Editing Ever Decreasing Circles (section)

{{Short description|British TV sitcom (1984–1989)}}
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{{Infobox television
| image                = everdecreasing.jpg
| caption              = Opening titles of ''Ever Decreasing Circles''
| genre                = British sitcom
| creator              = [[Esmonde and Larbey|John Esmonde<br />Bob Larbey]]
| based_on             = ''Hiccups'' (stage play)
| starring             = [[Richard Briers]]<br />[[Penelope Wilton]]<br />[[Peter Egan]]<br />[[Stanley Lebor]]<br />[[Geraldine Newman]]
| composer = [[Dmitri Shostakovich]]
| open_theme           = Prelude No. 15 from ''Twenty-four Preludes'', Op. 34
| country              = United Kingdom
| language             = English
| num_series           = 4
| num_episodes         = 27
| director             = [[Sydney Lotterby]] (13 episodes) [[Harold Snoad]] (14 episodes)
| runtime              = 30 minutes
| network              = [[BBC1]]
| first_aired          = {{Start date|1984|1|29|df=y}}
| last_aired           = {{End date|1989|12|24|df=y}}
}}

'''''Ever Decreasing Circles''''' is a [[British sitcom]] which ran on [[BBC1]] between 1984 and 1989, consisting of four series and one feature-length special. It was written by [[Esmonde and Larbey|John Esmonde and Bob Larbey]], and it reunited them with [[Richard Briers]], who had starred in their previous popular sitcom ''[[The Good Life (1975 TV series)|The Good Life]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/e/everdecreasingci_1299001069.shtml | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040623190815/http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/e/everdecreasingci_1299001069.shtml | archive-date=23 June 2004 | title=BBC - Comedy Guide - Ever Decreasing Circles }}</ref>

It was made toward the end of a run of British comedies focussing on the aspirational middle class, with ''The Guardian'' describing it as having "a quiet, unacknowledged and deep-running despair to it that in retrospect seems quite daring".<ref name=guardian>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2012/mar/19/cricket-match-ever-decreasing-circles|work=[[The Guardian]]|title=The cricket match in Ever Decreasing Circles|date=19 March 2012|access-date=12 October 2022}}</ref>