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Dave Budd
Mar 31, 1994, 9:46:59 AM3/31/94
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The definitive UK sitcom list, part G-M, updated: 94-03-31, 555 lines
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George & Mildred (76,77ab,78ab,79) 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 & the Dragon (66,67,68ab) ITV(ATV) ?writer
<synopsis>
Peggy Mount, Sid James
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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
Tony Selby, David Janson, Robert Lindsay, Gerard 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 (70,71) ITV(ATV) Adele Rose
<synopsis>
Julie Stevens, Denise Coffey
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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 Sweetheart (93) BBC Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran
TV repairman timeslips to 1943
Nicholas Lyndhurst, Derula Kirwan, Michelle Holmes
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Grace & 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 ?writer
Life-long puritan 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 ?writer
Tudorbethan/regency/georgian(you choose) spendthrift squire
Keith Barron, Reece Dinsdale, Sam Kelly
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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,59ab,60) BBC Ray Galton & Alan Simpson
Morose person vs. the world
Tony Hancock, Sid James, Hugh Lloyd, June Whitfield, Kenneth Williams(few)
?William Kerr?, Hattie Jacques(occasional)
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Happy Ever After (76,77,78) BBC John Chapman and Eric Merriman
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 (?,69) BBC ?writer-harry?
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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Hell's Bells (86) BBC ?writer
Trendy bishop vs. traditionalist dean
Derek Nimmo, Robert Stephens, Susan Jameson.
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Hello Cheeky was a sketch show.
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Help! (86,88) BBC ?writer
Four no-hoper dole-ite scousers
Jake Abrahams, Craig Charles
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Here's Harry (?) ?channel ?writer
<synopsis>
Harry Worth
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Hi-De-Hi! (80,81-,82-,83-,85-,87?) BBC Jimmy Perry & David Croft
Holiday camp
Paul Shane, Su Pollard, Ruth Madoc, Simon Cadell(79+), Jeffrey Holland,
David Griffin(83+?), 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
<synopsis>
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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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 ?writer
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 (82) ITV(Yorkshire) Roy Minton [1off play in 72, same writer&actor]
[WAS THIS A SITCOM? 1 CORRESPONDENT SAYS NOT]
Simple-minded but good-hearted young man
Barry Jackson
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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 (68ab) ITV(ABC/Thames) Barry Took [from the radio show]
<synopsis>
Kenneth Horne, Sheila Steafel
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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? (79,80) ITV ?writer
Widower with 2 teenage children
Harry Worth, Debbie Cumming
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Hugh & I (62) BBC ?writer
<synopsis>
Hugh Lloyd, Terry Scott, Mollie Sugden, Wendy Richard
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Hugh & 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 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 ?writer
Humiliations of an old man in the lowly job of lavatory attendant
Bob Todd, Jack Woolgar
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In Loving Memory (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, Carmel McSharry, Arthur English
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Inside George Webley (70) ITV Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall
Worrier
Roy Kinnear, Patsy Rowlands
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum (?,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.
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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 & 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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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 (83,84,86) BBC John Sullivan
On/off relationship
Paul Nicholas, Jan Francis
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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 (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 (90,91,92,93?,x93) 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 ?writer
<synopsis>
Peter Jones, Peter Butterworth
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Kinvig (81) ITV(LWT) Nigel Kneale
Sci-fi comedy: officially a 7part comedy series, not sitcom - votes?
Tony Haygarth, Patsy Rowlands, 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
Collection of misfits
Lorraine Chase, John Duttine
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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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Last of the Baskets (71,72) ITV(Granada) ?writer
[also listed in periodocals of the time as "The Last..." ]
<synopsis>
Ken Jones as heir, Arthur Lowe as butler
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Last of the Summer Wine (73,74,?75,76,77-,78,79,81,82,83,?,86,90,?,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
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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 & 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 (?88) BBC ?writer
Daft cops
Stephen Frost, Mark Arden (aka The Oblivion Boys)
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Leave It to Charlie (78,79ab,80) ITV(Granada) ?writer
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 Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke.
Confirmed bachelor falls in love with mother of three
Paul Eddington, Nanette Newman
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Life Begins at Forty (78,?79,80) ITV ?writer
40yr old becomes 1st time dad
Derek Nimmo, Rosemary Leach
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Life with the Lyons (50s) therefore BBC? ?writer
<synopsis>
Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon
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Life Without George (87) BBC Penny Croft & Val Hudson
Woman rebuilds life after being dumped
Carol Royle, Simon Cadell
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Lollipop Loves Mr Mole (71,72) ITV(ATV) Jimmy Perry
Domestic sitcom; 72 series just "Lollipop"
Hugh Lloyd & Peggy Mount, Rex Garner
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Love Thy Neighbour (72ab,75- or 75ab-) 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 ?writer
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 & 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,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) ?channel ?writer
Newlyweds
Richard Briers, Prunella Scales
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May to December (89,90,x90,91,92,93)
BBC(Cinema Verity) Paul A Mendelson, 93:Geoffrey Deane
Old solicitor with young girlfriend (wife in later series)
Anton Rodgers, Leslie Dunlop(90-...), Eve Matheson(...90),
Frances White, Rebecca Lacey, Paul Venables, Kate Williams,
Chrissie Cotterill, Carolyn Pickles, Clive Francis(89)
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Me and My Girl (84,85ab,87,88ab) ITV(LWT) ?writer
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
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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 (?) ?channel ?writer
<synopsis>
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 ?writer
Bedsit males
Harry Enfield(91), Neil Morrisey(92), Martin Clunes, Caroline Quentin,
Leslie Ash
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Men of Affairs (73) ITV ?writer [?sitcom]
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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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 ?writer
English classes for immigrants, very non-PC
Barry Evans, Francoise Pascal
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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 ?writer
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 ?writer
Single mum
Paula Wilcox
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Mister Digby Darling (69,70) ITV ?writer
<synopsis>
Sheila Hancock, Peter Jones
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Mixed Blessings (78ab,80) ITV(LWT) ?writer
Mixed race marriage [US version Bridget loves Bernie shown in UK?]
Murial Odunton, Christopher Blake
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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
Enn Reitel.
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Moody & Pegg (74) ITV(Thames) Donald Churchill & Julia Jones.
<synopsis>
Judy Cornwell, Derek Waring.
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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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Moving (85) ITV ?writer
Moving house
Penelope Keith, Ronald Pickup
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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 don and mr george (93) C4 Jack Docherty & Moray Hunter
Surreal
Jack Docherty, Moray Hunter
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Mrs Thursday (?) ?channel ?writer
Charlady made chair of company
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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My Brother's Keeper (75,76) ITV(Granada) ?writer
Brothers: student and policeman
Jonathan Lynn, George Layton, Hilary Mason.
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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
<synopsis>
Leslie Crowther, Sylvia Sims
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My Honourable Mrs (75) BBC ?writer
<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 Son Reuben (74) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell
Love/hate relationship between overbearing Jewish mother and son
Bernard Spear, Lila Kaye
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My Wife Next Door (72) BBC Richard Waring
Newly divorced couple have neighboring cottages
John Alderton, Hannah Gordon
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--
"We have no culture. Such concepts are for the primitives."
Words to live by, from Stratford Johns (playing an alien in Dr Who)
Example? There is NO reason for clitoridectomy except cultural pressure.
Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England +44 061-275-6033 (fax 6040)
D.B...@mcc.ac.uk (Densa's mole in Mensa [or was it vice-versa?]) Juggle!
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George & Mildred (76,77ab,78ab,79) 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 & the Dragon (66,67,68ab) ITV(ATV) ?writer
<synopsis>
Peggy Mount, Sid James
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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
Tony Selby, David Janson, Robert Lindsay, Gerard 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 (70,71) ITV(ATV) Adele Rose
<synopsis>
Julie Stevens, Denise Coffey
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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 Sweetheart (93) BBC Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran
TV repairman timeslips to 1943
Nicholas Lyndhurst, Derula Kirwan, Michelle Holmes
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Grace & 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 ?writer
Life-long puritan 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 ?writer
Tudorbethan/regency/georgian(you choose) spendthrift squire
Keith Barron, Reece Dinsdale, Sam Kelly
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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,59ab,60) BBC Ray Galton & Alan Simpson
Morose person vs. the world
Tony Hancock, Sid James, Hugh Lloyd, June Whitfield, Kenneth Williams(few)
?William Kerr?, Hattie Jacques(occasional)
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Happy Ever After (76,77,78) BBC John Chapman and Eric Merriman
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 (?,69) BBC ?writer-harry?
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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Hell's Bells (86) BBC ?writer
Trendy bishop vs. traditionalist dean
Derek Nimmo, Robert Stephens, Susan Jameson.
#
Hello Cheeky was a sketch show.
#
Help! (86,88) BBC ?writer
Four no-hoper dole-ite scousers
Jake Abrahams, Craig Charles
#
Here's Harry (?) ?channel ?writer
<synopsis>
Harry Worth
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Hi-De-Hi! (80,81-,82-,83-,85-,87?) BBC Jimmy Perry & David Croft
Holiday camp
Paul Shane, Su Pollard, Ruth Madoc, Simon Cadell(79+), Jeffrey Holland,
David Griffin(83+?), 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
<synopsis>
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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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 ?writer
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 (82) ITV(Yorkshire) Roy Minton [1off play in 72, same writer&actor]
[WAS THIS A SITCOM? 1 CORRESPONDENT SAYS NOT]
Simple-minded but good-hearted young man
Barry Jackson
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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 (68ab) ITV(ABC/Thames) Barry Took [from the radio show]
<synopsis>
Kenneth Horne, Sheila Steafel
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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? (79,80) ITV ?writer
Widower with 2 teenage children
Harry Worth, Debbie Cumming
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Hugh & I (62) BBC ?writer
<synopsis>
Hugh Lloyd, Terry Scott, Mollie Sugden, Wendy Richard
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Hugh & 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 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 ?writer
Humiliations of an old man in the lowly job of lavatory attendant
Bob Todd, Jack Woolgar
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In Loving Memory (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, Carmel McSharry, Arthur English
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Inside George Webley (70) ITV Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall
Worrier
Roy Kinnear, Patsy Rowlands
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum (?,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.
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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 & 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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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 (83,84,86) BBC John Sullivan
On/off relationship
Paul Nicholas, Jan Francis
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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 (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 (90,91,92,93?,x93) 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 ?writer
<synopsis>
Peter Jones, Peter Butterworth
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Kinvig (81) ITV(LWT) Nigel Kneale
Sci-fi comedy: officially a 7part comedy series, not sitcom - votes?
Tony Haygarth, Patsy Rowlands, 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
Collection of misfits
Lorraine Chase, John Duttine
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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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Last of the Baskets (71,72) ITV(Granada) ?writer
[also listed in periodocals of the time as "The Last..." ]
<synopsis>
Ken Jones as heir, Arthur Lowe as butler
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Last of the Summer Wine (73,74,?75,76,77-,78,79,81,82,83,?,86,90,?,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
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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 & 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 (?88) BBC ?writer
Daft cops
Stephen Frost, Mark Arden (aka The Oblivion Boys)
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Leave It to Charlie (78,79ab,80) ITV(Granada) ?writer
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 Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke.
Confirmed bachelor falls in love with mother of three
Paul Eddington, Nanette Newman
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Life Begins at Forty (78,?79,80) ITV ?writer
40yr old becomes 1st time dad
Derek Nimmo, Rosemary Leach
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Life with the Lyons (50s) therefore BBC? ?writer
<synopsis>
Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon
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Life Without George (87) BBC Penny Croft & Val Hudson
Woman rebuilds life after being dumped
Carol Royle, Simon Cadell
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Lollipop Loves Mr Mole (71,72) ITV(ATV) Jimmy Perry
Domestic sitcom; 72 series just "Lollipop"
Hugh Lloyd & Peggy Mount, Rex Garner
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Love Thy Neighbour (72ab,75- or 75ab-) 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 ?writer
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 & 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,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) ?channel ?writer
Newlyweds
Richard Briers, Prunella Scales
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May to December (89,90,x90,91,92,93)
BBC(Cinema Verity) Paul A Mendelson, 93:Geoffrey Deane
Old solicitor with young girlfriend (wife in later series)
Anton Rodgers, Leslie Dunlop(90-...), Eve Matheson(...90),
Frances White, Rebecca Lacey, Paul Venables, Kate Williams,
Chrissie Cotterill, Carolyn Pickles, Clive Francis(89)
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Me and My Girl (84,85ab,87,88ab) ITV(LWT) ?writer
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
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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 (?) ?channel ?writer
<synopsis>
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 ?writer
Bedsit males
Harry Enfield(91), Neil Morrisey(92), Martin Clunes, Caroline Quentin,
Leslie Ash
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Men of Affairs (73) ITV ?writer [?sitcom]
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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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 ?writer
English classes for immigrants, very non-PC
Barry Evans, Francoise Pascal
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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 ?writer
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 ?writer
Single mum
Paula Wilcox
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Mister Digby Darling (69,70) ITV ?writer
<synopsis>
Sheila Hancock, Peter Jones
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Mixed Blessings (78ab,80) ITV(LWT) ?writer
Mixed race marriage [US version Bridget loves Bernie shown in UK?]
Murial Odunton, Christopher Blake
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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
Enn Reitel.
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Moody & Pegg (74) ITV(Thames) Donald Churchill & Julia Jones.
<synopsis>
Judy Cornwell, Derek Waring.
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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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Moving (85) ITV ?writer
Moving house
Penelope Keith, Ronald Pickup
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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 don and mr george (93) C4 Jack Docherty & Moray Hunter
Surreal
Jack Docherty, Moray Hunter
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Mrs Thursday (?) ?channel ?writer
Charlady made chair of company
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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My Brother's Keeper (75,76) ITV(Granada) ?writer
Brothers: student and policeman
Jonathan Lynn, George Layton, Hilary Mason.
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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
<synopsis>
Leslie Crowther, Sylvia Sims
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My Honourable Mrs (75) BBC ?writer
<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 Son Reuben (74) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell
Love/hate relationship between overbearing Jewish mother and son
Bernard Spear, Lila Kaye
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My Wife Next Door (72) BBC Richard Waring
Newly divorced couple have neighboring cottages
John Alderton, Hannah Gordon
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--
"We have no culture. Such concepts are for the primitives."
Words to live by, from Stratford Johns (playing an alien in Dr Who)
Example? There is NO reason for clitoridectomy except cultural pressure.
Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England +44 061-275-6033 (fax 6040)
D.B...@mcc.ac.uk (Densa's mole in Mensa [or was it vice-versa?]) Juggle!
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