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Up Pompeii! (BBC, 1969-1970, 14 episodes)
Up Pompeii!Frankie Howerd starred as Lurcio, slave to Ludicrus Sextus (Max Adrian) in this Rome-set period farce. Based around double-entendres and scantily clad women, each week Howerd would get himself into and out of various sex-centred scrapes.
principal writer: Talbot Rothwell

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