Small Potatoes (1999 TV series)

Small Potatoes
Genre	Sitcom
Written by	Richard Pinto Sharat Sardana
Directed by	Paul Duane
Starring	Tommy Tiernan Sanjeev Bhaskar Omid Djalili
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	13
Production
Producer	Richard Pinto
Running time	25 minutes
Production company	Hat Trick
Original release
Network	Channel 4
Release	9 November 1999 (1999-11-09) – 11 September 2001 (2001-09-11)

Small Potatoes is a British sitcom television series written by Richard Pinto and Sharat Sardana, first broadcast on Channel 4 from 1999 to 2001. Starring Tommy Tiernan, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Morgan Jones and Omid Djalili, it is set in east London and follows the life of a video rental shop employee, Ed Hewitt, and his friends.

Synopsis

Underachieving twenty-something Ed Hewitt (Tommy Tiernan) has a media studies degree, but works in a video shop in Leytonstone; however, he tries not to descend to the level of his layabout friends and fellow workers.

Episodes

Small Potatoes ran for 13 episodes over two seasons.

• Sick (9 November 1999)
• Sexuality (16 November 1999)
• Staff (23 November 1999)
• Scrubber (30 November 1999)
• Secrets (7 December 1999)
• School (14 December 1999)
• Alien (31 July 2001)
• Jimminy Critic (7 August 2001)
• Butch (14 August 2001)
• Blackout (21 August 2001)
• Unbearable Whiteness of Being (29 August 2001)
• Club (4 September 2001)
• Sad Max (11 September 2001)