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Bottom: Exposed review - How two drunken halfwits and their exploding bottoms topped the ratings, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Full marks for honesty. 'It was a long time ago - 30 years,' said actress Lisa Coleman, with a smile and a shrug. 'I can't really remember.'

Sitting on the sofa in a mock-up of the duo's squalid flat, he compared Bottom to the seminal Steptoe And Son, and said he used to worry that its creators, Galton and Simpson, might sue him for plagiarism. Sitting on the sofa in a mock-up of the duo's squalid flat, he compared Bottom to the seminal Steptoe And Son, and said he used to worry that its creators, Galton and Simpson, might sue him for plagiarism Lisa Coleman, best-known for the long-running Tracy Beaker series in the Noughties, played Doreen Hedgehog in a single episode of the cult BBC2 sitcom Bottom

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