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 Peter Davison 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).

His girlfriend, Sonia, is a very serious minded young woman who is passionate only about things like vegetarianism 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.