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Nearest And Dearest
(ITV, 1968-1973, 46 episodes) |
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North Country comedy was rooted in Blackpool-style humour and starred diminutive
battler Hylda Baker (Nellie), complete with her 'He knows, you know' catchphrase
and armoury of double entendres and malapropisms, and Jimmy Jewel (Eli), the
veteran comic, as a leering Lothario who inexplicably manages to pull all
the blonde young beauties.
principal Writers: Tom Brennand/Roy Bottomley/John Stevenson |
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Never the Twain (ITV, 1981-1991, 67 episodes) |
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 Simon Peel (Donald Sinden) and Oliver Smallbridge (Windsor Davies) contest a bitter rivalry in everything they do. Not only are they next-door-neighbours but also competing antique dealers. The comedy centred on class and culture snobbery.
principal Writers: Vince Powell/Johnnie Mortimer/John Kane |
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The New Statesman (ITV, 1987-1994, 29 episodes) |
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 Rik
Mayall played unscrupulous, arrogant and corrupt MP Alan B'Stard in this broad
political satire. B'Stard's money-grabbing wife Sarah was played by Marsha
Fitzalan, and his put-upon Parliamentary aide Piers Fletcher-Dervish by Michael
Troughton.
Writers: Laurence Marks/Maurice Gran |
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Nightingales (C4, 1990-1993, 13 episodes) |
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 Three
security guards (Robert Lindsay, David Threlfall and James Ellis) while away
the night shift in bizarre ways at the top of a high rise office block. The
comedy was surreal and dark, and seemed to take place in a fantasy world.
Writer: Paul Makin |
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No Problem! (C4, 1983-1985, 27 episodes) |
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 Set
in a council house in Willesden Green, London, the comedy focused on the young
adult Powell children, whose parents have returned to Jamaica, leaving their
offspring to fend for themselves. Terri (Shope Shodeinde) wants to be a model,
Beast (Malcolm Frederick) opens a nightclub, and Toshiba (Chris Tummings)
runs a pirate radio station.
Writers: Mustapha Matura/Farrukh Dondy |
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