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Border Cafe

Would you swap fame for love and the chance to run a café?

  • 2000
  • Ended
  • Comedy · Drama
  • ~1h / ep
  • 1 season

Comedy drama series from Preston Front writer Tim Firth. Set in the fictional town of Hale Point on the borders of England and Wales, home to a cross-section of amazing, colourful characters who, under normal circumstances, would never have met. Rock star Charlotte Smith quits at the height of her fame and buys the American diner on the outskirts of her home town so she can settle down with her builder boyfriend David Doyle. He invites his daft elder brother Kidder to become the chef while the nervous Ronnie gives up her life as "Charlotte" in a copycat band to become waitress. The Border Cafe becomes a meeting place for all sorts of curious characters and a centre of intrigue. But as the cafe takes off, the whole notion of whose life depends on whose starts to shift with dramatic consequences

Latest: Season 1 · 2000

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  1. E1. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

    Jul 18, 2000 · 60m

    Retired rock star Charlotte has a disturbing encounter with distraught fan Ronnie.

  2. E2. More Than This

    Jul 25, 2000 · 60m

    Clive the coach driver asks to hire the cafe for his wife Joyce's Pretty Woman themed fantasy

  3. E3. Different for Girls

    Aug 1, 2000 · 60m

    Beejay finds his ultimate fantasy is a reality - both the mad sisters want to sleep with him.

  4. E4. Rock the Casbah

    Aug 8, 2000 · 60m

    When Chris Caine, the frontman for True North, arrives at the cafe all hell breaks loose.

  5. E5. Undercover of the Night

    Aug 15, 2000 · 60m

    The cafe is put under siege by a small psychopath with a frozen turkey.

  6. E6. Shot by Both Sides

    Aug 22, 2000 · 60m

    After patrolling with the police for the day, Kidder turns vigilante

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