While Danny Baker's Cradle To Grave hit the ground running with its first episode, the new series that followed it, Boy Meets Girl, was, despite an eye-catching opening line, a little more tentative. Not surprising as it is the first sitcom about the romance between a young man and woman who is transgender. 

Apart from this premise everything else here was pretty sitcom-conventional. Eccentric northern families and lots of bickering and wisecracking as Leo (Harry Hepple) loses his job and attempts to drown his sorrows on a night out with brother James (Jonny Dixon).

The twist comes in the bar when Leo gets into a conversation with Judy (Rebecca Root), who makes no bones about being born with a penis. But a little thing like that doesn’t really matter to Leo, who is clearly smitten despite the other issue of a two-decade age gap.

And so the episode works up to a Hugh Grant-style kiss in the rain, which nearly doesn’t happen but does produce the single belly laugh of the episode for me – but then I’m a sucker for somebody being accidentally hit in the face. 

One can see this winding up the anti-political correctness brigade. It may also wind up critics who may see it as painfully old-fashioned despite its unique selling point. But Boy Meets Girl does have its moments. A bit of a half-cocked start perhaps, but well worth a second look.

Boy Meets Girl, Thursdays, 9.30pm, BBC2.