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The Definitive UK Sitcom List, part G-M
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Game On (94) BBC(Hat Trick) Andrew Davies
<synopsis>
Ben Chaplin, Matthew Cottle, Samantha Janus
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George And Mildred (76,77ab,78ab,79,80film,81) ITV(Thames)
Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke
Hen pecked husband scenario, spin off from Man About the House
Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce, Norman Eshley, Sheila Fearn,
Nicholas Bond-Owen
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George And The Dragon (66,67,68ab) ITV(ATV) Harry Driver & Vince Powell
Chauffeur & housekeeper
Peggy Mount, Sid James, John Le Mesurier, Keith Marsh
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Get Back (92,93) BBC(Alomo, 93 at least) Lawrence Marks & Maurice Gran
93:some eps Gary Lawson & John Phelps
Working class brothers who made it are hit by recession and have to
return to the council estate
Larry Lamb, Ray Winstone, Carol Harrison
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Get Some In! (75,76,77,78) ITV John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
National Service: new recruits to RAF
Tony Selby, David Janson, Robert Lindsay, Gerald Ryder, Brian Pettifer
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Get The Drift (71) BBC ?writer [?sitcom, or club/standup]
"Mild and bitter humour" [The Times, 30.vii & 13.viii.71]
Henry Livings, Alex Glasgow
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Girls About Town (p69,70,71) ITV(ATV) Adele Rose
2 housewives with 7 year itch (69 pilot diff cast)
Julie Stevens, Denise Coffey, Robin Parkinson, Peter Baldwin
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Girls On Top (85,86) ITV(Central) Dawn French & Jennifer Saunders
Four mismatched girls share a flat
Tracey Ullman, Jennifer Saunders, Ruby Wax, Dawn French, Joan Greenwood,
Helen Atkinson Wood, Helen Lederer, Alan Rickman
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Going Straight (78) BBC Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais
Porridge sequel: Fletcher gets out of jail
Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Patricia Brake
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Goodbye, Mr Kent (82) BBC Peter Vincent & Peter Robinson
Lodger won't leave
Hannah Gordon, Richard Briers, Talla Hayes
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Goodnight And God Bless (83) ITV(Central) Donald Churchill & Joe McGrath
Remarried ex-standup comic is successful game show host, inwardly shy
Donald Churchill, Judy Loe
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Goodnight Sweetheart (93) BBC Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran
TV repairman timeslips to 1943
Nicholas Lyndhurst, Derula Kirwan, Michelle Holmes
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Grace And Favour (92,93) BBC Jeremy Lloyd & David Croft
{retitled in USA: "Are You Being Served? Again!"}
Are You Being Served spinoff: big country house
Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Frank Thornton, Wendy Richard, Nicholas Smith,
Fleur Bennett, Billy Burden, Joanne Heywood, Michael Bilton
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Grandad has been adjudged kid's stuff
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Grundy (80) ITV(Thames) Ken Hoare
Life-long puritan newsagent comes face-to-face with the permissive society
Harry H. Corbett(last tv series), Lynda Baron, David Janson
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Haggard (90,92) ITV Eric Chappell
Tudorbethan/regency/georgian(you choose) spendthrift squire
Keith Barron, Reece Dinsdale, Sam Kelly
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Hallelujah (83,84) ITV(YTV) Dick Sharples
Salvation Army captain attempts to clean up Yorkshire town
Thora Hird, David Daker, Patsy Rowlands
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Hancock
61 - BBC Galton and Simpson.
63 - ITV(ATV) Godfrey Harrison, Richard Harris & Dennis Spooner,
Terry Nation
66 and 67 series were sketch/variety
Morose person
Tony Hancock
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Hancock's Half Hour (56,57ab,59-ab,60) BBC Ray Galton & Alan Simpson
Morose person vs. the world
Tony Hancock, Sid James, Hugh Lloyd, June Whitfield, Kenneth Williams(1st
2 seasons), Hattie Jacques(occasional)
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Happy Ever After (76,77,78) BBC John Chapman and Eric Merriman(76)
writers vary in 2nd and 3rd series
Suburban couple
Terry Scott, June Whitfield
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Happy Families (85) BBC Ben Elton
Attempts to find scattered family members
Jennifer Saunders, Ade Edmondson, Dawn French, Stephen Fry
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Hardwicke House (87or earlier?) ITV(Central)
?writer(ex comprehensive school teacher)
Makes Grange Hill look like a kindergarten for angels: banned after 2 eps
Roy Kinnear, Granville Saxton
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Harry Worth (67,68,69?) BBC Ronny Taylor
Single man on edge of middle age finds life in East Cheam confusing
Harry Worth
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Have I Got You ... Where You Want Me? (81) ITV Philip Harland & Paul Harris.
Still 'going steady' after 10 years
Ian Lavender, Kim Braden, Ray Lonnen
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Health And Efficiency (-94) BBC Andrew Marshall
Surgical team B versus the cuts, the illnesses, and each other
Gary Olsen, Felicity Montagu, Roger Lloyd Pack, Deborah Norton,
Victor McGuire, Adjoa Andoh, Samantha Janus, Walter Sparrow, Ann Payot
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Hello Cheeky was a sketch show.
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Hell's Bells (86) BBC Jan Butlin
Trendy bishop vs. traditionalist dean
Derek Nimmo, Robert Stephens, Susan Jameson, Phyllida Law
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Help! (86,88) BBC ?writer
Four no-hoper dole-ite scousers
Jake Abrahams, Craig Charles
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Her Majesty's Pleasure (69) ITV(Granada) Leslie Duxbury
Prison warders feel trapped too
Ken Jones, John Sharp, John Nettleton, John Normington, Tommy Mann,
Neville Smith
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Here's Harry (61,62?,63,64) BBC Vince Powell & Harry Driver
, Frank Roscoe, & others
Nice chap, Harry, but a bit of a bumbler
Harry Worth
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Hi-De-Hi! (p80,81ab-,82-,83-,x85,86,87,88) BBC Jimmy Perry & David Croft
Holiday camp
Paul Shane, Su Pollard, Ruth Madoc, Simon Cadell(-84), Jeffrey Holland,
David Griffin(85-?), Diane Holland, Barry Howard, Nikki Kelly,
Rikki Howard, Felix Bowness, Leslie Dwyer, The Webb Twins,
Chris Andrews, Susan Beagley
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High And Dry (87) ITV ?writer
Bloke buys a derelict pier in 1946
Bernard Cribbins, Richard Wilson, Vivienne Martin, Angus Barnett
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Hilary (84,86) BBC Peter Robinson & Peter Vincent
Talk show producer's assistant
Marti Caine, Philip Madoc, Jack Smethurst, Carolyn Moody, Philip Fox,
Owen Whittaker
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His And Hers (70,72) ITV(Yorkshire) Ken Hoare & Mike Sharland
Freelance journalist stays home, accountant wife works in the City
Ronald Lewis, Sue Lloyd->Barbara Murray, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Madeline Smith,
Norman Rossington
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His Lordship Entertains (72) BBC Jonathon(sp?) Cobbold = Ronnie Barker
Lord converts ancestral home into hotel.
Ronnie Barker, Josephine Tewson, David Jason
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HMS Paradise (64) ITV(AR) Maurice Wiltshire
Royal Navy
Richard Caldicott, Robin Hunter, Ronald Radd, Frank Thornton
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Holding The Fort (81,82) ITV(LWT) Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran
She's in the army, he stays home with the baby and brews beer
Patricia Hodge, Peter Davison, Matthew Kelly
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Home James (87,88,89,90 or is that 89-90?) ITV Geoff McQueen
Chauffeur; Spin off from "Up the Elephant and Round the Castle"
Jim Davidson, George Sewell, Harry Towb.
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Home To Roost (85,86,87,89-) ITV(Yorkshire) Eric Chappell
Son comes to live with long-divorced father
John Thaw, Reece Dinsdale
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Honey For Tea (94) BBC Michael Aitkens
American widow takes 20yr old son to college in Cambridge
Felicity Kendal, Nigel Le Vaillant, Leslie Phillips, Alan David,
Patrick McCollough
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Honky Tonk Heroes (81) ITV ?writer
S London Country&Western club
James Grout, Sheila Steafel
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Horace is listed as drama in Television's Greatest Hits
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Hope It Rains (91,92) ITV(Thames) John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
Seaside waxworks owner and orphaned late teens god-daughter
Tom Bell, Holly Aird, Eamon Boland
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Horne A'Plenty was a sketch show
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Hot Metal (86,88) ITV(LWT) Andrew Marshall & David Renwick
Tabloid circulation wars
Richard Wilson(88), Robert Hardy, Geoffrey Palmer(86), Richard Kane,
Geoffrey Hutchings, John Gordon-Sinclair (86), Caroline Milmoe (88)
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How's Your Father? (74) ITV ?writer
Aging father lives with daughter and her husband
Sheila Steafel, Arthur English, Michael Robbins
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How's Your Father? (74,75) ITV(Granada) John Stevenson
The Cropper family
Michael Robbins, Barbara Young, Nicholas Hoye, Georgina Moon,
Arthur English
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How's Your Father? (79,80) ITV(YTV) Pam Valentine & Michael Ashton
Widower with 2 teenage children
Harry Worth, Debbie Cumming, Giles Watling
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Hugh And I (62...66 6series(more?)) BBC John Chapman (? & Eric Merriman ?)
Two friends from Lobelia Avenue, Tooting
Hugh Lloyd, Terry Scott, Mollie Sugden, Wendy Richard
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Hugh And I Spy (?) ?channel ?writer
<synopsis>
Hugh Lloyd, Terry Scott
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I Didn't Know You Cared (75,76,78,79) BBC Peter Tinniswood
The Brandons - happily miserable north country folk
Robin Bailey, John Comer, Liz Smith, Anita Carey, Stephen Rea
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I Thought You'd Gone (84) ITV(Central) Peter Jones & Ken Laffan
Couple move to country from Croydon after kids leave home
Peter Jones, Pat Heywood
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I Woke Up One Morning (85) BBC Carla Lane
Alcoholism
<cast>
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I, Lovett (93) BBC Norman Lovett & Ian Pattison
Eccentric inventor and his cynical talking dog
Norman Lovett, Sara Cooper, Dicken Ashworth, voices of Geoffrey Hughes,
Leon Sinden, Mary Riggans, Bernard Cribbins, Ian Sexon
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If It Moves--File It (70) ITV(LWT) Troy Kennedy Martin
Bungling bureaucrats
John Bird, Dudley Foster, John Nettleton
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In For A Penny (72) ITV(LWT) John Hawkesworth & John Whitney
Humiliations of an old man in the lowly job of lavatory attendant
Bob Todd, Jack Woolgar
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In Loving Memory (p69Thames,79,80,82,83-,86) ITV(Yorkshire) Dick Sharples
Aunt & nephew run funeral parlour
Thora Hird, Christopher Beeny
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In Sickness And In Health (85,86,87,89,90,92) BBC Johnny Speight
Till Death Do Us Part spinoff
Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols(at first), Carmel McSharry, Arthur English
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Inside George Webley (70) ITV(YTV) Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall
Worrier
Roy Kinnear, Patsy Rowland
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum (75,76,77,78,80,81) BBC Jimmy Perry & David Croft
British army concert party in WW2 Burma
Windsor Davies, John Clegg, Michael Bates, Melvyn Hayes, George Layton,
Michael Knowles, Don Estelle, Donald Hewlett
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It Takes A Worried Man (81,83) ITV Peter Tilbury
Mid life crisis
Peter Tilbury, Christopher Benjamin, Nicholas Le Prevost,
Sue Holderness(83)
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It's Awfully Bad For Your Eyes, Darling (71) BBC
Jilly Cooper & Christopher Bond
Four dollies in a flat (based on J Cooper's newspaper cartoon strip)
Jane Carr, Jennifer Croxton, Elizabeth Knight, Joanna Lumley,
Jeremy Lloyd
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Jeeves And Wooster (90,91,92,93) ITV(Granada) P.G.Wodehouse, dram Clive Exton
Valet saves youngish aristocrat from scrapes
Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Robert Daws, Elizabeth Spriggs, Mary Wimbush
Adam Blackwood, Francesca Folan->Elizabeth Morton, Roger Brierley
Richard Garnett->Richard Brain, John Turner, Ralph Michael
Michael Siberry->Pip Torrens, Brenda Bruce->Patricia Lawrence
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Joan And Leslie (57-) ITV ?writer [?sitcom or sketch]]
<synopsis>
Leslie Randall, Joan Reynolds
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John Browne's Body (69) ITV(ATV) Rene Basilico
Bungling female detective
Peggy Mount, Naunton Wayne
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Joint Account (89,90,91) BBC Don Webb
Female bank manager
Hannah Gordon, Peter Egan, John Bird
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Joking Apart (93) BBC(Pola Jones) Steven Moffatt
Divorce
Robert Bathurst, Fiona Gillies, Tracie Bennett, Paul Raffield
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Just A Gigolo (93) ITV Carl Graham & Michael Hatt & Amanda Swift
Ex-teacher becomes paid escort
Tony Slattery, Paul Bigley, Rowena King, Wanda Ventham
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Just Good Friends (83,84x,?85?,86) BBC John Sullivan
On/off relationship
Paul Nicholas, Jan Francis
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Just Jimmy (68) ITV(ABC) Ron McDonnell
TV version of The Clitheroe Kid
Jimmy Clitheroe, Mollie Sugden, Danny Ross
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Just Liz (80) ITV(Thames) John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
Girl awaits fiance's return from Bahrain
Sandra Payne, Rodney Bewes, Gorden Kaye, Terence Alexander, Avril Angers
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Just William (early 60s) ?channel Richmal Crompton, dramatised by ?
Richmal Crompton's famous stories
Dennis Waterman
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Just William (77ab-) ITV(LWT) Richmal Crompton, dramatised by ?
Richmal Crompton's famous stories
Adrian Dannatt, Bonnie Langford, Diana Dors
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Keep It In The Family (71) ITV(YTV) David Nobbs & Peter Vincent
Couple have one parent each living with them
Tim Barrett, Vivienne Martin, Joyce Grant, Jack Haig
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Keep It In The Family (80ab,81,82,83) ITV(Thames) Brian Cooke(80a,80b)
81:eps Brian Cooke, David Barry, Peter Learmouth, Dave & Greg Freeman
82:eps Dave & Greg Freeman, Peter Learmouth, David Barry
83: Dave & Greg Freeman
Procrastinating cartoonist with 2 grown daughters
Robert Gillespie, Glyn Houston, Pauline Yates(not83),
Stacy Dorning, Jenny Quayle(80ab), Sabina Franklyn(81..83)
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Keeping Up Appearances (90,91,92,93x) BBC Roy Clarke
Bossy pretentious woman with embarrassing lower class relatives
Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift, Judy Cornwell, Geoffrey Hughes,
Josephine Tewson, Shirley Stelfox(90)->Mary Millar(not90),
David Griffin(not90)
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Kindly Leave The Kerb (71) ITV(LWT) Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke
London busking escapologist and manager
Peter Jones, Peter Butterworth
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Kinvig (81) ITV(LWT) Nigel Kneale
Electrical repairman and friend obsessed with alien spaceships
Tony Haygarth, Patsy Rowland, Colin Jeavons, Prunella Gee,
Patrick Newell, Simon Williams, Alan Boredham, Stephen Bent,
Danny Schiller
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KYTV (90,91,?92,93) BBC Angus Deayton & Geoffrey Perkins
Spoof satellite tv station. On the sketch show borderline, imho.
Angus Deayton, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Michael Fenton-Stevens,
Philip Pope, Geoffrey Perkins
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L For Lester (82) BBC Dudley Long
Deliberately incompetent driving instructor
Brian Murphy, Amanda Barrie, Richard Vernon, Hilda Braid
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Lame Ducks (84,85) BBC Peter J. Hammond
Group of back-to-nature lovers
Lorraine Chase, John Duttine, Patric Turner
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Land Of Hope And Gloria (92) ITV(Thames) Simon Brett
Marketing a stately home
Sheila Ferguson, Joan Sanderson, Andrew Bicknell
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Langley Bottom (86) ITV(YTV) Barry Cryer & John Junkin
An English village
Bernard Cribbins, Tim Barrett, Don Crann, Elvi Hale, Barbara Hicks,
Rhoda Lewis
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Last Of The Summer Wine
(73p,75,76,77-,x78,79x,82x,83x,x84,85,x86,87x,88x,89x,90x,91,92,93)
BBC Roy Clarke
3 old geezers wander round a Yorkshire town
Bill Owen, Peter Sallis,
Michael Bates->Brian Wilde->Michael Aldridge->Brian Wilde, John Comer,
Mike Grady, Jane Freeman, Kathy Staff, Thora Hird, Jean Alexander,
Robert Fyfe, Juliette Kaplan, Jean Fergusson, Joe Gladwin,
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Late Expectations (87) BBC ?writer
Middle aged woman gets pregnant...
Nanette Newman, Keith Barron, Sara Griffiths
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Laura And Disorder (89) BBC ?writer
Relative returns from USA
Wendy Craig
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Law And Disorder (94) ITV Alex Shearer
A female barrister
Penelope Keith, Simon Williams, Charles Kay, Eamon Boland, John Junkin,
Emma Davies
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Lazarus And Dingwall (91) BBC Kim Fuller and Vicky Pile
Daft cops
Stephen Frost, Mark Arden (The Oblivion Boys), Peter Bland, Race Davies
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Leave It To Charlie (78,79ab,80) ITV(Granada) H V Kershaw
Young overconfident insurance agent prone to good deeds
David Roper, Peter Sallis, Gwen Cherrell
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Leaving (?when) ?channel ?writers
Middle aged couple get divorce.
Keith Barron, Susan Hampshire.
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Let There Be Love (82) ITV(Thames) Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke
Confirmed bachelor falls in love with widowed mother of three
Paul Eddington, Nanette Newman, Henry McGee
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Life Begins At Forty (78,?79,80) ITV(YTV) Jan Butlin
40yr old becomes 1st time dad
Derek Nimmo, Rosemary Leach
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Life With The Lyons (57) ITV ?writer ?sketch show
Scatty Bebe gets everything wrong
Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon
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Life Without George (87,?,?) BBC Penny Croft & Val Hudson
88,89 according to TV's Greatest Hits
Woman rebuilds life after being dumped
Carol Royle, Simon Cadell, Ronald Fraser, Michael Thomas,
Rosalind March(88)->Elizabeth Estensen(89)
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Lollipop (72) ITV(ATV) Jimmy Perry
Followup to Lollipop Loves Mr Mole;
Hugh Lloyd & Peggy Mount
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Lollipop Loves Mr Mole (71) ITV(ATV) Jimmy Perry
Fulham couple; marriage of opposites
Hugh Lloyd & Peggy Mount, Rex Garner
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Love Thy Neighbour (72ab,73- or 73,74 ,75- or 75ab- ,film78)
ITV(Thames) Vince Powell & Harry Driver
Black'n'white neighbors
Rudolph Walker, Jack Smethurst, Kate Williams, Nina Baden-Semper
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Lovely Couple (79) ITV Christopher Wood
Reluctantly engaged couple
<cast>
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Lucky Feller (76) ITV Terence Frisby
Dipstick, driving a bubble car and attempting to woo a blonde
David Jason
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Luna was kid's stuff, really
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Luv (93,94) BBC Carla Lane [comedy drama surely says one: I didn't laugh]
Working class boy made good has communications problems with family
Michael Angelis, Sue Johnston, Sandy Hendrickse, Russell Boulter,
Stephen Lord, Peter Caffrey, Julie Peasgood, Jackie Downey,
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Maggie And Her (78,79) ITV Leonard Webb
Divorced schoolteacher and nosey neighbor
Julia MacKenzie, Irene Handl
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Maid Marian And Her Merry Men (91,92,93,94) BBC Tony Robinson
Marian was the real boss [knockabout kid's stuff really]
Kate Lonergan, Danny John-Jules, Howard Lew Lewis, Tony Robinson
Wayne Morris
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Man About The House (73,74ab&film,75ab,76) ITV(Thames)
Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke
Guy & 2 girls share flat
Richard O'Sullivan, Sally Thomsett, Paula Wilcox
Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce, Doug Fisher
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Marriage Lines (63) BBC Richard Waring
Newlyweds
Richard Briers, Prunella Scales
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May To December (89,90x,91,92,93,94)
BBC(Cinema Verity) Paul A Mendelson, 93:Geoffrey Deane
Old solicitor with young wife (girlfriend in 1st series)
Anton Rodgers, Eve Matheson(to90)->Leslie Dunlop(90onwards),
Frances White, Rebecca Lacey, Paul Venables, Kate Williams,
Chrissie Cotterill, Carolyn Pickles, Clive Francis(89), Ashley Jensen(94)
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Me And My Girl (84,85ab,?tvgh86,87,88ab) ITV(LWT)
John Kane, Bernard McKenna, Colin Bostock-Smith, others
He's in advertising, has a daughter
Richard O'Sullivan, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Joan Sanderson, Joanne Ridley
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Me Mammy (69,70,71) BBC Hugh Leonard
Meek son, dom. mother, dom. sexmad girlfriend, mucho catholic jokes
Milo O'Shea, Yootha Joyce, Anna Manahan, Ray McAnally, David Kelly
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Me, You, And Him (92) ITV Steve Punt & Hugh Dennis + Nick Hancock
3 post-uni guys
Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis, Nick Hancock
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Meet The Wife (64,66) BBC Ronald Wolfe & Ronald Chesney
Couple married 25 years [64 just the Comedy Playhouse pilot?]
Freddie Frinton & Thora Hird
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Megavision (?) ?channel ?writer
TV company
Richard Wilson, Erica Hoffman
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Men Behaving Badly (91,92) ITV(Thames) (94) BBC Simon Nye
Bedsit males
Harry Enfield(91), Neil Morrisey(92->), Martin Clunes, Caroline Quentin,
Leslie Ash
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Men Of Affairs (73) ITV(HTV) Michael Pertwee
Early attempt at a Yes Minister type of show
Brian Rix, Warren Mitchell
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Men Of The World (94) BBC(Alomo) Daniel Peacock
Know-it-all estate agent passes "wisdom" to lodger
David Threlfall, John Simm
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Mess Mates (60,61,62) ITV(Granada) Talbot Rothwell & Lew Schwarz
Crew of the SS Guernsey
Archie Duncan, Victor Maddern, Sam Kydd, Fulton Mackay, Dermot Kelly
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Metal Mickey has been adjudged as kid's stuff
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Middlemen (77) BBC Alan Plater [?sitcom]
Prosthetic toenail salesman
Frank Windsor, Francis Matthews, Avril Elgar
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Mike And Bernie (71-) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell & Harry Driver
Down-and-out music-hall act tries for a comeback
Mike and Bernie Winters
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Mind Your Language (77-,78,79,80:3eps only) ITV(LWT) Vince Powell
English classes for immigrants, very non-PC
Barry Evans, Francoise Pascal, Zara Nutley, Jacki Harding
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Minder has been adjudged a comedy-drama: a rather good one!
1st series started Oct79; final series started Jan94.
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Misfits (81) ITV(YTV) Eric Chappell
2 drifters sheltered by widow
Anne Stallybrass, Enn Reitel, Kevin Lloyd
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Misleading Cases (?) ?BBC2 ?APHerbert:original Punch articles/book
Man conducts own defence in series of slightly wacky cases
Roy Dotrice, Alistair Sim
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Miss Jones And Son (77) ITV(Thames) Richard Waring
Single mum
Paula Wilcox, Luke Steensil, Cass Allen, Charlotte Mitchell, Norman Bird,
David Savile, Catherine Kirkwood
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Mixed Blessings (78ab,80) ITV(LWT) Sid Green
Mixed race marriage [US version Bridget loves Bernie shown in UK?]
Muriel Odunton, Christopher Blake, Joan Sanderson
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Mog (85,86) ITV(Central) Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais.
Based on a book by Peter Tinniswood.
Comedy adventures of a petty crook hiding out in a mental institution
Enn Reitel.
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Moody And Pegg (74,75) ITV(Thames) Donald Churchill & Julia Jones
2 people both have apparently valid lease on flat so share
Judy Cornwell, Derek Waring, Terence Alexander
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Mornin' Sarge (?) BBC ?writer
Loony cop-shop
Tony Haas, Robin Driscoll, Paul Brooke
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Morris Minor's Marvellous Motors (89) BBC ?writer
Singing idiots fix cars
Tony Hawkes
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Mother's Ruin (94) ITV John Stevenson
50yr old bachelor with girlfriend and dragon-tongued mother
Roy Barraclough, Dora Bryan, Julia Deakin, Kay Adshead, Jason Done
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Moving (85) ITV ?writer
Moving house
Penelope Keith, Ronald Pickup
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Moving Story (94) ITV Jack Rosenthal and other writers including:
Bill Gallagher, Willis Hall
Team of removals men (billed as comdram but fits my sitcom def quite well)
Warren Clarke, Philip Davis, Con O'Neill, Ronny Jhutti, Kenneth Colley,
Sheila Kelley, Melanie Kilburn, Meera Devon, Emma Amos
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Mr Aitch (67) ITV(AR) Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais
Mr Aitch owns half a house on a bomb site
Harry H Corbett, Norman Chappell, Gordon Gostelow
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Mr Bean doesn't quite fit the sitcom definition but deserves a mention
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Mr Big (77ab) BBC Peter Jones & Christopher Bond
Criminal mastermind
Peter Jones, Prunella Scales, Ian Lavender, Carol Hawkins
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Mr Digby Darling (69,70-) ITV(YTV) Ken Hoare & Mike Sharland
Rid-o-rat pesticide company
Sheila Hancock, Peter Jones, Michael Bates
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Mr Don And Mr George (93) C4 Jack Docherty & Moray Hunter
Surreal
Jack Docherty, Moray Hunter
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Mrs Thursday (66,67) ITV(ATV) Ted Willis also Robin Smyth
Charlady made chair of company; "one hour light drama"
Kathleen Harris
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Mulberry (92,93) BBC John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
Grim reaper's apprentice has soft heart
Karl Howman, Geraldine McEwan, Tony Selby, Mary Healey
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Mum's Boys (68) BBC Jimmy Grafton & Jeremy Lloyd
Ex-chorus girl and conjuror's assistant has 2 sons (by different fathers?)
Irene Handl, Bernard Bresslaw, Pete Murray
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My Brother's Keeper (75,76) ITV(Granada) Jonathan Lynn, George Layton
Nowhere-near identical twin brothers: student and policeman
Jonathan Lynn, George Layton, Hilary Mason, Tenniel Evans
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My Dead Dad (92) C4 ?writer
TV producer haunted by embarrassing father
TV adaptation of the stage play "Dead Dog Dad": ergo ?not a sitcom?.
Forbes Masson, Roy Hanlon
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My Good Woman (72ab,73-) ITV(ATV) Ronnie Taylor
Man believes himself in decline, wife is champion do-gooder
Leslie Crowther, Sylvia Sims, Keith Barron
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My Honourable Mrs (75) BBC Richard Waring
<synopsis>
Derek Nimmo, Pauline Yates
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My Husband And I (87,88) ITV(Yorkshire) ?writer
Personnel Officer gets retired husband job as Commissionaire at her work
Mollie Sugden, William Moore, Deddie Davies and Carol Hawkins.
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My Name Is Harry Worth (74) ITV(Thames) Ronnie Taylor
Harry Worth as himself living in digs
Harry Worth, Lally Bowers
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My Old Man (74,75) ITV(YTV) Gerald Frow
Crusty old war veteran lives with daughter & her husband in flat
Clive Dunn, Priscilla Morgan, Edward Hardwicke
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My Son Reuben (74[tvgh75]) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell
Dry cleaner with stereotypical overbearing Jewish mother
Bernard Spear, Lila Kaye
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My Wife Next Door (72,73,80) BBC Richard Waring
Newly divorced couple have neighboring cottages
John Alderton, Hannah Gordon
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Game On (94) BBC(Hat Trick) Andrew Davies
<synopsis>
Ben Chaplin, Matthew Cottle, Samantha Janus
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George And Mildred (76,77ab,78ab,79,80film,81) ITV(Thames)
Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke
Hen pecked husband scenario, spin off from Man About the House
Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce, Norman Eshley, Sheila Fearn,
Nicholas Bond-Owen
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George And The Dragon (66,67,68ab) ITV(ATV) Harry Driver & Vince Powell
Chauffeur & housekeeper
Peggy Mount, Sid James, John Le Mesurier, Keith Marsh
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Get Back (92,93) BBC(Alomo, 93 at least) Lawrence Marks & Maurice Gran
93:some eps Gary Lawson & John Phelps
Working class brothers who made it are hit by recession and have to
return to the council estate
Larry Lamb, Ray Winstone, Carol Harrison
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Get Some In! (75,76,77,78) ITV John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
National Service: new recruits to RAF
Tony Selby, David Janson, Robert Lindsay, Gerald Ryder, Brian Pettifer
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Get The Drift (71) BBC ?writer [?sitcom, or club/standup]
"Mild and bitter humour" [The Times, 30.vii & 13.viii.71]
Henry Livings, Alex Glasgow
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Girls About Town (p69,70,71) ITV(ATV) Adele Rose
2 housewives with 7 year itch (69 pilot diff cast)
Julie Stevens, Denise Coffey, Robin Parkinson, Peter Baldwin
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Girls On Top (85,86) ITV(Central) Dawn French & Jennifer Saunders
Four mismatched girls share a flat
Tracey Ullman, Jennifer Saunders, Ruby Wax, Dawn French, Joan Greenwood,
Helen Atkinson Wood, Helen Lederer, Alan Rickman
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Going Straight (78) BBC Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais
Porridge sequel: Fletcher gets out of jail
Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Patricia Brake
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Goodbye, Mr Kent (82) BBC Peter Vincent & Peter Robinson
Lodger won't leave
Hannah Gordon, Richard Briers, Talla Hayes
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Goodnight And God Bless (83) ITV(Central) Donald Churchill & Joe McGrath
Remarried ex-standup comic is successful game show host, inwardly shy
Donald Churchill, Judy Loe
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Goodnight Sweetheart (93) BBC Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran
TV repairman timeslips to 1943
Nicholas Lyndhurst, Derula Kirwan, Michelle Holmes
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Grace And Favour (92,93) BBC Jeremy Lloyd & David Croft
{retitled in USA: "Are You Being Served? Again!"}
Are You Being Served spinoff: big country house
Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Frank Thornton, Wendy Richard, Nicholas Smith,
Fleur Bennett, Billy Burden, Joanne Heywood, Michael Bilton
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Grandad has been adjudged kid's stuff
#
Grundy (80) ITV(Thames) Ken Hoare
Life-long puritan newsagent comes face-to-face with the permissive society
Harry H. Corbett(last tv series), Lynda Baron, David Janson
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Haggard (90,92) ITV Eric Chappell
Tudorbethan/regency/georgian(you choose) spendthrift squire
Keith Barron, Reece Dinsdale, Sam Kelly
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Hallelujah (83,84) ITV(YTV) Dick Sharples
Salvation Army captain attempts to clean up Yorkshire town
Thora Hird, David Daker, Patsy Rowlands
#
Hancock
61 - BBC Galton and Simpson.
63 - ITV(ATV) Godfrey Harrison, Richard Harris & Dennis Spooner,
Terry Nation
66 and 67 series were sketch/variety
Morose person
Tony Hancock
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Hancock's Half Hour (56,57ab,59-ab,60) BBC Ray Galton & Alan Simpson
Morose person vs. the world
Tony Hancock, Sid James, Hugh Lloyd, June Whitfield, Kenneth Williams(1st
2 seasons), Hattie Jacques(occasional)
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Happy Ever After (76,77,78) BBC John Chapman and Eric Merriman(76)
writers vary in 2nd and 3rd series
Suburban couple
Terry Scott, June Whitfield
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Happy Families (85) BBC Ben Elton
Attempts to find scattered family members
Jennifer Saunders, Ade Edmondson, Dawn French, Stephen Fry
#
Hardwicke House (87or earlier?) ITV(Central)
?writer(ex comprehensive school teacher)
Makes Grange Hill look like a kindergarten for angels: banned after 2 eps
Roy Kinnear, Granville Saxton
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Harry Worth (67,68,69?) BBC Ronny Taylor
Single man on edge of middle age finds life in East Cheam confusing
Harry Worth
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Have I Got You ... Where You Want Me? (81) ITV Philip Harland & Paul Harris.
Still 'going steady' after 10 years
Ian Lavender, Kim Braden, Ray Lonnen
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Health And Efficiency (-94) BBC Andrew Marshall
Surgical team B versus the cuts, the illnesses, and each other
Gary Olsen, Felicity Montagu, Roger Lloyd Pack, Deborah Norton,
Victor McGuire, Adjoa Andoh, Samantha Janus, Walter Sparrow, Ann Payot
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Hello Cheeky was a sketch show.
#
Hell's Bells (86) BBC Jan Butlin
Trendy bishop vs. traditionalist dean
Derek Nimmo, Robert Stephens, Susan Jameson, Phyllida Law
#
Help! (86,88) BBC ?writer
Four no-hoper dole-ite scousers
Jake Abrahams, Craig Charles
#
Her Majesty's Pleasure (69) ITV(Granada) Leslie Duxbury
Prison warders feel trapped too
Ken Jones, John Sharp, John Nettleton, John Normington, Tommy Mann,
Neville Smith
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Here's Harry (61,62?,63,64) BBC Vince Powell & Harry Driver
, Frank Roscoe, & others
Nice chap, Harry, but a bit of a bumbler
Harry Worth
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Hi-De-Hi! (p80,81ab-,82-,83-,x85,86,87,88) BBC Jimmy Perry & David Croft
Holiday camp
Paul Shane, Su Pollard, Ruth Madoc, Simon Cadell(-84), Jeffrey Holland,
David Griffin(85-?), Diane Holland, Barry Howard, Nikki Kelly,
Rikki Howard, Felix Bowness, Leslie Dwyer, The Webb Twins,
Chris Andrews, Susan Beagley
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High And Dry (87) ITV ?writer
Bloke buys a derelict pier in 1946
Bernard Cribbins, Richard Wilson, Vivienne Martin, Angus Barnett
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Hilary (84,86) BBC Peter Robinson & Peter Vincent
Talk show producer's assistant
Marti Caine, Philip Madoc, Jack Smethurst, Carolyn Moody, Philip Fox,
Owen Whittaker
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His And Hers (70,72) ITV(Yorkshire) Ken Hoare & Mike Sharland
Freelance journalist stays home, accountant wife works in the City
Ronald Lewis, Sue Lloyd->Barbara Murray, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Madeline Smith,
Norman Rossington
#
His Lordship Entertains (72) BBC Jonathon(sp?) Cobbold = Ronnie Barker
Lord converts ancestral home into hotel.
Ronnie Barker, Josephine Tewson, David Jason
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HMS Paradise (64) ITV(AR) Maurice Wiltshire
Royal Navy
Richard Caldicott, Robin Hunter, Ronald Radd, Frank Thornton
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Holding The Fort (81,82) ITV(LWT) Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran
She's in the army, he stays home with the baby and brews beer
Patricia Hodge, Peter Davison, Matthew Kelly
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Home James (87,88,89,90 or is that 89-90?) ITV Geoff McQueen
Chauffeur; Spin off from "Up the Elephant and Round the Castle"
Jim Davidson, George Sewell, Harry Towb.
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Home To Roost (85,86,87,89-) ITV(Yorkshire) Eric Chappell
Son comes to live with long-divorced father
John Thaw, Reece Dinsdale
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Honey For Tea (94) BBC Michael Aitkens
American widow takes 20yr old son to college in Cambridge
Felicity Kendal, Nigel Le Vaillant, Leslie Phillips, Alan David,
Patrick McCollough
#
Honky Tonk Heroes (81) ITV ?writer
S London Country&Western club
James Grout, Sheila Steafel
#
Horace is listed as drama in Television's Greatest Hits
#
Hope It Rains (91,92) ITV(Thames) John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
Seaside waxworks owner and orphaned late teens god-daughter
Tom Bell, Holly Aird, Eamon Boland
#
Horne A'Plenty was a sketch show
#
Hot Metal (86,88) ITV(LWT) Andrew Marshall & David Renwick
Tabloid circulation wars
Richard Wilson(88), Robert Hardy, Geoffrey Palmer(86), Richard Kane,
Geoffrey Hutchings, John Gordon-Sinclair (86), Caroline Milmoe (88)
#
How's Your Father? (74) ITV ?writer
Aging father lives with daughter and her husband
Sheila Steafel, Arthur English, Michael Robbins
#
How's Your Father? (74,75) ITV(Granada) John Stevenson
The Cropper family
Michael Robbins, Barbara Young, Nicholas Hoye, Georgina Moon,
Arthur English
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How's Your Father? (79,80) ITV(YTV) Pam Valentine & Michael Ashton
Widower with 2 teenage children
Harry Worth, Debbie Cumming, Giles Watling
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Hugh And I (62...66 6series(more?)) BBC John Chapman (? & Eric Merriman ?)
Two friends from Lobelia Avenue, Tooting
Hugh Lloyd, Terry Scott, Mollie Sugden, Wendy Richard
#
Hugh And I Spy (?) ?channel ?writer
<synopsis>
Hugh Lloyd, Terry Scott
#
I Didn't Know You Cared (75,76,78,79) BBC Peter Tinniswood
The Brandons - happily miserable north country folk
Robin Bailey, John Comer, Liz Smith, Anita Carey, Stephen Rea
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I Thought You'd Gone (84) ITV(Central) Peter Jones & Ken Laffan
Couple move to country from Croydon after kids leave home
Peter Jones, Pat Heywood
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I Woke Up One Morning (85) BBC Carla Lane
Alcoholism
<cast>
#
I, Lovett (93) BBC Norman Lovett & Ian Pattison
Eccentric inventor and his cynical talking dog
Norman Lovett, Sara Cooper, Dicken Ashworth, voices of Geoffrey Hughes,
Leon Sinden, Mary Riggans, Bernard Cribbins, Ian Sexon
#
If It Moves--File It (70) ITV(LWT) Troy Kennedy Martin
Bungling bureaucrats
John Bird, Dudley Foster, John Nettleton
#
In For A Penny (72) ITV(LWT) John Hawkesworth & John Whitney
Humiliations of an old man in the lowly job of lavatory attendant
Bob Todd, Jack Woolgar
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In Loving Memory (p69Thames,79,80,82,83-,86) ITV(Yorkshire) Dick Sharples
Aunt & nephew run funeral parlour
Thora Hird, Christopher Beeny
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In Sickness And In Health (85,86,87,89,90,92) BBC Johnny Speight
Till Death Do Us Part spinoff
Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols(at first), Carmel McSharry, Arthur English
#
Inside George Webley (70) ITV(YTV) Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall
Worrier
Roy Kinnear, Patsy Rowland
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum (75,76,77,78,80,81) BBC Jimmy Perry & David Croft
British army concert party in WW2 Burma
Windsor Davies, John Clegg, Michael Bates, Melvyn Hayes, George Layton,
Michael Knowles, Don Estelle, Donald Hewlett
#
It Takes A Worried Man (81,83) ITV Peter Tilbury
Mid life crisis
Peter Tilbury, Christopher Benjamin, Nicholas Le Prevost,
Sue Holderness(83)
#
It's Awfully Bad For Your Eyes, Darling (71) BBC
Jilly Cooper & Christopher Bond
Four dollies in a flat (based on J Cooper's newspaper cartoon strip)
Jane Carr, Jennifer Croxton, Elizabeth Knight, Joanna Lumley,
Jeremy Lloyd
#
Jeeves And Wooster (90,91,92,93) ITV(Granada) P.G.Wodehouse, dram Clive Exton
Valet saves youngish aristocrat from scrapes
Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Robert Daws, Elizabeth Spriggs, Mary Wimbush
Adam Blackwood, Francesca Folan->Elizabeth Morton, Roger Brierley
Richard Garnett->Richard Brain, John Turner, Ralph Michael
Michael Siberry->Pip Torrens, Brenda Bruce->Patricia Lawrence
#
Joan And Leslie (57-) ITV ?writer [?sitcom or sketch]]
<synopsis>
Leslie Randall, Joan Reynolds
#
John Browne's Body (69) ITV(ATV) Rene Basilico
Bungling female detective
Peggy Mount, Naunton Wayne
#
Joint Account (89,90,91) BBC Don Webb
Female bank manager
Hannah Gordon, Peter Egan, John Bird
#
Joking Apart (93) BBC(Pola Jones) Steven Moffatt
Divorce
Robert Bathurst, Fiona Gillies, Tracie Bennett, Paul Raffield
#
Just A Gigolo (93) ITV Carl Graham & Michael Hatt & Amanda Swift
Ex-teacher becomes paid escort
Tony Slattery, Paul Bigley, Rowena King, Wanda Ventham
#
Just Good Friends (83,84x,?85?,86) BBC John Sullivan
On/off relationship
Paul Nicholas, Jan Francis
#
Just Jimmy (68) ITV(ABC) Ron McDonnell
TV version of The Clitheroe Kid
Jimmy Clitheroe, Mollie Sugden, Danny Ross
#
Just Liz (80) ITV(Thames) John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
Girl awaits fiance's return from Bahrain
Sandra Payne, Rodney Bewes, Gorden Kaye, Terence Alexander, Avril Angers
#
Just William (early 60s) ?channel Richmal Crompton, dramatised by ?
Richmal Crompton's famous stories
Dennis Waterman
#
Just William (77ab-) ITV(LWT) Richmal Crompton, dramatised by ?
Richmal Crompton's famous stories
Adrian Dannatt, Bonnie Langford, Diana Dors
#
Keep It In The Family (71) ITV(YTV) David Nobbs & Peter Vincent
Couple have one parent each living with them
Tim Barrett, Vivienne Martin, Joyce Grant, Jack Haig
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Keep It In The Family (80ab,81,82,83) ITV(Thames) Brian Cooke(80a,80b)
81:eps Brian Cooke, David Barry, Peter Learmouth, Dave & Greg Freeman
82:eps Dave & Greg Freeman, Peter Learmouth, David Barry
83: Dave & Greg Freeman
Procrastinating cartoonist with 2 grown daughters
Robert Gillespie, Glyn Houston, Pauline Yates(not83),
Stacy Dorning, Jenny Quayle(80ab), Sabina Franklyn(81..83)
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Keeping Up Appearances (90,91,92,93x) BBC Roy Clarke
Bossy pretentious woman with embarrassing lower class relatives
Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift, Judy Cornwell, Geoffrey Hughes,
Josephine Tewson, Shirley Stelfox(90)->Mary Millar(not90),
David Griffin(not90)
#
Kindly Leave The Kerb (71) ITV(LWT) Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke
London busking escapologist and manager
Peter Jones, Peter Butterworth
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Kinvig (81) ITV(LWT) Nigel Kneale
Electrical repairman and friend obsessed with alien spaceships
Tony Haygarth, Patsy Rowland, Colin Jeavons, Prunella Gee,
Patrick Newell, Simon Williams, Alan Boredham, Stephen Bent,
Danny Schiller
#
KYTV (90,91,?92,93) BBC Angus Deayton & Geoffrey Perkins
Spoof satellite tv station. On the sketch show borderline, imho.
Angus Deayton, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Michael Fenton-Stevens,
Philip Pope, Geoffrey Perkins
#
L For Lester (82) BBC Dudley Long
Deliberately incompetent driving instructor
Brian Murphy, Amanda Barrie, Richard Vernon, Hilda Braid
#
Lame Ducks (84,85) BBC Peter J. Hammond
Group of back-to-nature lovers
Lorraine Chase, John Duttine, Patric Turner
#
Land Of Hope And Gloria (92) ITV(Thames) Simon Brett
Marketing a stately home
Sheila Ferguson, Joan Sanderson, Andrew Bicknell
#
Langley Bottom (86) ITV(YTV) Barry Cryer & John Junkin
An English village
Bernard Cribbins, Tim Barrett, Don Crann, Elvi Hale, Barbara Hicks,
Rhoda Lewis
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Last Of The Summer Wine
(73p,75,76,77-,x78,79x,82x,83x,x84,85,x86,87x,88x,89x,90x,91,92,93)
BBC Roy Clarke
3 old geezers wander round a Yorkshire town
Bill Owen, Peter Sallis,
Michael Bates->Brian Wilde->Michael Aldridge->Brian Wilde, John Comer,
Mike Grady, Jane Freeman, Kathy Staff, Thora Hird, Jean Alexander,
Robert Fyfe, Juliette Kaplan, Jean Fergusson, Joe Gladwin,
#
Late Expectations (87) BBC ?writer
Middle aged woman gets pregnant...
Nanette Newman, Keith Barron, Sara Griffiths
#
Laura And Disorder (89) BBC ?writer
Relative returns from USA
Wendy Craig
#
Law And Disorder (94) ITV Alex Shearer
A female barrister
Penelope Keith, Simon Williams, Charles Kay, Eamon Boland, John Junkin,
Emma Davies
#
Lazarus And Dingwall (91) BBC Kim Fuller and Vicky Pile
Daft cops
Stephen Frost, Mark Arden (The Oblivion Boys), Peter Bland, Race Davies
#
Leave It To Charlie (78,79ab,80) ITV(Granada) H V Kershaw
Young overconfident insurance agent prone to good deeds
David Roper, Peter Sallis, Gwen Cherrell
#
Leaving (?when) ?channel ?writers
Middle aged couple get divorce.
Keith Barron, Susan Hampshire.
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Let There Be Love (82) ITV(Thames) Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke
Confirmed bachelor falls in love with widowed mother of three
Paul Eddington, Nanette Newman, Henry McGee
#
Life Begins At Forty (78,?79,80) ITV(YTV) Jan Butlin
40yr old becomes 1st time dad
Derek Nimmo, Rosemary Leach
#
Life With The Lyons (57) ITV ?writer ?sketch show
Scatty Bebe gets everything wrong
Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon
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Life Without George (87,?,?) BBC Penny Croft & Val Hudson
88,89 according to TV's Greatest Hits
Woman rebuilds life after being dumped
Carol Royle, Simon Cadell, Ronald Fraser, Michael Thomas,
Rosalind March(88)->Elizabeth Estensen(89)
#
Lollipop (72) ITV(ATV) Jimmy Perry
Followup to Lollipop Loves Mr Mole;
Hugh Lloyd & Peggy Mount
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Lollipop Loves Mr Mole (71) ITV(ATV) Jimmy Perry
Fulham couple; marriage of opposites
Hugh Lloyd & Peggy Mount, Rex Garner
#
Love Thy Neighbour (72ab,73- or 73,74 ,75- or 75ab- ,film78)
ITV(Thames) Vince Powell & Harry Driver
Black'n'white neighbors
Rudolph Walker, Jack Smethurst, Kate Williams, Nina Baden-Semper
#
Lovely Couple (79) ITV Christopher Wood
Reluctantly engaged couple
<cast>
#
Lucky Feller (76) ITV Terence Frisby
Dipstick, driving a bubble car and attempting to woo a blonde
David Jason
#
Luna was kid's stuff, really
#
Luv (93,94) BBC Carla Lane [comedy drama surely says one: I didn't laugh]
Working class boy made good has communications problems with family
Michael Angelis, Sue Johnston, Sandy Hendrickse, Russell Boulter,
Stephen Lord, Peter Caffrey, Julie Peasgood, Jackie Downey,
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Maggie And Her (78,79) ITV Leonard Webb
Divorced schoolteacher and nosey neighbor
Julia MacKenzie, Irene Handl
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Maid Marian And Her Merry Men (91,92,93,94) BBC Tony Robinson
Marian was the real boss [knockabout kid's stuff really]
Kate Lonergan, Danny John-Jules, Howard Lew Lewis, Tony Robinson
Wayne Morris
#
Man About The House (73,74ab&film,75ab,76) ITV(Thames)
Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke
Guy & 2 girls share flat
Richard O'Sullivan, Sally Thomsett, Paula Wilcox
Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce, Doug Fisher
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Marriage Lines (63) BBC Richard Waring
Newlyweds
Richard Briers, Prunella Scales
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May To December (89,90x,91,92,93,94)
BBC(Cinema Verity) Paul A Mendelson, 93:Geoffrey Deane
Old solicitor with young wife (girlfriend in 1st series)
Anton Rodgers, Eve Matheson(to90)->Leslie Dunlop(90onwards),
Frances White, Rebecca Lacey, Paul Venables, Kate Williams,
Chrissie Cotterill, Carolyn Pickles, Clive Francis(89), Ashley Jensen(94)
#
Me And My Girl (84,85ab,?tvgh86,87,88ab) ITV(LWT)
John Kane, Bernard McKenna, Colin Bostock-Smith, others
He's in advertising, has a daughter
Richard O'Sullivan, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Joan Sanderson, Joanne Ridley
#
Me Mammy (69,70,71) BBC Hugh Leonard
Meek son, dom. mother, dom. sexmad girlfriend, mucho catholic jokes
Milo O'Shea, Yootha Joyce, Anna Manahan, Ray McAnally, David Kelly
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Me, You, And Him (92) ITV Steve Punt & Hugh Dennis + Nick Hancock
3 post-uni guys
Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis, Nick Hancock
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Meet The Wife (64,66) BBC Ronald Wolfe & Ronald Chesney
Couple married 25 years [64 just the Comedy Playhouse pilot?]
Freddie Frinton & Thora Hird
#
Megavision (?) ?channel ?writer
TV company
Richard Wilson, Erica Hoffman
#
Men Behaving Badly (91,92) ITV(Thames) (94) BBC Simon Nye
Bedsit males
Harry Enfield(91), Neil Morrisey(92->), Martin Clunes, Caroline Quentin,
Leslie Ash
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Men Of Affairs (73) ITV(HTV) Michael Pertwee
Early attempt at a Yes Minister type of show
Brian Rix, Warren Mitchell
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Men Of The World (94) BBC(Alomo) Daniel Peacock
Know-it-all estate agent passes "wisdom" to lodger
David Threlfall, John Simm
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Mess Mates (60,61,62) ITV(Granada) Talbot Rothwell & Lew Schwarz
Crew of the SS Guernsey
Archie Duncan, Victor Maddern, Sam Kydd, Fulton Mackay, Dermot Kelly
#
Metal Mickey has been adjudged as kid's stuff
#
Middlemen (77) BBC Alan Plater [?sitcom]
Prosthetic toenail salesman
Frank Windsor, Francis Matthews, Avril Elgar
#
Mike And Bernie (71-) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell & Harry Driver
Down-and-out music-hall act tries for a comeback
Mike and Bernie Winters
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Mind Your Language (77-,78,79,80:3eps only) ITV(LWT) Vince Powell
English classes for immigrants, very non-PC
Barry Evans, Francoise Pascal, Zara Nutley, Jacki Harding
#
Minder has been adjudged a comedy-drama: a rather good one!
1st series started Oct79; final series started Jan94.
#
Misfits (81) ITV(YTV) Eric Chappell
2 drifters sheltered by widow
Anne Stallybrass, Enn Reitel, Kevin Lloyd
#
Misleading Cases (?) ?BBC2 ?APHerbert:original Punch articles/book
Man conducts own defence in series of slightly wacky cases
Roy Dotrice, Alistair Sim
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Miss Jones And Son (77) ITV(Thames) Richard Waring
Single mum
Paula Wilcox, Luke Steensil, Cass Allen, Charlotte Mitchell, Norman Bird,
David Savile, Catherine Kirkwood
#
Mixed Blessings (78ab,80) ITV(LWT) Sid Green
Mixed race marriage [US version Bridget loves Bernie shown in UK?]
Muriel Odunton, Christopher Blake, Joan Sanderson
#
Mog (85,86) ITV(Central) Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais.
Based on a book by Peter Tinniswood.
Comedy adventures of a petty crook hiding out in a mental institution
Enn Reitel.
#
Moody And Pegg (74,75) ITV(Thames) Donald Churchill & Julia Jones
2 people both have apparently valid lease on flat so share
Judy Cornwell, Derek Waring, Terence Alexander
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Mornin' Sarge (?) BBC ?writer
Loony cop-shop
Tony Haas, Robin Driscoll, Paul Brooke
#
Morris Minor's Marvellous Motors (89) BBC ?writer
Singing idiots fix cars
Tony Hawkes
#
Mother's Ruin (94) ITV John Stevenson
50yr old bachelor with girlfriend and dragon-tongued mother
Roy Barraclough, Dora Bryan, Julia Deakin, Kay Adshead, Jason Done
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Moving (85) ITV ?writer
Moving house
Penelope Keith, Ronald Pickup
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Moving Story (94) ITV Jack Rosenthal and other writers including:
Bill Gallagher, Willis Hall
Team of removals men (billed as comdram but fits my sitcom def quite well)
Warren Clarke, Philip Davis, Con O'Neill, Ronny Jhutti, Kenneth Colley,
Sheila Kelley, Melanie Kilburn, Meera Devon, Emma Amos
#
Mr Aitch (67) ITV(AR) Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais
Mr Aitch owns half a house on a bomb site
Harry H Corbett, Norman Chappell, Gordon Gostelow
#
Mr Bean doesn't quite fit the sitcom definition but deserves a mention
#
Mr Big (77ab) BBC Peter Jones & Christopher Bond
Criminal mastermind
Peter Jones, Prunella Scales, Ian Lavender, Carol Hawkins
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Mr Digby Darling (69,70-) ITV(YTV) Ken Hoare & Mike Sharland
Rid-o-rat pesticide company
Sheila Hancock, Peter Jones, Michael Bates
#
Mr Don And Mr George (93) C4 Jack Docherty & Moray Hunter
Surreal
Jack Docherty, Moray Hunter
#
Mrs Thursday (66,67) ITV(ATV) Ted Willis also Robin Smyth
Charlady made chair of company; "one hour light drama"
Kathleen Harris
#
Mulberry (92,93) BBC John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
Grim reaper's apprentice has soft heart
Karl Howman, Geraldine McEwan, Tony Selby, Mary Healey
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Mum's Boys (68) BBC Jimmy Grafton & Jeremy Lloyd
Ex-chorus girl and conjuror's assistant has 2 sons (by different fathers?)
Irene Handl, Bernard Bresslaw, Pete Murray
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My Brother's Keeper (75,76) ITV(Granada) Jonathan Lynn, George Layton
Nowhere-near identical twin brothers: student and policeman
Jonathan Lynn, George Layton, Hilary Mason, Tenniel Evans
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My Dead Dad (92) C4 ?writer
TV producer haunted by embarrassing father
TV adaptation of the stage play "Dead Dog Dad": ergo ?not a sitcom?.
Forbes Masson, Roy Hanlon
#
My Good Woman (72ab,73-) ITV(ATV) Ronnie Taylor
Man believes himself in decline, wife is champion do-gooder
Leslie Crowther, Sylvia Sims, Keith Barron
#
My Honourable Mrs (75) BBC Richard Waring
<synopsis>
Derek Nimmo, Pauline Yates
#
My Husband And I (87,88) ITV(Yorkshire) ?writer
Personnel Officer gets retired husband job as Commissionaire at her work
Mollie Sugden, William Moore, Deddie Davies and Carol Hawkins.
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My Name Is Harry Worth (74) ITV(Thames) Ronnie Taylor
Harry Worth as himself living in digs
Harry Worth, Lally Bowers
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My Old Man (74,75) ITV(YTV) Gerald Frow
Crusty old war veteran lives with daughter & her husband in flat
Clive Dunn, Priscilla Morgan, Edward Hardwicke
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My Son Reuben (74[tvgh75]) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell
Dry cleaner with stereotypical overbearing Jewish mother
Bernard Spear, Lila Kaye
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My Wife Next Door (72,73,80) BBC Richard Waring
Newly divorced couple have neighboring cottages
John Alderton, Hannah Gordon
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