Daily Record, 2 March 2002.
"Gary's in the club."
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*Manchild* BBC2, 10.00pm

Gary (Ray Burdis) puts his marriage at risk when he's 
tempted with the delights of a strip club - a pastime which 
his three friends are used to.

James (Anthony Head) still fails to understand his problems 
with his new penis and seeks some advice from his surgeon 
and his ex-wife, both of whom are about as fruitless as his 
organ.

Terry (Nigel Havers), on the other hand, seems to have his 
eye set on his Salsa teacher. He goes all-out to try to 
sweep the unsuspecting girl off her feet, only to be left 
with pie on his face and a large platinum card bill.

Meanwhile, Patrick (Don Warrington) seems to get to grips 
with his roots, becoming interested in another woman and, 
more unusually, a river.

Nigel Havers covets the 140mph BMW motorbike that comes with 
the territory where the "sexy," "savvy" and "scandalous" 
Terry is concerned.

Ever since he ran headlong into the media spotlight in the 
movie *Chariots of Fire*, archetypal ladies' man Havers has 
been consistently charming audiences far and wide.

And for *Manchild*, the debonair Havers plays another on-
screen smoothie - the beguilingly childish, divorced 
stockbroker Terry.

He says: "I want everyone to watch this because it's great 
TV.

"The boys - Terry, Patrick, Gary and James - have lots of 
toys to play with. 

"I'd like to have kept them all - particularly the cars. 
Certainly, I really rather enjoyed Terry's BMW R1100 bike. 
In fact, everything they wear is fantastic and everywhere 
they go is the best. They really do enjoy the high life."

But it wasn't just the chance to play with some big boys' 
toys that attracted Havers to Manchild.

He says: "It's so true to life. It's refreshing - something 
different. It isn't like anything else on TV. It's really 
well observed and the script made me laugh out loud.

"It's politically incorrect and I really relish that. In 
fact, I think that a lot of men will watch it and say, 'God, 
I've always wanted to say that. Go for it.'"

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