Tutti Frutti (1987 TV series)

Tutti Frutti is a BBC Scotland six part drama series, transmitted in 1987 and written by John Byrne. It starred Robbie Coltrane, Emma Thompson, Maurice Roves, Richard Wilson and Katy Murphy. It brought many of the cast to national prominence.

The groups devious and exploitative manager Eddie Clockerty Wilson talks Big Jazzas younger brother, Danny also Coltrane, home from New York for the funeral, into joining the band as their new lead singer. Suzi Kettles Thompson, a sharp cookie and old classmate of Danny, picks up the guitar and also joins the band. From that moment, the illfated tour and the bands fortunes appear to take a turn for the better.The Majestics final dispiriting tour of Scotlands less salubrious clubs and pubs is punctuated by childish backstage squabbling and a series of personal disasters. Ageing heartthrob Vincent Diver Roves, the iron man of Scottish Rock, is cheating on his wife Noreen a community nurse and sister of drummer Bomba with girlfriend Glenna played by Fiona Chalmers as simultaneously pathetic, manipulative and glutinously cloying, who has an apparent pregnancy and when the unborn child dies or maybe never existed from the start, she commits suicide by jumping from a bridge into the Clyde. ........

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