Meet the Small Potatoes talking head interviews with the band’s friends, manager Lester Koop (McDowell), and man on the street interviews with the band’s fans (all of whom are potatoes). The Small Potatoes’ trajectory roughly follows trends in American popular music through the second half of the 20th century: The Potatoes start as a country and western band in Idaho in the 1940s, before finding popularity first as rock and roll and then doo wop singers in the 1950s. They reach the peak of their popularity in the 1960s as a British invasion style act, followed by their experimenting with psychedelic rock after a
Small Potatoes (1999 TV series) 13 episodes over two series. Small Potatoes (1999 TV series) Small Potatoes is a British sitcom television series written by Richard Pinto and Sharat Sardana, first broadcast on Channel 4 from 1999 to 2001. Starring Tommy Tiernan, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Morgan Jones and Omid Djalili, it is set in East London and follows the life of a video rental shop employee, Ed Hewitt, and his friends. Underachieving twenty-something Ed Hewitt (Tommy Tiernan) has a media studies degree, but he works in a video shop in Leytonstone; however, he tries not to descend to the level of his layabout friends and fellow