The Sofa of Time
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| Genre | Comedy-drama |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | BBC Radio 4 |
| Starring | Nick Frost Matt King Mark Heap Julia Deakin Simon Pegg Peter Serafinowicz |
| Creator(s) | Nick Frost Matt King |
| Writer(s) | Nick Frost Matt King |
| Air dates | October 24, 2002 – November 28, 2002 |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Audio format | Stereophonic sound |
| Website | BBC website |
The Sofa of Time was a BBC Radio 4 comedy drama written by and starring Nick Frost and Matt King. It was broadcast in 2002.
Milford (King) and Parker (Frost) get sacked from their jobs in a soft furnishings factory in Crouch End. As they are clearing out their lockers, they fall into the magical world of Gravy. Frost described Gravy as an "Tolkien-esque world with supermarkets and banks".[1]
There they meet Marmite the Dwarf, (Mark Heap), who believes that Milford is "the chosen one", who has come at last to save the people from the evil emperor warlock Raamen Bod, (Peter Serafinowicz), who plans to find the Sofa of Time, the most magical and powerful item of furniture in the entire universe, and use it for evil purposes.
The series featured Spaced regulars Mark Heap, Julia Deakin, Peter Serafinowicz, and Simon Pegg as well as Kevin Eldon, Daisy Jones and Joseph Marcell. The series was produced by Mario Stylianides, for Talkback.
The BBC offered King and Frost a second series, but they declined as during the recording of the series the two fell out and vowed never to work together again.[2] The series has never been made commercially available.
[edit] Episode list
| Episode | Title | First broadcast |
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| 1 | There's a World in My Locker | 24 October 2002 |
| 2 | Where The Brave Go Shopping | 31 October 2002 |
| 3 | And the Hackett March on... | 7 November 2002 |
| 4 | Captain Chapel and the Crabs | 14 November 2002 |
| 5 | Night of the Sexicle | 21 November 2002 |
| 6 | Here Comes Bod | 28 November 2002 |
N.b. Some sources (e.g. epguides.com) list the alternative title A Lovely Day in Tangleton for episode two.
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