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- Beryl Humphries, a milkman's wife, works as a charlady and is content with her life--until her 40th birthday looms inescapably large and forces her to wonder if there is more to life than just being a mother of three and running the family home.Votes28
- David Deacon is a football mad milkman working at Dawsons Diaries, The laughs circle around the fact that he is constantly trying to deliver to the local housewives, and not just dairy products. His misfit work colleagues also seem to interested in doing anything but their job.Votes43
- Geyser (Colin Welland), Wobbly Ron (David Kelly) and Eric (James Wardroper) are a useless shower of handymen who worked for Joe Jones Limited because no-one else would employ them The action concerns their many inept efforts to perform their work.Votes45
- A Pakistani Irishman Kevin O'Grady arrives in England and joins the workforce at a novelty objects manufacturers. He also shares digs with his factory manager. He quickly becomes bemused with British labour practices and suffers the slings and arrows of racism.Votes148
- Harry Turnbull (Lee Montague) is a top football/soccer manager and the talented but dim Terry Prince (Jonathan Barlow) his star striker. Hamilton Defries (Doug Fisher) is the manipulative PR man for the club.The name of the football club is never revealed. It's only ever referred to as 'the club'.Votes8
- Comedy series starring Harry H Corbett (in his final series), as Grundy, a recently divorced puritanical newsagent who hates the notion of a 'permissive society' and rallies against it. He strikes up a friendship with Beryl Loomis (Lynda Baron) whose husband actually ran off with Grundy's wife.Votes13
- Comedy about the generation gap. Featuring three generations of Edwards. The rascally grandfather Ted, father Eddie (Michael Robbins, the star of the series,and his drop out son Edward. Eddie is caught in the middle, able to comprehend neither his father nor his son, although the two of them get along together perfectly well. And there's more friction because Eddie also does not understand his wife Doreen and his daughter Christine.
- Crime drama based on the true exploits of retired Liverpool CID Detective Sergeant William Prendergast who spent 28 years with the Liverpool CID. He was as tough as they come and specialised in interrogations at which he was very successful.
- Seth Raven is the 'odd job man' in a small beautiful Yorkshire village called Langley Bottom. He spends most of his time poking his nose into other people's business. He is effectively a pest who via meeting a variety of local misfits in the local pub uncovers a lot of the. Villages secrets
- Freddie Garrity lead singer from Freddie & The Dreamers) was the star of this show. It was A very madcap kids entertainment series featuring a mixture of music, variety acts and sketches. The third series featured a totally surreal world of crazy machines.Votes9
- Bunjy Kenefick is an Irish mother's boy living in London. He is a high-powered executive and lives a bachelor lifestyle. However, his old-fashioned Catholic mother often puts a stop to his plans, many of them involving his girlfriend Miss Argyll.Votes28
- Barry Ovis (Brian Rix) is Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister for European Affairs Sir William Mainwaring-Brown (Warren Mitchell). Sir William has a very active libido and gets up to non=portfolio activities. Ovis has to cover for him (usually very badly) and misunderstanding pile on top of misunderstanding.
- Comedy series where Stacey Smith (Hattie Jacques) as private investigator Stacey Smith, who works in London for the Stanton Detective Agency, run by Harry Stanton (Jameson Clark). She is given trivial investigations but her misadventures always offered more excitement than was expected. At same time she was on the lookout for the right man.
- This series took a swipe at law and order, with young policeman Brian Booth (George Layton) continually in conflict with his 'right on' twin Pete (Jonathan Lynn) as his twin brother a militant student, forever girl chasing, getting drunk and going on or getting protests against what seems to be everything. .Votes8
- Norman Wisdom played 'Nobody', a loser with no personality of his own. But when he puts any hat on, he adopted the characteristics of its owner. He had a girlfriend, Grace (Priscilla Morgan) and lived with his domineering mother (Natalie Kent), who didn't like Grace. Weekly, Nobody found himself in a different situation, playing a variation on his character. One episode had him as a character called Joe Nobody doing a brilliant impersonation of Peter Falk's Columbo; in another, he was seriously beaten by gangsters.Votes11
- Bachelor Ronnie (Ronnie Corbett) lives with his mother in Bramley in the heart of suburbia. Every day he is seen off by his mother into an ever-changing world in which he seems to fight everything while trying to maintain the exterior of a pleasant liberal persona.Votes15
- Nine incompatible people chip in together to purchase and inhabit a run-down house. Librarian Georgina Ruddy (Hattie Jacques) who must keep quiet at work all day so makes up for it by being extremely noisy at home with council official Simon Willow (Charles Hawtrey) and unemployable Daisy Burke (Joan Sims). The rest of misfits include young Norman Rossington as law student Gordon Brent; newlyweds; and a shy bank clerk and his violin-playing wife. Although series two of "Our House" had 26 episodes, ITV decided to stop showing them in the London area after just seven fortnightly airings. The remaining 19 episodes were seen on a weekly basis elsewhere in the country.Votes19
- Thora Parker (Thora Hird) is the landlady of a North Country boarding house that predominantly caters for showbiz types. Everything must be in place, she is always precise. She oversees the comings and goings of her boarders while caring for her two children, Alan and Vera as well as her mother. but she can't stop her neighbour, Elsie, from borrowing anything that isn't nailed down!
- Drama deals with a magistrates' court, which usually is their first encounter with the law in the U.K. The stories evolve around the types of crimes that are presented there from parking offenses to murder. We meet the variety of characters who make there way through this procedure and follow them to their fate.Votes13
- Gangland drama Follows the fortunes of South London crime boss Alan Spindoe "Ray McAnally" After serving for seven years for receiving and there should have been other charges. Now he's out after receiving full remission and he expects a the royal treatment from his gang. Unfortunately his empire has been usurped by Eddie Edwards "Anthony Bate", the caretaker he left in charge. He has also taken his wife.Votes38
- Centres on the lives of three single girls living in bedsit-land in London SW3. It featured daffy cellist Victoria (Liza Goddard) actress Kate (Susan Jameson), and cockney art student Avril (Angela Down). It follows their lives, loves, careers, and families.Votes31
- George Mangham (Edward Woodward) is a talented world-weary jazz composer who has fallen on hard times and lives in a seedy world. He now works as a bass player at 'Larry's Club' in London.George lives alone with his cat, drinks endlessly and gambles. He plans on marrying a woman he does not love. He is forever being harassed by gangsters who he owes money to.Votes9
- Serial in six parts charting 10 years of a marriage from wedding night to the present time. 2 : Eight Years Ago - Winter Lu's dream is that Jack should be happy. Their hopes are hatched in a little two up, two down house. Starred Duggie Brown as Jack and Sharon Duce as Lu.Votes8
- Eric Sykes plays a harassed secretary to Prince's Hill Golf Club, located on a private estate. An establishment steeped in chauvinism, ethnic prejudice, homophobia, snobbery and nationalism, and drowning in desperate financial straits. Most of the action took place in the bar ie the nineteenth hole.Votes24
- William "Spider" Scott has a spare "Y" chromosome in his cell structure, which makes him very tall but also gives him a compulsion to steal.Votes57