History Series / Desmonds

* OutWithABang: Sweetsticks, the former bandmate turned rival of Desmond and Porkpie, reportedly dies while having sex with a younger woman.

* {{Spinoff}}: ''Porkpie'', in which the titular character [[RagsToRiches wins the lottery]] shortly after [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim Desmond's death]]. It ran for two series (12 episodes in total).

* FrivolousLawsuit: An American pastor whose wife left him over suspicions of adultery, and who was subsequently defrocked, decides that the trim he got from Desmond is the root cause of all his problems and procceds to sue.

* {{Spinoff}}: ''Porkpie'', in which the titular character [[RagsToRiches wins the lottery]].

* TokenWhite: Tony, whose addition to the cast was due to executive meddling. (At least, according to Wiki/TheOtherWiki.)

* TheEighties: Michael is the archetypal 80s {[Yuppie}}, with double-breasted suit and enormous and presumably madly expensive mobile phone.

* TheEighties: Michael is the archetypal 80s yuppie, with double-breasted suit and enormous and presumably madly expensive mobile phone.

* TokenWhite: Tony, whose addition to the cast was due to ExecutiveMeddling. (At least, according to Wiki/TheOtherWiki.)

''Desmond's'' (1988–94) was a British sitcom by Creator/ChannelFour; it was one of their longest sitcoms of all time and managed to have a brief spin-off series in 1995.

'''''Desmond's''''' (1988 -- 1994) was a British sitcom by Creator/ChannelFour; it was one of their longest sitcoms of all time and managed to have a brief spin-off series in 1995.

* TokenWhite: Tony, whose addition to the cast was due to ExecutiveMeddling. (At least, according to TheOtherWiki.)

* BritishAccents: Most of the young characters had Cockney accents. (The older generation had West Indian accents.)

''Desmond's'' was set in a hair salon in Peckham, South-London and had a large black ensemble cast, which was one of the first in British television[[note]]The ''absolute'' earliest was ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fosters The Fosters]]'', which ran from 1976-77, and ''also'' starred Norman Beaton as the head of the family[[/note]. It centered around the Ambrose family, but mostly the owner of salon Desmond Ambrose, who is constantly called out as a terrible barber by his family. The rest of his family provided the rest of the comedy, which came from the generation and culture gap between the very West Indian parents Desmond and Shirley, and their very English children, Michael, Gloria and Sean.

Desmond's was a BritCom made from 1989-1994. It centred around a family-run barbershop in Peckham, and was one of the earliest shows on British television to have a mostly black cast[[note]]The ''absolute'' earliest was ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fosters The Fosters]]'', which ran from 1976-77, and ''also'' starred Norman Beaton as the head of the family[[/note]]. Much of the comedy came from the generation and culture gap between the very West Indian parents Desmond and Shirley, and their very English children, Michael, Gloria and Sean.

* TokenWhite: Tony, who's addition to the cast was due to ExecutiveMeddling. (At least, according to TheOtherWiki.)

* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: The first episode of ''Porkpie'' reveals Shirley is widowed and now runs the shop, Norman Beaton having died the previous year.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Dominic Keating, who played Tony, went on to play Malcolm Reed in ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''.
* TheEighties: Michael is the archetypal 80s yuppy, with double-breasted suit and enormous and presumably madly expensive mobile phone.

Desmond's was a BritCom made from 1989-1994. It centred around a family-run barbershop in Peckham, and was one of the earliest shows on British television to have a mostly black cast[[hottip:*:The ''absolute'' earliest was ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fosters The Fosters]]'', which ran from 1976-77, and ''also'' starred Norman Beaton as the head of the family]]. Much of the comedy came from the generation and culture gap between the very West Indian parents Desmond and Shirley, and their very English children, Michael, Gloria and Sean.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Dominic Keating, who played Tony, went on to play Malcolm Reed in StarTrekEnterprise.