Big Deal (1984)
Big Deal
1984The ups and downs of small time London gambler Robby Box, and the effect that his poker addiction has on his long suffering girlfriend Jan Oliver and family.
Seasons & Episode
Promises to Jan, debts to the Inland Revenue, Robby is at it again, keeping too many balls in the air. His only assets are his wits and his club.
At the bottom of the heap again, Robby Box will do anything for money. He'll even teach his friends to play poker!
Robby Box sorts out a fiddle at Gil's Betting Shop and helps a friend in need.
When Robby Box wins a card game in the hospital, he ends up 'painting the town'.
Robby Box will bet on anything, but it's a different matter when it comes to gambling with his own life.
Lumbered with a cuckoo in the nest, Robby Box sets out to put things right, but gets them wrong.... and right.
Robby Box has something he would like to say to Jan, but Ronnie Day and a load of forged bank-notes get in his way ...
Robby Box goes a long way out of his way to help a lady and himself.
Robby Box is perfectly serious about giving up gambling... until he hears a certain American is in town.
Robby's gambler's luck run out at last?
The ups and downs of small time London gambler Robby Box, and the effect that his poker addiction has on his long suffering girlfriend Jan Oliver and family.