Rating:
6.7/10 by 3 users
Big Deal (1984)
The ups and downs of small time London gambler Robby Box, and the effect that his poker addiction has on his long suffering girlfriend Jan Oliver and family.
Writing:
- Geoff McQueen
Release Date:
Sun, Oct 14, 1984
Country: GB
Language: En
Runtime: 50
Country: GB
Language: En
Runtime: 50
Ray Brooks
Robby Box
Pamela Cundell
Vi Box
Sharon Duce
Jan Oliver
Lisa Geoghan
Debbie Oliver
Stephen Tate
Dick Meyer
Frank Mills
Gil Roach
James Ottaway
Tommy
Deirdre Costello
Joan
Kenneth Waller
Ferret
Roger Walker
Kipper
Alex Tetteh-Lartey
Black George
Andy Mulligan
Geordie
Season 3:
Promises to Jan, debts to the Inland Revenue, Robby is at it again, keeping too many balls in the air. His only assets are his wits and his club.
At the bottom of the heap again, Robby Box will do anything for money. He'll even teach his friends to play poker!
Robby Box sorts out a fiddle at Gil's Betting Shop and helps a friend in need.
When Robby Box wins a card game in the hospital, he ends up 'painting the town'.
Robby Box will bet on anything, but it's a different matter when it comes to gambling with his own life.
Lumbered with a cuckoo in the nest, Robby Box sets out to put things right, but gets them wrong.... and right.
Robby Box has something he would like to say to Jan, but Ronnie Day and a load of forged bank-notes get in his way ...
Robby Box goes a long way out of his way to help a lady and himself.
Robby Box is perfectly serious about giving up gambling... until he hears a certain American is in town.
