Outside Edge is a British sitcom by Richard Harris that starred Brenda Blethyn, Robert Daws, Josie Lawrence and Timothy Spall.

The series focuses on the lives of two couples with contrasting attitudes, the uptight and conservative Roger (Daws) and Miriam Dervish (Blethyn) with the bohemian and adventurous Kevin (Spall) and Maggie Costello (Lawrence) and their involvement with the local Brent Park Cricket team who meet every Saturday.

Other members of the cricket team are also dealt with, from the lecherous womaniser Dennis Broadley (Denis Lill), timid and naive Nigel (Nigel Pegram), snobbish solicitor Alex Harrington (Ben Daniels/ Chris Lang) and browbeaten husband and later father Bob Willis (Jeremy Nicholas/ Michael Jayston), along with a number of other characters who also regularly appear through the series' run.

Roger Dervish (Daws) is the astute and bossy captain of the local cricket team who thinks, talks and dreams about the game all the time.

Their regimented lifestyle is turned upside down when on one match day they are introduced to the vivacious and outgoing Maggie Costello (Lawrence), wife of Kevin (Spall), a bowler from Roger's cricket team.

At the beginning of the series she lives a relatively sedate and humdrum lifestyle, which mainly consists of looking after her husband and organising the cricket club's teas every Saturday.

Outside of work, most of his life revolves around organising and planning the weekly fixtures, sometimes his excessiveness and attention to detail can be an annoyance towards others, and when things go wrong with the Cricket team or at home he is rarely able to handle it well.

Maggie Costello played by Josie Lawrence In contrast to Mim, she is outgoing, flirtatious, brash and frequently expresses her feelings about people.

She is married to Kevin, a bowler of the local Cricket team; she is deeply infatuated with her husband and their passionate relationship frequently leads to public displays of affection, which often causes disquiet among the other members of the club.

She lives a carefree Bohemian lifestyle and dresses in revealing tops and outfits as a means of expressing her sensuality, however her extroverted behaviour masks her sadness and inability to come to terms with the concept that she and Kevin may not be able to have children.

On the way to a cricket match, Roger's Volvo won't start and they are soon introduced to Kevin's wife Maggie for the first time, who impresses them with her mechanical skills.

Her agitation eventually reaches boiling point and after the game finishes, an infuriated Mim confronts Roger in the car park and demands to know the truth of what actually happened in Dorking.

During the screening, Alex makes an announcement about his newfound relationship with Sophie and a heavily pregnant Ginnie is suspicious that Bob was having an affair during the Corfu trip.

The proceedings continuously threaten to derail, due to the unfinished construction of the Pavilion, a runaway herd of cattle from the nearby farm and a faulty portable toilet that locks in the guest of honour, Godfrey Evans, who appears as himself in the episode.

Shortly after, Mim finally gets a chance to ride on the lawnmower, with chaotic consequences when the clutch gets jammed and she struggles to keep it under control as it hurtles its way around the pitch.

In 1991, Richard Harris wrote a pilot for a potential TV series adaption for 'Outside Edge' and submitted it to Central Independent Television, sometime later the script eventually found its way to the attention of his former colleague and producer Paula Burdon.

As Harris recalled for an interview with Suzan Leavy from The Stage Magazine in 1994 "I was quite surprised that Paula commissioned me to write six episodes before Vernon Lawrence (TV producer) had even seen it."

He continued by stating "it was quite strange because I sent the script in about three years ago, so you wait around all that time and suddenly it's all systems go and you are told to go away and write six more episodes'.

Other filming locations included West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire for the scenes at Mim and Roger's house, the Hotel de Paris in Cromer, Norfolk for the episode 'The Night Before Cromer',[13] and Aslockton railway station in Asklockton, Nottinghamshire for the scene in the Series 3 opener 'The New Pitch' where Kevin and Maggie meet real life Cricketer, Godfrey Evans on the station platform, who plays himself in the episode.