Desmond's was a BritCom made from 1989-1994. It centred around a family-run barbershop in Peckham, and was one of the earliest shows on British television to have a mostly black cast[[note]]The ''absolute'' earliest was ''[[ The Fosters]]'', which ran from 1976-77, and ''also'' starred Norman Beaton as the head of the family[[/note]]. Much of the comedy came from the generation and culture gap between the very West Indian parents Desmond and Shirley, and their very English children, Michael, Gloria and Sean.

!!This show provides examples of:
* BritishAccents: Most of the young characters had Cockney accents. (The older generation had West Indian accents.)
* CatchPhrase: Matthew had "There's an old African saying..."
* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: The first episode of ''Porkpie'' reveals Shirley is widowed and now runs the shop, Norman Beaton having died the previous year.
* EightiesHair: Plenty of biiiiiiig hair, particularly since it's a show set in a salon.
* TheEighties: Michael is the archetypal 80s yuppie, with double-breasted suit and enormous and presumably madly expensive mobile phone.
* {{Spinoff}}: ''Porkpie'', in which the titular character [[RagsToRiches wins the lottery]].
* ThematicThemeTune:
-->From the long warm nights with the ocean breeze,\\
To the damp and to the rain of London city.\\
We come from the sun to live in the cold,\\
I miss my rum, I want my coconut tree.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Matthew and Porkpie.
* TokenWhite: Tony, who's addition to the cast was due to ExecutiveMeddling. (At least, according to TheOtherWiki.)