''Sink or Swim'' is a BBC TV sitcom created and written by Alex Shearer. It ran for three series between 4 December 1980 and 14 October 1982 and stars

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as Brian Webber and Robert Glenister as his brother Steve. Brian lives in a flat above a petrol station in London (in the last series he moved to Newcastle to attend university). He's trying hard to make his way in the world, thus far with limited success. His girlfriend, Sonia, is a very serious minded young woman who is passionate only about things like

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and ecology. When Brian's younger brother, Steve, arrives in London looking for somewhere to stay, his lazy, cynical, noisy "Northern lout" attitude disrupts Brian's already messy life. Like '' Only Fools and Horses'', ''Sink or Swim'' was filmed in Bristol doubling for London. Shearer later wrote the Nicholas Lyndhurst sitcom ''

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'' for LWT. Production of the sitcom overlapped the first two years of Davison also starring as the Fifth Doctor in ''

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'', which imposed constraints on the recording schedules.

Cast

– Brian Webber * Robert Glenister – Steve Webber *Sara Corper – Sonia *Amanda Orton – Sandra (series 1 & 2) * Ron Pember – Mike Connor (series 1 & 2) * Gillian Taylforth – Christine (series 2) *Briony McRoberts – Charlotte (series 3) *Russell Wootton – Douglas (series 3)

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* * 1980 British television series debuts 1980s British sitcoms 1982 British television series endings BBC television sitcoms English-language television shows {{BBC-tv-prog-stub