Trouble In Mind (ITV 1991, Richard O’Sullivan, Susan Penhaligan)

Sitcom Trouble in Mind focused on the problems of middle-aged married psychiatrist Adam Charlesworth. He was going through something of a mid-life crisis; His grown up children had flown the coop and wife Julia had started her own landscape gardening business.

The series never caught on, it was pulled after six of it’s 9 episodes with the remaining three show a couple of months later.

Writing team Tony Millan and Mike Walling were better known as actors having appeared in shows such as Citizen Smith (Millan) and Brush Strokes (Walling)

production details
UK / ITV – London Weekend Television – Highway / 9×25 minute episodes / Broadcast 24 February – 14 July 1991

Creator: Greg Brennan / Writers: Colin Bostock Smith, Tony Millan and Mike Walling / Producer: Al Mitchell / Executive Producer: Robin Carr

cast
Richard O’Sullivan as Adam Charlesworth
Susan Penhaligan as Julia Charlesworth
Nicholas Day as Dr Malcolm Barclay
Jim McManus as Stanley Chambers

THE EPISODES
1. THE NOT SO LONG GOOD FRIDAY (24 Feb 91)
2. A FAR, FAR BETTER THING (3 Mar 91)
3. DOWN MEMORY LANE (10 Mar 91)
4. A SKETCH IN TIME (17 Mar 91)
5. FOR WHOM THE BELL DINGS (24 Mar 91)
6. A WOMAN’S TOUCH (31 Mar 91)
7. THE CHANCE TO DREAM (30 Jun 91)
8. THE GOLF, THE GRUB AND THE TOTTIE (7 Jul 91)
9. IN THE HEAT OF THE AFTERNOON (14 Jul 91)