Not with a Bang

Not with a Bang
GenreSituation comedy
Written byTony Millan
Mike Walling
Directed byRobin Carr
StarringMike Grady
Josie Lawrence
Ronald Pickup
Stephen Rea
Theme music composerRod Argent
Peter Van Hooke
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes7
Production
ProducerRobin Carr
Running time30 minutes
Production companyLWT
Original release
NetworkITV
Release25 March (1990-03-25) 
6 May 1990 (1990-05-06)

Not with a Bang is a British television sitcom produced by LWT for ITV in 1990. It ran for seven episodes, each 30 minutes long. The show was a dark science fiction comedy, focusing on the end of the human race on Earth. The title comes from the last line of T. S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men" "not with a bang, but a whimper"; The concept for the series originates from a self-contained 1986 Radio 4 afternoon play of the same title, from which Mike Grady was the only cast member to reprise his role in the television series.