Calendar Boys Explained

Series:The Green Green Grass
Series No:4
Episode:3
Runtime:30 Minutes
Production:4:3 (26)
Director:Dewi Humphreys
Producer:Gareth Gwenlan
Episode List:List of The Green Green Grass episodes
Season Article:The Green Green Grass (series 4)
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"Calendar Boys" is an episode of the BBC sitcom, The Green Green Grass. It was screened on 22 January 2009, as the third episode of the fourth series.[1] It was written by David Cantor and directed by Dewi Humphreys.

Synopsis

Marlene is bored with life on the farm, so she throws herself into charity work. As a result of her efforts, Boycie realises that a big enough charity donation could get him a knighthood. To raise money Marlene's new found photography skills appear as she creates a calendar called Calendar Boys, based on the popular film Calendar Girls, featuring all the men on the farm including Elgin, Bryan and Jed almost naked, a photoshopped Boycie, and some characters from Only Fools and Horses such as Denzil and Trigger. Tyler and his friends watch the internet release of the calendar, only to find the December picture is him, photoshopped.

Boycie meets an upper class MP, Tristram. Boycie overhears him talking, and, after coming to false conclusions, believes that he can use this new acquaintance to gain himself a knighthood. However, this is not the case. Unbeknown to Boycie, Tristram is bisexual, and is only interested in heterosexual Boycie in a homosexual way, encouraged by a series of misunderstandings.

Episode cast

ActorRole
John ChallisBoycie
Sue HoldernessMarlene
Jack DoolanTyler
David RossElgin
Ivan KayeBryan
Ella KenionMrs Cakeworthy
Peter HeppelthwaiteJed
Alan DavidLlewellyn
Nigel HarrisonRay
Jeremy ClydeTristram
Victoria CarlingVeronica
Samantha SutherlandSara
Oliver WoodZac
Edward HancockBlade
Edward BrowningLeon

Production and broadcast

Broadcast

This episode was broadcast on 22 January 2009 at 8:30, on BBC1.

Writer and cast

This episode was written by David Cantor, his first episode of the fourth series. This episode also has the largest cast since From Here to Paternity.

Viewership

3.86 million

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: New Comedy Series Starting Soon - British Comedy Guide. 2015-12-01. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090228201123/http://www.comedy.org.uk/schedule/coming_up. 28 February 2009.