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The Definitive UK Sitcom List, part A-F
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The Definitive UK Sitcom List, part A-F: 786 lines, updated 940930
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2point4 Children (91,92,93,94) BBC Andrew Marshall
Average family encounter bizarre situations
Belinda Lang, Gary Olsen, Julia Hills, John Pickard,
Claire Woodgate(91,92)->Clare Buckfield(93->)
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A Bit Of A Do (89,91? was:91ab) ITV(Yorkshire) David Nobbs
Group of people go through complex series of relationships
David Jason, Nicola Pagett, Gwen Taylor, Michael Jayston, Tim Wylton,
Stephanie Cole, David Thewlis, Sara-Jane Holm, Wayne Foskett,
Nigel Hastings, Karen Drury, Malcolm Hebden, Tracy Brabin
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A Class By Himself (72) ITV(HTV) ?writer
Stately home in Somerset
John Le Mesurier, Peter Butterworth
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A Fine Romance (81,82,83,84) ITV(LWT) Bob Larbey
Prickly relationship
Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Susan Penhaligon, Geoffrey Rose(81),
Richard Warwick
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A Little Big Business (63,64) ITV(Granada) Paul Jackman, Jack Pullman
The furniture business
David Kossoff, Francis Matthews, David Conville, Joyce Marlowe,
Martin Miller, Billy Russell
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A Present For Dickie (69-) ITV Jimmy Grafton & Johnny Hayward
Mother-in-law syndrome
Dickie Henderson, Fabia Drake, June Laverick, Billy Burden, Jerry Ram,
Dennis Ramsden
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A Roof Over My Head (77) BBC ?writer
[?sitcom]<synopsis>
Brian Rix, Lynda Baron, Francis Matthews
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A Sharp Intake Of Breath (78,79,80,81) ITV(ATV) Ronnie Taylor
David Jason as the little man battling against authority
David Jason, Jacqueline Clarke, Richard Wilson, Alun Armstrong
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A Small Problem (87) BBC ?writer
Heightist apartheid
Michael Ryan
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A Soft Touch (78) ITV ?writer
<synopsis>
John Flanagan, Maureen Lipman
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A Touch Of Spice (89) BBC ?writer
2 young women start a catering company
<cast>
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A Very Peculiar Practice (86,88) BBC Andrew Davies [?sitcom?comdram?]
special: A Very Polish Practice - Davison, Troughton, Kanska
University docs: nice guy, nasty tory, old alcy, manipulative feminist
Peter Davison, David Troughton, Graham Crowden, Barbara Flynn,
Amanada Hillwood(86+1ep), Joanna Kanska(88)
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A.J.Wentworth BA (82) ITV(Thames) Basil Boothroyd from stories by H F Ellis
School maths master and the dreaded third form
Arthur Lowe (his last television role), Harry Andrews, Marion Mathie
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A.P.Herbert's Misleading Cases (71) BBC1 ?writer [?sitcom]
<synopsis>
Alastair Sim, Roy Dotrice, Avice Landon, Thorley Walters
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Absolutely Fabulous (92,94) BBC Jennifer Saunders
Magazine fashion exec (ie pretentious workshy hedonist 'society' type)
Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Jane Horrocks, Julia Sawalha,
June Whitfield, Kathy Burke
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After Henry (87,88/89?) ITV(Thames) Simon Brett {straight copy of R4 version}
Widow has daughter upstairs and mother downstairs
Prunella Scales, Joan Sanderson, Janine Wood, Jonathan Newth
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Agony (79,80,81) ITV(LWT) Len Richmond & Anna Raeburn (79),
Stan Hey and Andrew Nickolds (80,81)
About an agony-aunt
Maureen Lipman, Simon Williams, Maria Charles
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Ain't Misbehavin' (94) BBC Roy Clarke
Eternal quadrangle
Peter Davison, Nicola Pagett, Lesley Manville, John Duttine,
Polly Hemingway
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Albert! (72) ITV(Yorkshire) Rodney Bewes & Derrick Goodwin
Continuation of Dear Mother . . . Love Albert (which see)
Rodney Bewes, Cheryl Hall, Garfield Morgan
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Albert And Victoria (70,71) ITV(Yorkshire) Reuben Ship
Legacy has strings attached
Frances Bennett, Alfred Marks, Gay Hamilton, Petra Markham, John Alkin
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Alcock And Gander (72) ITV(Thames) Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke
Marriage-bureau-cum-Tom O'Thimble Lucky Pixie shop
Beryl Reid, Richard O'Sullivan, John Cater
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Alexander The Greatest (71,72) ITV(ATV) Bernard Kops
Inducements keep 16yr old rebel at home: domestic mayhem
Sydney Tafler, Libby Morris, Garry Warren, Adrienne Posta, Peter Birrel
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All At Number 20 (86,87) ITV(Thames) Richard Ommanney
Woman takes in student lodgers
Maureen Lipman, Gabrielle Glaister, Lisa Jacobs, Carol Hawkins
Gary Waldhorn
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All Gas And Gaiters (67 was:70) BBC Edwin Apps & Pauline Devaney
General fun'n'games with bishops etc
Derek Nimmo, Robertson Hare, William Mervyn, Ernest Clark
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All In Good Faith (85-, was:86,87) ITV(Thames) John Kane
Country vicar changes his parish for an inner-city church
Richard Briers, Barbara Ferris.
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All Night Long (94) BBC Dick Fiddy & Mark Wallington
All night bakery in Soho
Keith Barron, MAureen Beattie, Dinah Sheridan, Angus Lennie, Jan Winters,
John Pythian, Jacqueline Reddin, Robert McKewley, Paul Grunert.
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All Our Saturdays (73) ITV(Yorkshire) ?writer
Woman runs textile business and amateur rugby league team
Diana Dors
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All Square (66) ITV(ATV) Michael Bentine?
Filthnik is the capital of Ozonia
Michael Bentine, Derek Guyler, Benny Lee, Leon Thau
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'Allo! 'Allo! (p82,84,85,86-,87,88-,89,,91,92ab) BBC
Jeremy Lloyd & David Croft; later Jeremy Lloyd & Mark Adams
Resistance, Gestapo, everybody, eat at Rene's cafe in occupied France
Gorden Kaye, Sam Kelly, Vicki Michelle, Carmen Silvera, Richard Marner,
Kirsten Cooke, Guy Siner, Richard Gibson, Kim Hartman, Kenneth Connor,
John D Collins, Nicholas Frankau, Rose Hill, Francesca Gonshaw,
Hilary Minster, John Louis Mansi, Arthur Bostrom, Jack Haig
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An Actor's Life For Me (91) BBC Paul Mayhew-Archer.
An aspiring actor goes for many auditions and few jobs (from Radio4)
John Gordon Sinclair, Victor Spinetti
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And Grandmother Makes Four (?when) ?channel ?writer
(exists?)(spinoff from next entry) Woman has a mother as well as 2 kids
Wendy Craig
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And Mother Makes Five (74ab,75,76) ITV(Thames) Richard Waring
spinoff from AMM3, she marries a man with a child, to make it 5
Wendy Craig, Robin Davies, David Parfitt, Valerie Lush, Richard Coleman,
Miriam Mann, Tony Britton, Charlotte Mitchell
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And Mother Makes Three (71ab-,72,73) ITV(Thames) Richard Waring
Woman has two kids, cat, goldfish
Wendy Craig, Robin Davies, David Parfitt, Valerie Lush, Richard Coleman,
Miriam Mann
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Andy Capp (88) ITV(Thames) Keith Waterhouse after Reg Smythe's cartoons
Hartlepool man: Dole, bookies, pub, snooker hall, telly
James Bolam, Paula Tilbrook
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Are You Being Served? (p72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,81,83,84?85) BBC1
film77(broadcast on tv 80) Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft
Lots of double meanings etc in a department store
Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Frank Thornton, Wendy Richard, Arthur Brough,
Nicholas Smith, Trevor Bannister, Harold Bennett, Arthur English
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Are You Being Served Again? was the US title of Grace And Favour
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As Good Cooks Go (70) BBC Johnny Warren, John Springer
<synopsis>
Tessie O'Shea
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As Time Goes By (91,92,93,94) BBC(Theatre of Comedy/DLTaffnerUKLtd)
Bob Larbey
Couple attempt to rekindle old flame
Judi Dench, Geoffrey Palmer, Moyra Fraser, Paul Chapman, Moira Brooker
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Astronauts (81) ITV (Witzend) Graeme Garden & Bill Oddie
Three astronauts and a dog + their boring routine lives...
Christopher Godwin, Carmen Du Sautoy, Barrie Rutter, Bruce Boa,
?Bill Oddie?
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Auf Wiedersehen Pet (83-,84,86) ITV(Central)
Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais, and others
Brickies go to work in Germany
Tim Healey, Gary Holton, Jimmy Nail, Pat Roach, Timothy Spall,
Kevin Whately
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B. And B. (68) BBC Michael Pertwee
<synopsis>
Bernard Braden, Barbara Kelly
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Bachelor Father (70,71) BBC Richard Waring
A single foster father
Ian Carmichael, Sonia Dresdel, Sonia Graham
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Ballyskillen Opera House (81) ITV Linda Thornber
Old fraud managed ramshackle Irish theatre [sitcom+weekly variety act]
Frank Carson, Anna Manahan
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Beyond The Groove doesn't fit my definition of sitcom
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Beggar My Neighbour (67,68) BBC Ken Hoare & Mike Sharland
2 "differently financed" couples are neighbours - the wives are sisters.
June Whitfield, Bill Pertwee, Reg Varney, Pat Coombs,
Peter Jones->Desmond Walter-Ellis
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Beryl's Lot (73,74,75,77) ITV(YTV) Kevin Laffan after Margaret Powell
74: Bill McIlwraith
Milkman's charlady wife determined to improve herself
Carmel McSharry, Mark Kingston->George Selway
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Best Of Enemies (68,69) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell & Harry Driver
Rival MPs
Tim Barrett, Robert coote, Derek Guyler
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Big Boy Now! (76) ITV(ATV) Ronnie Taylor
Mother's boy
Leslie Crowther, Fabia Drake, Ronald Lewis, Derek Farr
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Big Jim And The Figaro Club (p79,81) BBC Ted Walker
Building site supervisor vs. workers
Norman Rossington, Roland Curram, David John, Priscilla Morgan
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Billy Bunter (52..62) BBC ?writer(books by Frank Richards)
From the famous books
Gerald Campion, Kynaston Reeves
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Billy Liar (73,74) ITV(LWT) Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall
Fantasist works at undertakers
Jeff Rawle, George A. Cooper, Pamela Vezey
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Birds Of A Feather (89,90,91,92,93x,94) BBC(Alomo)
One series by Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran
At least one series (90) by Peter Tilbury
episodes by various writers
Convicts' wives
Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson, Lesley Joseph, Alun Lewis, Peter Polycarpou
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Birds On The Wing (71) BBC Peter Yeldham
Two lady con artists and their target: a young British tourist in Rome
Julia Lockwood, Anne Rogers, Richard Briers
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******Blackadder - the various series and specials are listed separately!
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Blackadder: The Cavalier Years (87) one-off special
Blackadder's Christmas Carol (x88) one-off christmas special
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Black-Adder II (86) BBC Richard Curtis & Ben Elton
Elizabethan
Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Tim McInnerny,
Miranda Richardson, Patsy Byrne, Tom Baker, Simon Jones
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Blackadder The Third (87) BBC Richard Curtis and Ben Elton
Regency
Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie, Helen Atkinson-Wood,
Stephen Fry, Gertan Klauber
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Blackadder Goes Forth (89) BBC Richard Curtis and Ben Elton
1st world war
Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tim McInnerny
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Bless Me Father (78,79-,81) ITV(LWT) Peter DeRosa
Cynical priest and young curate
Arthur Lowe, Daniel Abineri, Gabrielle Daye
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Bless This House (71,72,73,74?,75,76,77) ITV(Thames)
74ab and not 75 according to one contributor, but TVGH disagrees
various writers, including:
71,73: Vince Powell & Harry Driver film length version 78
72,75,77: Carla Lane 74: Dave Freeman
Aging father versus modern youth
Sid James, Diana Coupland, Sally Geeson, Robin Stewart
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Bloomers (79) BBC James Saunders
Resting actor works in florists
Richard Beckinsale (his last role)
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Blue Heaven (94) C4 Frank Skinner
Aspiring Brummie musical duo
Frank Skinner, Conleth Hill, Paula Wilcox, John Forgeham
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Bonjour La Classe (93) BBC(Talkback) Paul Smith & Terry Kyan
Idealistic inneffective new teacher at fee-paying school
Nigel Planer, Polly Adams, Timothy Bateson, Victoria Carling,
Robert Gillespie, David Troughton, Nicholas Woodson, Peter Woodthorpe,
Richard Vernon, Rebecca Callard, Bryan Dick, David Larkin, Daniel Newman,
Simeon Pearl, Camilla Power
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Bootle Saddles (84) BBC Ray Mansell & Paul Benn
'Wild West'-obsessed Brits take their holidays in Apache Wells, Lancashire
Kenneth Cope, Anne Carroll, Shirley Stelfox, Gordon Rollings, Joe Gladwin
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Bootsie And Snudge (60..63(103eps),74) ITV(Granada)
Barry Took & Marty Feldman
63: Peter Miller & James Kelly
74: David Climie & Ronnie Cass
?? Harry Driver, Jack Rosenthal, and Ray Alan
Employed at private club after leaving the army (cf.The Army Game)
74: Bootsie wins the pools, leading to a sort of role reversal
Alfie Bass, Bill Fraser, Clive Dunn, Robert Dorning
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Born And Bred (78,80) ITV(Thames) Douglas Livingstone
2 related S.London families, one respectable, the other not
Max Wall, Rose Hill, James Grout, Joan Sims, Pat Ashton, Derek James,
Christopher Driscoll, Gorden Kaye, Niall Padden, Trevor Peacock,
Gillian Raine, Kate Williams
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Both Ends Meet (72) ITV(LWT)
Brian Chaser, Len Downs, Mike Firman, Patrick Radcliffe
Mayhem in a sausage factory
Dora Bryan, Ivor Dean, David Howe, Meadows White, Deddie Davies,
Pat Ashton, Wendy Richard
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Bottle Boys (84,85) ITV(LWT) Vince Powell
Dairy
Robin Askwith, Brian Glover
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Bottom (91,92) BBC Rik Mayall & Adrian Edmondson
2 desperate morons share flat
Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson
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Bowler (73) ITV John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
Fenn St Gang spinoff: Bowler has a finger in every crooked pie, wants class
George Baker
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Boys From The Blackstuff (?) ?channel ?Alan Plater very nearly sitcom
but not quite (?)
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Brass (83,84):ITV(Granada) (90):C4 John Stevenson & Julian Roach
Dark satanic mills (yes I know Blake wasn't talking about cotton mills)
Timothy West, Caroline Blakiston, Barbara Ewing, Geoff Hinsliff ,
Shaun Scott, Emily Morgan
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Bread (86,87ab,88,89,90,91) BBC Carla Lane
Scouser family
Deborah Grant, Ronald Forfar, Jean Boht, Peter Howitt->Graham Bickley,
Victor McGuire, Nick Conway, Gilly Coman->Melanie Hall, Jonathon Morris,
Giles Watling, Rita Tushingham
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Brighton Belles (93) ITV adapted by Christopher Skala
from original Golden Girls scripts
Middle-aged (and older) women sharing house
Sheila Hancock, Wendy Craig, Sheila Gish, Jean Boht
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Brothers-In-Law (?when) ?channel ?Richard Gordon?
<synopsis>
Richard Briers
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Brush Strokes (86,87,88,89,90,91) BBC John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
Decorators
Karl Howman, Gary Waldhorn, Howard Lew Lewis, Jackie Lye,
Kim Thomson->Erica Hoffman, Elizabeth Counsell, Mike Walling
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Bud (63) ITV(ATV) Barry Laffen
Bud Flanagan seeks work after breakup of The Crazy Gang
Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jerry Desmonde, Jack Hylton, Charlie Naughton
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Budgie (71,72) ITV(Thames)
Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall, 2eps Douglas Livingstone
Small time crook
Adam Faith, Iain Cuthbertson, Georgina Hale, Lynn Dalby, June Lewis,
George Tovey
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Bulldog Breed (62) ITV(Granada) Jack Rosenthal, devised Derek Granger
Amiable young man provokes chaos
Donald Churchill, Amanda Barrie, Geoffrey Whitehead, Peter Butterworth,
Betty Huntley-Wright
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Bust (87) ITV(LWT) Philip Hinchcliffe & Simon Passmore
Bankrupt wheeler-dealer
Paul Nicholas, Phyllis Logan, Geraldine Alexander
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Butterflies (78,79x,80,83) BBC Carla Lane
NB: A check of the Times shows that the Guinness book of Classic TV
has the wrong dates for this programme.
Housewife angst: nice hubby, 2 sons, fancies other bloke but afraid
Wendy Craig, Geoffrey Palmer, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Andrew Hall,
Bruce Montague
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Can We Get On Now, Please? (80) ITV Dennis Woolf
Magistrate's court
Sheila Steafel, Hugh Paddick, Robert Dorning, Michael Barrington,
Charles Lamb, Valerie Phillips
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Carry On Laughing (72,75ab)
72: ?
75: ITV(ATV) various writers
Specially written halfhour CarryOns by various writers
Also there were 3 all-new christmas specials by Talbot Rothwell, in 69, 71, and 72(tho somebody said 69,72,73); and one by Sid Colin and Dan Freeman in 70.
Various permutations of the Carry On movies' team
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Casanova '73 (73) BBC Alan Simpson & Ray Galton.
Womanising PR man
Leslie Phillips, Jan Holden
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Chalk And Cheese (79) ITV(Thames) Alex Shearer
Cockneys live in gentrified street
Michael Crawford, Gillian Martell, Robin Hawdon, Julia Goodman,
Michael Gambon
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Chance In A Million (TVGH:85, but all say:84,86ab) C4(Thames) Andrew Norriss & Richard Fegen
Unlikely things happen to accident-prone man & his girlfriend
Simon Callow, Brenda Blethyn
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Charles Endell Esquire (79-) ITV Robert Banks Stewart
[some say comedy drama not sitcom] Budgie spinoff
Iain Cuthbertson
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Charley's Grants (70) BBC2 John Fortune, John Wells, NF Simpson
<synopsis>
Hattie Jacques, Willoughby Goddard
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Cheap At Half The Price (72) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell & Harry Driver
Antiques shop in Chelsea
Roy Kinnear, Doug Fisher, Marjie Lawrence
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Chef! (93x,94) BBC(APC/Crucial) Peter Tilbury, at least 1 ep(94) Geoff Deane
Flamboyant chef
Lenny Henry, Caroline Lee Johnson, Claire Skinner, Roger Griffiths,
Erkan Mustafa, (Sophie Thursfield, Ben Forster)
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Chelmsford 123 (88,90) C4(Hat Trick) Rory McGrath & Jimmy Mulville
Roman Britain
Rory McGrath, Jimmy Mulville, Phil Pope, Neil Pearson, Howard Lew Lewis
Erika Hoffmann.
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Chintz (81) ITV(Granada) Alex Adams, Dilys Laye, Peg Lynch
Cheshire middle classes
Michele Dotrice, Richard Easton, Dilys Laye, Christopher Benjamin
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Citizen James (60,61,62) BBC
60: Ray Galton & Alan Simpson
61,62: Sid Green & Dick Hills
Battler for lost causes
Sid James, Bill Kerr, Liz Fraser, Sydney Tafler
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Citizen Smith (77,78ab-,79,80x) BBC John Sullivan
Innocuous trotskyite
Robert Lindsay, Mike Grady, Peter Vaughan->Tony Steedman, Hilda Braid,
Stephen Greif, Tony Millan, George Sweeney, Cheryl Hall,
later series David Garfield, Susie Baker
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City Lights (78...?...90) BBC ?writer
Scots bank clerk attempts to become a writer
Gerard Kelly
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Clarence (88) BBC Bob Ferris(actually Ronnie Barker)
Myopic delivery man
Ronnie Barker, Josephine Tewson
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Class Act (94) ITV Michael Aitkens (billed as comedy drama)
ex-rich-bitch out of jail (for fraud) seeks presumed-dead husband's cash
Joanna Lumley, John Bowe, Nadine Garner, Richard Vernon, James Gaddas,
Neil McCaul
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Close To Home (89,90) ITV(LWT) Brian Cooke
Vet
Paul Nicholas, Angharad Rees
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Colin's Sandwich (88,89) BBC Paul Smith & Terry Kyan
BR complaints person tries to be a writer
Mel Smith, Louisa Rix, Mike Grady
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Colonel Trumper's Private War (61) ITV(Granada)
Bill Craig, Barry Took, Dick Vosburgh, Hugh Woodhouse
Summer '40: Trumper on dangerous counter-intelligence missions
Dennis Price, Warren Mitchell, William Gaunt, George Tovey
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Come Back Mrs Noah (p77,78) BBC Jeremy Lloyd & David Croft
Housewife & bureaucrats accidentally launched into space
Mollie Sugden, Ian Lavender, Donald Hewlett, Michael Knowles, Joe Black,
Gorden Kaye
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Coming Home (81) BBC ?writer
[?sitcom]<synopsis>
Roger Sloman, Philip Jackson, Linda Marchal, Muriel Maddocks
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Common As Muck (94) BBC William Ivory
Dustbinmen [not billed as sitcom]
Edward Woodward, Tim Healy, Neil Dudgeon, Michelle Holmes, Stephen Lord,
Roy Hudd, Paul Kember
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Comrade Dad (84) BBC Davidson/Vincent/Robinson(perm any two)
If England was a communist state...
George Cole
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Conjugal Rites (93,94) ITV Roger Hall
21 year itch (NB a *drama* of same title in 73)
Gwen Taylor, Michael Williams, Stephen Moyer, Cordelia Bugeja,
Alan MacNaughtan, voice of Warren Clarke
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Coppers End (71) ITV(ATV) David Cumming & Derek Collyer, created Ted Willis
Britain's laziest, most corrupt police station
Bill Owen, Richard Wattis, Josephine Tewson, George Moon, Royce Mills,
Kevin Brennan
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Cowboys (80ab) ITV Peter Learmouth
Incompetent builders
Colin Welland, Roy Kinnear, David Kelly
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Cuffy (83) ITV Francis Essex
Village tinker; spinoff from Shillingbury Tales
Bernard Cribbins, Jack Douglas
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Curry & Chips (69) ITV(LWT) Johnny Speight
Asian immigrant gets "civilised" by working class Brits
Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes, Fanny Carby, Geoffrey Hughes, Kenny Lynch,
Norman Rossington
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Dad's Army (68,69abc,70x,x71,72,73,74,75x,x76,77,film 76) BBC
Jimmy Perry & David Croft
Home Guard
Arthur Lowe, John LeMesurier, Clive Dunn, Ian Lavender, James Beck(to 73),
Arnold Ridley, John Laurie, Bill Pertwee, Frank Williams, Edward Sinclair,
Talfryn Thomas
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Dead Ernest (82) ITV(Central) Julian Roach & John Stevenson
Teacher dies and goes to heaven
Andrew Sachs, Ken Jones, Harry Fowler
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Dear John (86,87x,3rd series?) BBC John Sullivan
Therapy/encounter group for singles
Ralph Bates, Belinda Lang, Peter Blake
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Dear Ladies (83,ny84) BBC Gyles Brandreth
Dame Hilda Bracket & Dr Evadne hinge "at home" in Stackton Tressel
George Logan, Patrick Fyffe (female impersonators)
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Dear Mother ... Love Albert (69,70,71) ITV(Yorkshire)
Derrick Goodwin & Rodney Bewes
Yorkshire boy in seedy London writes euphemistic letters home
(see also Albert, the '72 continuation)
Rodney Bewes, Christine Hargreaves, Garfield Morgan, Sheila White
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Desmond's (89,90,91-,92,93,94) C4 Trix Worrell 93,94:various writers
Hairdressers
Norman Beaton, Carmen Munroe, Ram John Holder, Gyearbour Asante,
Geff Francis, Robbie Gee, Valerie Murray, Kim Walker, Justin Pickett,
Chris Toomey(94only?), Dean Gatiss(94only?)
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Divided We Stand (87) BBC Myra Taylor
Unhappily married couple, living in Birmingham
Anna Keaveney, Shaun Curry
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Doctor At Large (71) ITV(LWT) writers various, include:
Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Bernard McKenna,
Geoff Rowley, Andy Baker, Oliver Fry, Jonathan Lynn, David A Yallop
Continuation of Doctor In The House (after graduation)
Barry Evans(71), Geoffrey Davies, George Layton, Richard O'Sullivan,
Ernest Clark
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Doctor At Sea (74) ITV(LWT) writers include:
Layton, Lynn, McKenna, Richard Laing, Gail Renard
2 ships doctors
Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davies, Ernest Clark, John Grieve, Bob Todd
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Doctor At The Top (91) BBC1 George Layton & Bill Oddie
They're consultants now (I think)
Geoffrey Davies, George Layton, Robin Nedwell, Jill Benedict
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Doctor In Charge (72,73) ITV(LWT) writers include:
1972 - Chapman, McKenna, Garden, Oddie, Lynn, George Layton,
1973 - Layton, Lynn, McKenna, Phil Redmond, Gail Renard, David Sherlock,
David Askey
further continuation of DoctorInTheHouse/DoctorAtLarge
Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davies, George Layton, Richard O'Sullivan,
Ernest Clark, Helen Fraser
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Doctor In The House (69,70) ITV(LWT), writers various, include:
Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Barry Cryer
Medical students hijinks
Barry Evans, George Layton, ?Richard O'Sullivan?only1season?,
Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davies, Ernest Clark, Simon Cuff,
Martin Shaw (69), Jonathan Lynn (70)
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Doctor On The Go (75,77) ITV(LWT) writers include:
1975 - Layton, Lynn, McKenna, Laing, Renard, Steve Thorn, Paul Wolfson
1977 - Yallop, Thorn, Wolfson, McKenna, Chapman, Renard, Selwyn Roberts,
Douglas Adams, Rob Buckman, Chris Beetles, Brenda Crankmen.
^^pseudonym^^
More medical mishaps.
Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davis, Ernest Clark, Andrew Know
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Doctor Down Under was an Australian production
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Doctors And Nurses (79-) ITV Rob Buckman & Chris Beetles
Hospital send-up, adult patients, kid staff
<cast>
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Doctor's Daughters (81) ITV(ATV) Richard Gordon & Ralph Thomas
3 venerable GPs upset when practice taken over by young women
Patrick Newell, Jack Watling, Bill Fraser, Richard Murdoch, Lesley Duff,
Victoria Burgoyne
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Dogfood Dan And The Caernarvon Cowboy (p82) ITV (88) BBC David Nobbs
? Caemarthen ? (and spelling of either name?)
2 truckers take dogfood between Wales & NE England, meeting halfway.
Peter Blake (if he's the Medallion Man in Dear John) and a lugubrious
looking chap whose name escapes me(ie the contributor of this entry)
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Don't Drink The Water (74,75) ITV(LWT) Ronald Wolfe & Ronald Chesney
Blakey from 'On the Buses' retires to Spain
Stephen Lewis, Pat Coombes
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Don't Forget To Write! (77,78,79) BBC Charles Wood
Playwright with writer's block [?sitcom or (1vote)comedy drama?]
George Cole, Gwen Watford, Francis Matthews
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Don't Rock The Boat (82,83) ITV(Thames) John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
Boat owner with 2 grown sons remarries
Nigel Davenport, Sheila White, David Janson, John Price
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Don't Tell Father (92) BBC Roy Clarke
Insufferable actor miffed when daughter falls for driving instructor
Tony Britton, Caroline Quentin, Susan Hampshire
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Don't Wait Up (83,84,85-,87,88,90) BBC George Layton
Father & son doctors share flat
Nigel Havers, Tony Britton
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Dora (72ab) ITV(LWT) ?writer
<synopsis>
Dora Bryan, Ivor Dean
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Double First (88) BBC John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
Mysteriously fallen ex-professor lives with Oxford uni acquaintances
Michael Williams, Holly Aird, Ann Bell, Jennifer Hilary
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Down The 'Gate (75) ITV Maurice Sellar & Roy Tuvey
Billingsgate fish market
Reg Varney, Dilys Laye, Tony Melody
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Downwardly Mobile (94) ITV Alistair Beaton & Barry Pilton
Broke ex-stockbroker & wife move in with brother & wife
Frances De La Tour, Philip Jackson, Josie Lawrence, Stephen Tompkinson
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Dream Stuffing (approx84) C4 ?writers
Inner city?
2 girls share flat: punk & richkid. "Eighties Liver Birds"
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Drop The Dead Donkey (90,91,93,94) C4(Hat Trick) Andy Hamilton & Guy Jenkin
TV newsroom
Haydn Gwynne(not 93), Jeff Rawle, David Swift, Neil Pearson,
Ingrid Lacey(93), Victoria Wicks, Susannah Doyle(not91), Robert Duncan,
Stephen Tompkinson
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Duty Free (84ab,86) ITV(Yorkshire) Eric Chappell and Jean Warr
2 couples on holiday, one of each pair fancy each other.
Keith Barron, Joanna Van Gyseghem, Neil Stacy, Gwen Taylor,
Carlos Douglas
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Educating Archie (58..59) ITV(AR) ?Marty Feldman did the radio version
Ventriloquism
Peter Brough was in the radio version at least
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El CID has been adjudged a comedy-drama, though there WAS a separate plot
each week.....hmmmmm
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Eric Sykes has a listing in Television's Greatest Hits, but most of us
remember his various series being titled just Sykes, so that's where
I've listed it
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Ever Decreasing Circles (84,...,87,ny90) BBC John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
Compulsive organiser
Richard Briers, Peter Egan, Penelope Wilton
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Every Silver Lining (93) BBC Simon Block
Jewish couple run East End cafe
Frances de la Tour, Andrew Sachs, Oscar Quitak, David Yip, Sarah Malin,
Danny Swanson
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Executive Stress (86,87) ITV(Thames) George Layton
Wife gets job at same publishing firm as husband, has to pretend not
Penelope Keith, Geoffrey Palmer(1st ser), Peter Bowles(2nd ser),
Paul Boyle, Harry Ditson, Elizabeth Counsell
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Fairly Secret Army (?84,86) C4 David Nobbs
Attempt to start private army in England home counties; possibly sort-of
a spin-off from The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin as it has G Palmer.
> Concerning the synopsis, the point seems to have been that the retired
> Major (Harry Truscot) forms his "army" to combat communist revolutionary
> guerillas, which the regular military doesn't believe exist. By the
> second series, much to everyone's surprise, he has encountered them.
Geoffrey Palmer, Michael Robbins, Liz Fraser
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Fancy Wanders (80) ITV(LWT) Sid Green
Tramp imagines self and friend into fantastic situations
Dave King, Joe Marcell
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Farrington Of The F.O. (86?87) ITV(YTV) Dick Sharples
British Consul General (female) in banana republic
Angela Thorne, Tony Haygarth, John Quayle, Joan Sims
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Father Charlie (82) ITV(Central) Vince Powell
Cockney RC priest becomes chaplain to a convent.
Lionel Jeffries, Anna Quayle
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Father Dear Father (68,69,70,71ab,72,73) ITV(Thames)
Brian Cooke & Johnnie Mortimer, later episodes by other writers
Man has 2 daughters
Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson, Joyce Carey,
Ursula Howells
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Father Matthew's Daughter (87) BBC ?writer
<synopsis>
<cast>
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Father's Day (83,84) C4 Peter Spence
Televisation of the Hunter Davies column from Punch
John Alderton, Dominique Barnes,
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Fawlty Towers (75,79) BBC John Cleese & Connie Booth
Nutter runs small hotel
John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Brian Hall(79)
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Feet First (79) ITV John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
[?sitcom]Footballer hits stardom but is out of his depth
Joe Melia, ? McGann
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Ffizz (87,89) ITV(Thames)
Richard Fegen and Andrew Norriss
Wine importing company on verge of bankruptcy
Richard Griffiths, Benjamin Whitrow, Felicity Montagu
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Fiddlers Three (91) ITV Eric Chappell
Office comedy, remake of The Squirrels using the original scripts
Peter Davison, Paula Wilcox, Charles Kay, Cindy Day, Peter Blake,
Tyler Butterworth
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Filthy, Rich And Catflap (87) BBC Ben Elton +Rik Mayall
Actor, minder, and agent
Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planer
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Fire Crackers (64) ITV(ATV) Fred Robinson
Forgotten fire brigade in forgotten village
Alfred Marks, Joe Baker, Cardew Robinson
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First Of The Summer Wine (88,89) BBC Roy Clarke
What the guys from Last Of The Summer Wine did in their youth
David Fenwick, Paul Wyett, Paul McLain, Peter Sallis, Maggie Ollerenshaw,
Richard Lumsden, Helen Patrick
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For The Love Of Ada (70ab,71) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell & Harry Driver
Two geriatrics fall in love and marry.
Irene Handl, Wilfred Pickles, Barbara Mitchell, Jack Smethurst
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Foreign Affairs (64) ITV(Granada) Barry Took
Bootsie & Snudge enter the diplomatic service
Alfie Bass, Bill Fraser, Nicholas Phipps
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Foreign Bodies (87ab,89) BBC ?writer
N Irish med student to marry S Ireland nurse
<cast>
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Foxy Lady (82,84) ITV(Granada) Geoffrey Lancashire
Woman editor of 50s provincial newspaper
Diane Keen, Patrick Troughton, Geoffrey Burridge, Sean Scanlan
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Freddie And Max (90) ITV(Thames) Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais
Ageing US actress in swank hotel, young woman biography ghostwriter
Anne Bancroft, Charlotte Coleman, Richard Pearson, Ian Congden-Lee,
Flaminia Cinque
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French Fields (89,90,91) ITV(Thames) John Chapman & Ian Davidson
French continuation of next entry
Anton Rodgers, Julia MacKenzie, Pamela Salem, Liz Crowther,
Robin Kermode
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Fresh Fields (83,84,85,86) ITV(Thames) John Chapman
Accountant & wife after kids have left home
Anton Rodgers, Julia MacKenzie, Ann Beach, Fanny Rowe
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Full House (85,?,86) ITV(Thames) Johnnie Mortimer
Known in US as "Mixed Doubles"
Two couples decide to share in the ownership of a house.
Christopher Strauli, Brian Capron, Sabina Franklyn, Natalie Forbes
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Full Stretch (93) ITV Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais [?just light drama?]
Ex-footballer in luxury limo business
Kevin McNally, Reece Dinsdale, Sue Johnston, Wendy Morgan, Rowena King,
(David Howey, Clarence Smith), James Aubrey, (William Armstrong)
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Further Up Pompeii (75,91)
75:BBC Talbot Rothwell, Sid Collin
91:ITV(LWT) Brian Leveson, Paul Minett
2 one-off specials: continuation of Up Pompeii
Frankie Howerd
#end of part A-F
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2point4 Children (91,92,93,94) BBC Andrew Marshall
Average family encounter bizarre situations
Belinda Lang, Gary Olsen, Julia Hills, John Pickard,
Claire Woodgate(91,92)->Clare Buckfield(93->)
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A Bit Of A Do (89,91? was:91ab) ITV(Yorkshire) David Nobbs
Group of people go through complex series of relationships
David Jason, Nicola Pagett, Gwen Taylor, Michael Jayston, Tim Wylton,
Stephanie Cole, David Thewlis, Sara-Jane Holm, Wayne Foskett,
Nigel Hastings, Karen Drury, Malcolm Hebden, Tracy Brabin
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A Class By Himself (72) ITV(HTV) ?writer
Stately home in Somerset
John Le Mesurier, Peter Butterworth
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A Fine Romance (81,82,83,84) ITV(LWT) Bob Larbey
Prickly relationship
Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Susan Penhaligon, Geoffrey Rose(81),
Richard Warwick
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A Little Big Business (63,64) ITV(Granada) Paul Jackman, Jack Pullman
The furniture business
David Kossoff, Francis Matthews, David Conville, Joyce Marlowe,
Martin Miller, Billy Russell
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A Present For Dickie (69-) ITV Jimmy Grafton & Johnny Hayward
Mother-in-law syndrome
Dickie Henderson, Fabia Drake, June Laverick, Billy Burden, Jerry Ram,
Dennis Ramsden
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A Roof Over My Head (77) BBC ?writer
[?sitcom]<synopsis>
Brian Rix, Lynda Baron, Francis Matthews
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A Sharp Intake Of Breath (78,79,80,81) ITV(ATV) Ronnie Taylor
David Jason as the little man battling against authority
David Jason, Jacqueline Clarke, Richard Wilson, Alun Armstrong
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A Small Problem (87) BBC ?writer
Heightist apartheid
Michael Ryan
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A Soft Touch (78) ITV ?writer
<synopsis>
John Flanagan, Maureen Lipman
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A Touch Of Spice (89) BBC ?writer
2 young women start a catering company
<cast>
#
A Very Peculiar Practice (86,88) BBC Andrew Davies [?sitcom?comdram?]
special: A Very Polish Practice - Davison, Troughton, Kanska
University docs: nice guy, nasty tory, old alcy, manipulative feminist
Peter Davison, David Troughton, Graham Crowden, Barbara Flynn,
Amanada Hillwood(86+1ep), Joanna Kanska(88)
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A.J.Wentworth BA (82) ITV(Thames) Basil Boothroyd from stories by H F Ellis
School maths master and the dreaded third form
Arthur Lowe (his last television role), Harry Andrews, Marion Mathie
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A.P.Herbert's Misleading Cases (71) BBC1 ?writer [?sitcom]
<synopsis>
Alastair Sim, Roy Dotrice, Avice Landon, Thorley Walters
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Absolutely Fabulous (92,94) BBC Jennifer Saunders
Magazine fashion exec (ie pretentious workshy hedonist 'society' type)
Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Jane Horrocks, Julia Sawalha,
June Whitfield, Kathy Burke
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After Henry (87,88/89?) ITV(Thames) Simon Brett {straight copy of R4 version}
Widow has daughter upstairs and mother downstairs
Prunella Scales, Joan Sanderson, Janine Wood, Jonathan Newth
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Agony (79,80,81) ITV(LWT) Len Richmond & Anna Raeburn (79),
Stan Hey and Andrew Nickolds (80,81)
About an agony-aunt
Maureen Lipman, Simon Williams, Maria Charles
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Ain't Misbehavin' (94) BBC Roy Clarke
Eternal quadrangle
Peter Davison, Nicola Pagett, Lesley Manville, John Duttine,
Polly Hemingway
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Albert! (72) ITV(Yorkshire) Rodney Bewes & Derrick Goodwin
Continuation of Dear Mother . . . Love Albert (which see)
Rodney Bewes, Cheryl Hall, Garfield Morgan
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Albert And Victoria (70,71) ITV(Yorkshire) Reuben Ship
Legacy has strings attached
Frances Bennett, Alfred Marks, Gay Hamilton, Petra Markham, John Alkin
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Alcock And Gander (72) ITV(Thames) Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke
Marriage-bureau-cum-Tom O'Thimble Lucky Pixie shop
Beryl Reid, Richard O'Sullivan, John Cater
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Alexander The Greatest (71,72) ITV(ATV) Bernard Kops
Inducements keep 16yr old rebel at home: domestic mayhem
Sydney Tafler, Libby Morris, Garry Warren, Adrienne Posta, Peter Birrel
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All At Number 20 (86,87) ITV(Thames) Richard Ommanney
Woman takes in student lodgers
Maureen Lipman, Gabrielle Glaister, Lisa Jacobs, Carol Hawkins
Gary Waldhorn
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All Gas And Gaiters (67 was:70) BBC Edwin Apps & Pauline Devaney
General fun'n'games with bishops etc
Derek Nimmo, Robertson Hare, William Mervyn, Ernest Clark
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All In Good Faith (85-, was:86,87) ITV(Thames) John Kane
Country vicar changes his parish for an inner-city church
Richard Briers, Barbara Ferris.
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All Night Long (94) BBC Dick Fiddy & Mark Wallington
All night bakery in Soho
Keith Barron, MAureen Beattie, Dinah Sheridan, Angus Lennie, Jan Winters,
John Pythian, Jacqueline Reddin, Robert McKewley, Paul Grunert.
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All Our Saturdays (73) ITV(Yorkshire) ?writer
Woman runs textile business and amateur rugby league team
Diana Dors
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All Square (66) ITV(ATV) Michael Bentine?
Filthnik is the capital of Ozonia
Michael Bentine, Derek Guyler, Benny Lee, Leon Thau
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'Allo! 'Allo! (p82,84,85,86-,87,88-,89,,91,92ab) BBC
Jeremy Lloyd & David Croft; later Jeremy Lloyd & Mark Adams
Resistance, Gestapo, everybody, eat at Rene's cafe in occupied France
Gorden Kaye, Sam Kelly, Vicki Michelle, Carmen Silvera, Richard Marner,
Kirsten Cooke, Guy Siner, Richard Gibson, Kim Hartman, Kenneth Connor,
John D Collins, Nicholas Frankau, Rose Hill, Francesca Gonshaw,
Hilary Minster, John Louis Mansi, Arthur Bostrom, Jack Haig
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An Actor's Life For Me (91) BBC Paul Mayhew-Archer.
An aspiring actor goes for many auditions and few jobs (from Radio4)
John Gordon Sinclair, Victor Spinetti
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And Grandmother Makes Four (?when) ?channel ?writer
(exists?)(spinoff from next entry) Woman has a mother as well as 2 kids
Wendy Craig
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And Mother Makes Five (74ab,75,76) ITV(Thames) Richard Waring
spinoff from AMM3, she marries a man with a child, to make it 5
Wendy Craig, Robin Davies, David Parfitt, Valerie Lush, Richard Coleman,
Miriam Mann, Tony Britton, Charlotte Mitchell
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And Mother Makes Three (71ab-,72,73) ITV(Thames) Richard Waring
Woman has two kids, cat, goldfish
Wendy Craig, Robin Davies, David Parfitt, Valerie Lush, Richard Coleman,
Miriam Mann
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Andy Capp (88) ITV(Thames) Keith Waterhouse after Reg Smythe's cartoons
Hartlepool man: Dole, bookies, pub, snooker hall, telly
James Bolam, Paula Tilbrook
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Are You Being Served? (p72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,81,83,84?85) BBC1
film77(broadcast on tv 80) Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft
Lots of double meanings etc in a department store
Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Frank Thornton, Wendy Richard, Arthur Brough,
Nicholas Smith, Trevor Bannister, Harold Bennett, Arthur English
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Are You Being Served Again? was the US title of Grace And Favour
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As Good Cooks Go (70) BBC Johnny Warren, John Springer
<synopsis>
Tessie O'Shea
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As Time Goes By (91,92,93,94) BBC(Theatre of Comedy/DLTaffnerUKLtd)
Bob Larbey
Couple attempt to rekindle old flame
Judi Dench, Geoffrey Palmer, Moyra Fraser, Paul Chapman, Moira Brooker
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Astronauts (81) ITV (Witzend) Graeme Garden & Bill Oddie
Three astronauts and a dog + their boring routine lives...
Christopher Godwin, Carmen Du Sautoy, Barrie Rutter, Bruce Boa,
?Bill Oddie?
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Auf Wiedersehen Pet (83-,84,86) ITV(Central)
Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais, and others
Brickies go to work in Germany
Tim Healey, Gary Holton, Jimmy Nail, Pat Roach, Timothy Spall,
Kevin Whately
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B. And B. (68) BBC Michael Pertwee
<synopsis>
Bernard Braden, Barbara Kelly
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Bachelor Father (70,71) BBC Richard Waring
A single foster father
Ian Carmichael, Sonia Dresdel, Sonia Graham
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Ballyskillen Opera House (81) ITV Linda Thornber
Old fraud managed ramshackle Irish theatre [sitcom+weekly variety act]
Frank Carson, Anna Manahan
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Beyond The Groove doesn't fit my definition of sitcom
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Beggar My Neighbour (67,68) BBC Ken Hoare & Mike Sharland
2 "differently financed" couples are neighbours - the wives are sisters.
June Whitfield, Bill Pertwee, Reg Varney, Pat Coombs,
Peter Jones->Desmond Walter-Ellis
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Beryl's Lot (73,74,75,77) ITV(YTV) Kevin Laffan after Margaret Powell
74: Bill McIlwraith
Milkman's charlady wife determined to improve herself
Carmel McSharry, Mark Kingston->George Selway
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Best Of Enemies (68,69) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell & Harry Driver
Rival MPs
Tim Barrett, Robert coote, Derek Guyler
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Big Boy Now! (76) ITV(ATV) Ronnie Taylor
Mother's boy
Leslie Crowther, Fabia Drake, Ronald Lewis, Derek Farr
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Big Jim And The Figaro Club (p79,81) BBC Ted Walker
Building site supervisor vs. workers
Norman Rossington, Roland Curram, David John, Priscilla Morgan
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Billy Bunter (52..62) BBC ?writer(books by Frank Richards)
From the famous books
Gerald Campion, Kynaston Reeves
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Billy Liar (73,74) ITV(LWT) Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall
Fantasist works at undertakers
Jeff Rawle, George A. Cooper, Pamela Vezey
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Birds Of A Feather (89,90,91,92,93x,94) BBC(Alomo)
One series by Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran
At least one series (90) by Peter Tilbury
episodes by various writers
Convicts' wives
Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson, Lesley Joseph, Alun Lewis, Peter Polycarpou
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Birds On The Wing (71) BBC Peter Yeldham
Two lady con artists and their target: a young British tourist in Rome
Julia Lockwood, Anne Rogers, Richard Briers
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******Blackadder - the various series and specials are listed separately!
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Blackadder: The Cavalier Years (87) one-off special
Blackadder's Christmas Carol (x88) one-off christmas special
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Black-Adder II (86) BBC Richard Curtis & Ben Elton
Elizabethan
Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Tim McInnerny,
Miranda Richardson, Patsy Byrne, Tom Baker, Simon Jones
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Blackadder The Third (87) BBC Richard Curtis and Ben Elton
Regency
Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie, Helen Atkinson-Wood,
Stephen Fry, Gertan Klauber
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Blackadder Goes Forth (89) BBC Richard Curtis and Ben Elton
1st world war
Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tim McInnerny
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Bless Me Father (78,79-,81) ITV(LWT) Peter DeRosa
Cynical priest and young curate
Arthur Lowe, Daniel Abineri, Gabrielle Daye
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Bless This House (71,72,73,74?,75,76,77) ITV(Thames)
74ab and not 75 according to one contributor, but TVGH disagrees
various writers, including:
71,73: Vince Powell & Harry Driver film length version 78
72,75,77: Carla Lane 74: Dave Freeman
Aging father versus modern youth
Sid James, Diana Coupland, Sally Geeson, Robin Stewart
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Bloomers (79) BBC James Saunders
Resting actor works in florists
Richard Beckinsale (his last role)
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Blue Heaven (94) C4 Frank Skinner
Aspiring Brummie musical duo
Frank Skinner, Conleth Hill, Paula Wilcox, John Forgeham
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Bonjour La Classe (93) BBC(Talkback) Paul Smith & Terry Kyan
Idealistic inneffective new teacher at fee-paying school
Nigel Planer, Polly Adams, Timothy Bateson, Victoria Carling,
Robert Gillespie, David Troughton, Nicholas Woodson, Peter Woodthorpe,
Richard Vernon, Rebecca Callard, Bryan Dick, David Larkin, Daniel Newman,
Simeon Pearl, Camilla Power
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Bootle Saddles (84) BBC Ray Mansell & Paul Benn
'Wild West'-obsessed Brits take their holidays in Apache Wells, Lancashire
Kenneth Cope, Anne Carroll, Shirley Stelfox, Gordon Rollings, Joe Gladwin
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Bootsie And Snudge (60..63(103eps),74) ITV(Granada)
Barry Took & Marty Feldman
63: Peter Miller & James Kelly
74: David Climie & Ronnie Cass
?? Harry Driver, Jack Rosenthal, and Ray Alan
Employed at private club after leaving the army (cf.The Army Game)
74: Bootsie wins the pools, leading to a sort of role reversal
Alfie Bass, Bill Fraser, Clive Dunn, Robert Dorning
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Born And Bred (78,80) ITV(Thames) Douglas Livingstone
2 related S.London families, one respectable, the other not
Max Wall, Rose Hill, James Grout, Joan Sims, Pat Ashton, Derek James,
Christopher Driscoll, Gorden Kaye, Niall Padden, Trevor Peacock,
Gillian Raine, Kate Williams
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Both Ends Meet (72) ITV(LWT)
Brian Chaser, Len Downs, Mike Firman, Patrick Radcliffe
Mayhem in a sausage factory
Dora Bryan, Ivor Dean, David Howe, Meadows White, Deddie Davies,
Pat Ashton, Wendy Richard
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Bottle Boys (84,85) ITV(LWT) Vince Powell
Dairy
Robin Askwith, Brian Glover
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Bottom (91,92) BBC Rik Mayall & Adrian Edmondson
2 desperate morons share flat
Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson
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Bowler (73) ITV John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
Fenn St Gang spinoff: Bowler has a finger in every crooked pie, wants class
George Baker
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Boys From The Blackstuff (?) ?channel ?Alan Plater very nearly sitcom
but not quite (?)
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Brass (83,84):ITV(Granada) (90):C4 John Stevenson & Julian Roach
Dark satanic mills (yes I know Blake wasn't talking about cotton mills)
Timothy West, Caroline Blakiston, Barbara Ewing, Geoff Hinsliff ,
Shaun Scott, Emily Morgan
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Bread (86,87ab,88,89,90,91) BBC Carla Lane
Scouser family
Deborah Grant, Ronald Forfar, Jean Boht, Peter Howitt->Graham Bickley,
Victor McGuire, Nick Conway, Gilly Coman->Melanie Hall, Jonathon Morris,
Giles Watling, Rita Tushingham
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Brighton Belles (93) ITV adapted by Christopher Skala
from original Golden Girls scripts
Middle-aged (and older) women sharing house
Sheila Hancock, Wendy Craig, Sheila Gish, Jean Boht
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Brothers-In-Law (?when) ?channel ?Richard Gordon?
<synopsis>
Richard Briers
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Brush Strokes (86,87,88,89,90,91) BBC John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
Decorators
Karl Howman, Gary Waldhorn, Howard Lew Lewis, Jackie Lye,
Kim Thomson->Erica Hoffman, Elizabeth Counsell, Mike Walling
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Bud (63) ITV(ATV) Barry Laffen
Bud Flanagan seeks work after breakup of The Crazy Gang
Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jerry Desmonde, Jack Hylton, Charlie Naughton
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Budgie (71,72) ITV(Thames)
Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall, 2eps Douglas Livingstone
Small time crook
Adam Faith, Iain Cuthbertson, Georgina Hale, Lynn Dalby, June Lewis,
George Tovey
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Bulldog Breed (62) ITV(Granada) Jack Rosenthal, devised Derek Granger
Amiable young man provokes chaos
Donald Churchill, Amanda Barrie, Geoffrey Whitehead, Peter Butterworth,
Betty Huntley-Wright
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Bust (87) ITV(LWT) Philip Hinchcliffe & Simon Passmore
Bankrupt wheeler-dealer
Paul Nicholas, Phyllis Logan, Geraldine Alexander
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Butterflies (78,79x,80,83) BBC Carla Lane
NB: A check of the Times shows that the Guinness book of Classic TV
has the wrong dates for this programme.
Housewife angst: nice hubby, 2 sons, fancies other bloke but afraid
Wendy Craig, Geoffrey Palmer, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Andrew Hall,
Bruce Montague
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Can We Get On Now, Please? (80) ITV Dennis Woolf
Magistrate's court
Sheila Steafel, Hugh Paddick, Robert Dorning, Michael Barrington,
Charles Lamb, Valerie Phillips
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Carry On Laughing (72,75ab)
72: ?
75: ITV(ATV) various writers
Specially written halfhour CarryOns by various writers
Also there were 3 all-new christmas specials by Talbot Rothwell, in 69, 71, and 72(tho somebody said 69,72,73); and one by Sid Colin and Dan Freeman in 70.
Various permutations of the Carry On movies' team
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Casanova '73 (73) BBC Alan Simpson & Ray Galton.
Womanising PR man
Leslie Phillips, Jan Holden
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Chalk And Cheese (79) ITV(Thames) Alex Shearer
Cockneys live in gentrified street
Michael Crawford, Gillian Martell, Robin Hawdon, Julia Goodman,
Michael Gambon
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Chance In A Million (TVGH:85, but all say:84,86ab) C4(Thames) Andrew Norriss & Richard Fegen
Unlikely things happen to accident-prone man & his girlfriend
Simon Callow, Brenda Blethyn
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Charles Endell Esquire (79-) ITV Robert Banks Stewart
[some say comedy drama not sitcom] Budgie spinoff
Iain Cuthbertson
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Charley's Grants (70) BBC2 John Fortune, John Wells, NF Simpson
<synopsis>
Hattie Jacques, Willoughby Goddard
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Cheap At Half The Price (72) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell & Harry Driver
Antiques shop in Chelsea
Roy Kinnear, Doug Fisher, Marjie Lawrence
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Chef! (93x,94) BBC(APC/Crucial) Peter Tilbury, at least 1 ep(94) Geoff Deane
Flamboyant chef
Lenny Henry, Caroline Lee Johnson, Claire Skinner, Roger Griffiths,
Erkan Mustafa, (Sophie Thursfield, Ben Forster)
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Chelmsford 123 (88,90) C4(Hat Trick) Rory McGrath & Jimmy Mulville
Roman Britain
Rory McGrath, Jimmy Mulville, Phil Pope, Neil Pearson, Howard Lew Lewis
Erika Hoffmann.
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Chintz (81) ITV(Granada) Alex Adams, Dilys Laye, Peg Lynch
Cheshire middle classes
Michele Dotrice, Richard Easton, Dilys Laye, Christopher Benjamin
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Citizen James (60,61,62) BBC
60: Ray Galton & Alan Simpson
61,62: Sid Green & Dick Hills
Battler for lost causes
Sid James, Bill Kerr, Liz Fraser, Sydney Tafler
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Citizen Smith (77,78ab-,79,80x) BBC John Sullivan
Innocuous trotskyite
Robert Lindsay, Mike Grady, Peter Vaughan->Tony Steedman, Hilda Braid,
Stephen Greif, Tony Millan, George Sweeney, Cheryl Hall,
later series David Garfield, Susie Baker
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City Lights (78...?...90) BBC ?writer
Scots bank clerk attempts to become a writer
Gerard Kelly
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Clarence (88) BBC Bob Ferris(actually Ronnie Barker)
Myopic delivery man
Ronnie Barker, Josephine Tewson
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Class Act (94) ITV Michael Aitkens (billed as comedy drama)
ex-rich-bitch out of jail (for fraud) seeks presumed-dead husband's cash
Joanna Lumley, John Bowe, Nadine Garner, Richard Vernon, James Gaddas,
Neil McCaul
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Close To Home (89,90) ITV(LWT) Brian Cooke
Vet
Paul Nicholas, Angharad Rees
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Colin's Sandwich (88,89) BBC Paul Smith & Terry Kyan
BR complaints person tries to be a writer
Mel Smith, Louisa Rix, Mike Grady
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Colonel Trumper's Private War (61) ITV(Granada)
Bill Craig, Barry Took, Dick Vosburgh, Hugh Woodhouse
Summer '40: Trumper on dangerous counter-intelligence missions
Dennis Price, Warren Mitchell, William Gaunt, George Tovey
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Come Back Mrs Noah (p77,78) BBC Jeremy Lloyd & David Croft
Housewife & bureaucrats accidentally launched into space
Mollie Sugden, Ian Lavender, Donald Hewlett, Michael Knowles, Joe Black,
Gorden Kaye
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Coming Home (81) BBC ?writer
[?sitcom]<synopsis>
Roger Sloman, Philip Jackson, Linda Marchal, Muriel Maddocks
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Common As Muck (94) BBC William Ivory
Dustbinmen [not billed as sitcom]
Edward Woodward, Tim Healy, Neil Dudgeon, Michelle Holmes, Stephen Lord,
Roy Hudd, Paul Kember
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Comrade Dad (84) BBC Davidson/Vincent/Robinson(perm any two)
If England was a communist state...
George Cole
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Conjugal Rites (93,94) ITV Roger Hall
21 year itch (NB a *drama* of same title in 73)
Gwen Taylor, Michael Williams, Stephen Moyer, Cordelia Bugeja,
Alan MacNaughtan, voice of Warren Clarke
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Coppers End (71) ITV(ATV) David Cumming & Derek Collyer, created Ted Willis
Britain's laziest, most corrupt police station
Bill Owen, Richard Wattis, Josephine Tewson, George Moon, Royce Mills,
Kevin Brennan
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Cowboys (80ab) ITV Peter Learmouth
Incompetent builders
Colin Welland, Roy Kinnear, David Kelly
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Cuffy (83) ITV Francis Essex
Village tinker; spinoff from Shillingbury Tales
Bernard Cribbins, Jack Douglas
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Curry & Chips (69) ITV(LWT) Johnny Speight
Asian immigrant gets "civilised" by working class Brits
Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes, Fanny Carby, Geoffrey Hughes, Kenny Lynch,
Norman Rossington
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Dad's Army (68,69abc,70x,x71,72,73,74,75x,x76,77,film 76) BBC
Jimmy Perry & David Croft
Home Guard
Arthur Lowe, John LeMesurier, Clive Dunn, Ian Lavender, James Beck(to 73),
Arnold Ridley, John Laurie, Bill Pertwee, Frank Williams, Edward Sinclair,
Talfryn Thomas
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Dead Ernest (82) ITV(Central) Julian Roach & John Stevenson
Teacher dies and goes to heaven
Andrew Sachs, Ken Jones, Harry Fowler
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Dear John (86,87x,3rd series?) BBC John Sullivan
Therapy/encounter group for singles
Ralph Bates, Belinda Lang, Peter Blake
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Dear Ladies (83,ny84) BBC Gyles Brandreth
Dame Hilda Bracket & Dr Evadne hinge "at home" in Stackton Tressel
George Logan, Patrick Fyffe (female impersonators)
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Dear Mother ... Love Albert (69,70,71) ITV(Yorkshire)
Derrick Goodwin & Rodney Bewes
Yorkshire boy in seedy London writes euphemistic letters home
(see also Albert, the '72 continuation)
Rodney Bewes, Christine Hargreaves, Garfield Morgan, Sheila White
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Desmond's (89,90,91-,92,93,94) C4 Trix Worrell 93,94:various writers
Hairdressers
Norman Beaton, Carmen Munroe, Ram John Holder, Gyearbour Asante,
Geff Francis, Robbie Gee, Valerie Murray, Kim Walker, Justin Pickett,
Chris Toomey(94only?), Dean Gatiss(94only?)
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Divided We Stand (87) BBC Myra Taylor
Unhappily married couple, living in Birmingham
Anna Keaveney, Shaun Curry
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Doctor At Large (71) ITV(LWT) writers various, include:
Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Bernard McKenna,
Geoff Rowley, Andy Baker, Oliver Fry, Jonathan Lynn, David A Yallop
Continuation of Doctor In The House (after graduation)
Barry Evans(71), Geoffrey Davies, George Layton, Richard O'Sullivan,
Ernest Clark
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Doctor At Sea (74) ITV(LWT) writers include:
Layton, Lynn, McKenna, Richard Laing, Gail Renard
2 ships doctors
Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davies, Ernest Clark, John Grieve, Bob Todd
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Doctor At The Top (91) BBC1 George Layton & Bill Oddie
They're consultants now (I think)
Geoffrey Davies, George Layton, Robin Nedwell, Jill Benedict
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Doctor In Charge (72,73) ITV(LWT) writers include:
1972 - Chapman, McKenna, Garden, Oddie, Lynn, George Layton,
1973 - Layton, Lynn, McKenna, Phil Redmond, Gail Renard, David Sherlock,
David Askey
further continuation of DoctorInTheHouse/DoctorAtLarge
Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davies, George Layton, Richard O'Sullivan,
Ernest Clark, Helen Fraser
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Doctor In The House (69,70) ITV(LWT), writers various, include:
Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Barry Cryer
Medical students hijinks
Barry Evans, George Layton, ?Richard O'Sullivan?only1season?,
Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davies, Ernest Clark, Simon Cuff,
Martin Shaw (69), Jonathan Lynn (70)
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Doctor On The Go (75,77) ITV(LWT) writers include:
1975 - Layton, Lynn, McKenna, Laing, Renard, Steve Thorn, Paul Wolfson
1977 - Yallop, Thorn, Wolfson, McKenna, Chapman, Renard, Selwyn Roberts,
Douglas Adams, Rob Buckman, Chris Beetles, Brenda Crankmen.
^^pseudonym^^
More medical mishaps.
Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davis, Ernest Clark, Andrew Know
#
Doctor Down Under was an Australian production
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Doctors And Nurses (79-) ITV Rob Buckman & Chris Beetles
Hospital send-up, adult patients, kid staff
<cast>
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Doctor's Daughters (81) ITV(ATV) Richard Gordon & Ralph Thomas
3 venerable GPs upset when practice taken over by young women
Patrick Newell, Jack Watling, Bill Fraser, Richard Murdoch, Lesley Duff,
Victoria Burgoyne
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Dogfood Dan And The Caernarvon Cowboy (p82) ITV (88) BBC David Nobbs
? Caemarthen ? (and spelling of either name?)
2 truckers take dogfood between Wales & NE England, meeting halfway.
Peter Blake (if he's the Medallion Man in Dear John) and a lugubrious
looking chap whose name escapes me(ie the contributor of this entry)
#
Don't Drink The Water (74,75) ITV(LWT) Ronald Wolfe & Ronald Chesney
Blakey from 'On the Buses' retires to Spain
Stephen Lewis, Pat Coombes
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Don't Forget To Write! (77,78,79) BBC Charles Wood
Playwright with writer's block [?sitcom or (1vote)comedy drama?]
George Cole, Gwen Watford, Francis Matthews
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Don't Rock The Boat (82,83) ITV(Thames) John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
Boat owner with 2 grown sons remarries
Nigel Davenport, Sheila White, David Janson, John Price
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Don't Tell Father (92) BBC Roy Clarke
Insufferable actor miffed when daughter falls for driving instructor
Tony Britton, Caroline Quentin, Susan Hampshire
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Don't Wait Up (83,84,85-,87,88,90) BBC George Layton
Father & son doctors share flat
Nigel Havers, Tony Britton
#
Dora (72ab) ITV(LWT) ?writer
<synopsis>
Dora Bryan, Ivor Dean
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Double First (88) BBC John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
Mysteriously fallen ex-professor lives with Oxford uni acquaintances
Michael Williams, Holly Aird, Ann Bell, Jennifer Hilary
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Down The 'Gate (75) ITV Maurice Sellar & Roy Tuvey
Billingsgate fish market
Reg Varney, Dilys Laye, Tony Melody
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Downwardly Mobile (94) ITV Alistair Beaton & Barry Pilton
Broke ex-stockbroker & wife move in with brother & wife
Frances De La Tour, Philip Jackson, Josie Lawrence, Stephen Tompkinson
#
Dream Stuffing (approx84) C4 ?writers
Inner city?
2 girls share flat: punk & richkid. "Eighties Liver Birds"
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Drop The Dead Donkey (90,91,93,94) C4(Hat Trick) Andy Hamilton & Guy Jenkin
TV newsroom
Haydn Gwynne(not 93), Jeff Rawle, David Swift, Neil Pearson,
Ingrid Lacey(93), Victoria Wicks, Susannah Doyle(not91), Robert Duncan,
Stephen Tompkinson
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Duty Free (84ab,86) ITV(Yorkshire) Eric Chappell and Jean Warr
2 couples on holiday, one of each pair fancy each other.
Keith Barron, Joanna Van Gyseghem, Neil Stacy, Gwen Taylor,
Carlos Douglas
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Educating Archie (58..59) ITV(AR) ?Marty Feldman did the radio version
Ventriloquism
Peter Brough was in the radio version at least
#
El CID has been adjudged a comedy-drama, though there WAS a separate plot
each week.....hmmmmm
#
Eric Sykes has a listing in Television's Greatest Hits, but most of us
remember his various series being titled just Sykes, so that's where
I've listed it
#
Ever Decreasing Circles (84,...,87,ny90) BBC John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
Compulsive organiser
Richard Briers, Peter Egan, Penelope Wilton
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Every Silver Lining (93) BBC Simon Block
Jewish couple run East End cafe
Frances de la Tour, Andrew Sachs, Oscar Quitak, David Yip, Sarah Malin,
Danny Swanson
#
Executive Stress (86,87) ITV(Thames) George Layton
Wife gets job at same publishing firm as husband, has to pretend not
Penelope Keith, Geoffrey Palmer(1st ser), Peter Bowles(2nd ser),
Paul Boyle, Harry Ditson, Elizabeth Counsell
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Fairly Secret Army (?84,86) C4 David Nobbs
Attempt to start private army in England home counties; possibly sort-of
a spin-off from The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin as it has G Palmer.
> Concerning the synopsis, the point seems to have been that the retired
> Major (Harry Truscot) forms his "army" to combat communist revolutionary
> guerillas, which the regular military doesn't believe exist. By the
> second series, much to everyone's surprise, he has encountered them.
Geoffrey Palmer, Michael Robbins, Liz Fraser
#
Fancy Wanders (80) ITV(LWT) Sid Green
Tramp imagines self and friend into fantastic situations
Dave King, Joe Marcell
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Farrington Of The F.O. (86?87) ITV(YTV) Dick Sharples
British Consul General (female) in banana republic
Angela Thorne, Tony Haygarth, John Quayle, Joan Sims
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Father Charlie (82) ITV(Central) Vince Powell
Cockney RC priest becomes chaplain to a convent.
Lionel Jeffries, Anna Quayle
#
Father Dear Father (68,69,70,71ab,72,73) ITV(Thames)
Brian Cooke & Johnnie Mortimer, later episodes by other writers
Man has 2 daughters
Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson, Joyce Carey,
Ursula Howells
#
Father Matthew's Daughter (87) BBC ?writer
<synopsis>
<cast>
#
Father's Day (83,84) C4 Peter Spence
Televisation of the Hunter Davies column from Punch
John Alderton, Dominique Barnes,
#
Fawlty Towers (75,79) BBC John Cleese & Connie Booth
Nutter runs small hotel
John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Brian Hall(79)
#
Feet First (79) ITV John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
[?sitcom]Footballer hits stardom but is out of his depth
Joe Melia, ? McGann
#
Ffizz (87,89) ITV(Thames)
Richard Fegen and Andrew Norriss
Wine importing company on verge of bankruptcy
Richard Griffiths, Benjamin Whitrow, Felicity Montagu
#
Fiddlers Three (91) ITV Eric Chappell
Office comedy, remake of The Squirrels using the original scripts
Peter Davison, Paula Wilcox, Charles Kay, Cindy Day, Peter Blake,
Tyler Butterworth
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Filthy, Rich And Catflap (87) BBC Ben Elton +Rik Mayall
Actor, minder, and agent
Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planer
#
Fire Crackers (64) ITV(ATV) Fred Robinson
Forgotten fire brigade in forgotten village
Alfred Marks, Joe Baker, Cardew Robinson
#
First Of The Summer Wine (88,89) BBC Roy Clarke
What the guys from Last Of The Summer Wine did in their youth
David Fenwick, Paul Wyett, Paul McLain, Peter Sallis, Maggie Ollerenshaw,
Richard Lumsden, Helen Patrick
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For The Love Of Ada (70ab,71) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell & Harry Driver
Two geriatrics fall in love and marry.
Irene Handl, Wilfred Pickles, Barbara Mitchell, Jack Smethurst
#
Foreign Affairs (64) ITV(Granada) Barry Took
Bootsie & Snudge enter the diplomatic service
Alfie Bass, Bill Fraser, Nicholas Phipps
#
Foreign Bodies (87ab,89) BBC ?writer
N Irish med student to marry S Ireland nurse
<cast>
#
Foxy Lady (82,84) ITV(Granada) Geoffrey Lancashire
Woman editor of 50s provincial newspaper
Diane Keen, Patrick Troughton, Geoffrey Burridge, Sean Scanlan
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Freddie And Max (90) ITV(Thames) Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais
Ageing US actress in swank hotel, young woman biography ghostwriter
Anne Bancroft, Charlotte Coleman, Richard Pearson, Ian Congden-Lee,
Flaminia Cinque
#
French Fields (89,90,91) ITV(Thames) John Chapman & Ian Davidson
French continuation of next entry
Anton Rodgers, Julia MacKenzie, Pamela Salem, Liz Crowther,
Robin Kermode
#
Fresh Fields (83,84,85,86) ITV(Thames) John Chapman
Accountant & wife after kids have left home
Anton Rodgers, Julia MacKenzie, Ann Beach, Fanny Rowe
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Full House (85,?,86) ITV(Thames) Johnnie Mortimer
Known in US as "Mixed Doubles"
Two couples decide to share in the ownership of a house.
Christopher Strauli, Brian Capron, Sabina Franklyn, Natalie Forbes
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Full Stretch (93) ITV Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais [?just light drama?]
Ex-footballer in luxury limo business
Kevin McNally, Reece Dinsdale, Sue Johnston, Wendy Morgan, Rowena King,
(David Howey, Clarence Smith), James Aubrey, (William Armstrong)
#
Further Up Pompeii (75,91)
75:BBC Talbot Rothwell, Sid Collin
91:ITV(LWT) Brian Leveson, Paul Minett
2 one-off specials: continuation of Up Pompeii
Frankie Howerd
#end of part A-F
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