It seems almost every successful sitcom was a slow burn when it was first broadcast. Dad’s Army, The Office, Gavin and Stacey - even Fawlty Towers (of which much was expected at the time) was deemed to be a bit so-so when it first launched.
Certainly nothing was expected of Colin From Accounts, as it was an Australian import featuring two people (the husband-and-wife team Patrick Brummell and Harriet Dyer, playing hardscrabble lovebirds Gordon and Ashley) nobody in this country had ever heard of.
