledown Road.
India Parson-Jones - An educationally-challenged and borderline delinquent ‘Youth Tsar’ whose role includes attending watch meetings. It’s “like, mostly, well boring” – which explains why she spends most of the time texting her hoodlum friends.
Brian Malhotra - Delhi-born workaholic, mini-mart owner and Brexit enthusiast Brian attends meetings via Skype, while running his small business empire and doling out his unique brand of vigilante justice to ‘suspicious characters’ and inept car-parkers.
PC Mike Castle: A dedicated but ineffectual neighbourhood bobby who attends watch meets. He harbours wild fantasies about being Jack Bauer.
Each episode sees Verity struggle to pull rank as the misdemeanours of the watch’s members greatly overshadow the trivial offences and items on her agenda. Pace and humour is heightened by short insert scenes, which enhance the story and show what the characters are really up to.
The pilot sees Verity in a spin as an unexpected hostage situation arises in Brian’s mini-mart on the same evening that an esteemed judge from the NWA (Neighbourhood Watch Awards) is due to drop in and assess the effectiveness and reliability of the Brambledown Watch.
Further storylines deal with everything from dogging in the park; the blind terror caused by an unknown parked car with Romanian number plates; a GPS mix-up mistakenly identifying Brambledown as the international hub for a particularly gruesome and barbaric South American drug cartel.
Wipe your feet, take a seat and meet the Brambledown Road neighbourhood watch.
(Tea or coffee, by the way? And help yourself to biscuits. But please don't leave any crumbs...)
Verity Snebbitt - Industrial-grade meddler and self-appointed Watch Leader, Verity is a romantic at heart even though the last Mr Right was responsible for her ignominious dismissal from the council and current financial difficulties.
Clive Bigley - A smooth-talking silver fox who’s fallen on hard times, Clive is currently Verity’s lodger due to problems with dubious overseas investments. Could he be the Grey Widower police want for a string of scams involving gullible older women?
Paula White (aka Rainbow Dancer) - Animal rights campaigning new-ager Rainbow has to wear a GPS tag and attend watch meetings under the terms of an ASBO for her role in liberating a local zoo. Much to her chagrin.
Klaus Krueger - Dutch cross-dressing ex-wrestler Klaus is the watch’s CCTV custodian, and Verity’s eyes and ears on the dodgy side of the park across from Brambledown Road.
India Parson-Jones - An educationally-challenged and borderline delinquent ‘Youth Tsar’ whose role includes attending watch meetings. It’s “like, mostly, well boring” – which explains why she spends most of the time texting her hoodlum friends.
Brian Malhotra - Delhi-born workaholic, mini-mart owner and Brexit enthusiast Brian attends meetings via Skype, while running his small business empire and doling out his unique brand of vigilante justice to ‘suspicious characters’ and inept car-parkers.
PC Mike Castle: A dedicated but ineffectual neighbourhood bobby who attends watch meets. He harbours wild fantasies about being Jack Bauer.
Each episode sees Verity struggle to pull rank as the misdemeanours of the watch’s members greatly overshadow the trivial offences and items on her agenda. Pace and humour is heightened by short insert scenes, which enhance the story and show what the characters are really up to.
The pilot sees Verity in a spin as an unexpected hostage situation arises in Brian’s mini-mart on the same evening that an esteemed judge from the NWA (Neighbourhood Watch Awards) is due to drop in and assess the effectiveness and reliability of the Brambledown Watch.
Further storylines deal with everything from dogging in the park; the blind terror caused by an unknown parked car with Romanian number plates; a GPS mix-up mistakenly identifying Brambledown as the international hub for a particularly gruesome and barbaric South American drug cartel.
