Back Together

Back Together is a sitcom about four school friends now in their sixties who find themselves single and living in London.

The full synopsis:

They meet up for the first time in years at their headmaster’s funeral somewhere near
Wolverhampton where they had all attended grammar school in the late 60s.
They get on just like old times. They had briefly shared a house in London after they had graduated
from university.
Julian Truitt was now extremely rich having had a career in banking and started a hedge fund. This
resulted in him owning three houses; one in London, Holland Park; one in the Cotswolds; and one in
the Algarve. He had just divorced his second wife and had taken up hang gliding although these two
things were not connected, he believed. He had four children two with each wife aged 30, 28, 18 and
16.
Gordon Cook is a successful semi-retired accountant who started his own company 25 years ago.
Divorced his wife of 30 years about a year ago. He has three children 29, 27 and 22. He is over-
weight and balding.
Raj Kumar son of Ugandan Asian parents who left before Idi Amin could expel them. Excelled at
school went to Cambridge and qualified as a doctor. Cricket blue and played briefly for Surrey.
Became a cosmetic surgeon with thriving London clinic. Had arranged marriage which was
unarranged five years ago. Had three children all now in late twenties.
Geoffrey Bain was the most academic of the four friends did PPE at Balliol, Oxford. Having achieved
a first he chose to teach initially at Oxford and then at London University (LSE). Due to an Orwellian
distaste for a career he became downwardly mobile and never really had any meaningful
relationships with women who all wanted him to be more ambitious than he was. The result was he
found himself lecturing in Politics in a south London CFE to quite radical black youngsters with whom
he unexpectedly got on with famously.
Estrella and Bono came to the UK from the Philippines in the 80s. She is about 55 but looks more like
45 in an oriental way. She is quite diminutive but very feisty. Her husband Bono is from Nepal, an ex-
Gurkha, they met while working in the Gulf in the early 80s and came to UK to work for a wealth
Emirati in London in the same road. They met Julian who offered them better jobs, better treatment
and accommodation or what Estrella called “a no trainer”. Her grasp of English had been initially
rapid but had stalled due the isolation of her job and was much influenced by Julian and visitor to
the house in Lansdowne Crescent. Bono is never seen or heard but Estrella mentions him a lot.
There are other characters in the crescent who occasionally drop by including the local traffic
warden, wealthy neighbours and the local squeegee man (freelance car washer).
They decide to give living together again a try. In the early 70s they had shared a house in Fulham
and had nothing but good memories about this. Would this idea turn out to be a pathetic attempt to
relive their youth or would it be a pragmatic and life enhancing experience where mutual support
proves a powerful antidote to the negativity they have all recently experienced.

At the funeral they encountered one of their contemporaries, John Thayer, who had been a vile
bully, who had just been appointed a minister in the Government. All four of them were horrified by
this knowing his character and ambition. They agreed that something needed to be done.