A Perfect State — Season 1, Episode 2: Episode Two
Comedy • 30 min • 1 season, 7 episodes • ★ 6.0/10
Episode synopsis
Whitehall sends in the local Member of Parliament as Flatby's campaign for independence gathers steam. Bullying MP Bill Jarvis offers Mayor Winston an OBE to back down on the crusade. Laura is furious when she discovers Winston is planning to do a deal. She knows he has a vicious temper and primes the locals to provoke him to reveal all.
About A Perfect State
A Perfect State was a 1997 British situation comedy starring Gwen Taylor, Richard Hope, Trevor Cooper, Emma Amos and Danny Webb. It debuted on BBC1 on Thursday 27 February 1997 and ran for seven episodes. Taylor took the leading role of Laura Fitzgerald, the Deputy Mayor of Flatby, a town on the East Coast of England. As the series begins, she is informed that because Flatby was never surveyed for the Domesday Book, it has never officially been annexed into the United Kingdom. As a result, and much to the chagrin of the Government in London, Laura rallies the townsfolk to declare Flatby an independent state. Most of the filming was carried out in Wivenhoe in Essex.