"Major Gowen Major Gowen, usually known as the Major, is a fictional character played by Ballard Berkeley in the BBC sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"". Major Gowen is an old, befuddled, slightly senile, retired artillery officer permanently residing in the hotel. He appears in all 12 episodes, along with the other permanent residents Miss Gatsby and Miss Tibbs. He enjoys talking about the world (especially the cricket scores and workers' strikes) and is always on the lookout for the newspaper. He has trouble forgiving Germany for the Second World War. He often appears slightly hard of hearing, which leads to some confusion"
"ITV on December 24, 1977. Bing Crosby is surprised to receive a letter from a long-lost relative, Sir Percival Crosby, inviting the family to spend Christmas in England. Bing, his wife Kathryn and their three children – Harry, Mary and Nathaniel – fly off to Britain, reviewing their family history in song and hoping that the invitation is not a case of ""mistaken identity"". At Sir Percy's grand home, they meet Hudson, the butler; Mrs. Bridges, the cook; and Rose, the maid – all of whom are portrayed by Stanley Baxter. Sir Percy's neighbor, David Bowie, stops by to play"
"sitcom ""Many Happy Returns"", and on NBC, Crosby faced the second half of the popular ""The Andy Williams Show"", which alternated with a Jonathan Winters variety show, ""The Jonathan Winters Show"". The Bing Crosby Show (1964 TV series) The Bing Crosby Show is a 28-episode sitcom television program starring crooner, film star, iconic phenomenon, and businessman Bing Crosby and actress Beverly Garland as a married couple, Bing and Ellie Collins, rearing two teenaged daughters during the early 1960s. In the format, Crosby portrayed a former entertainer turned architectural designer with a penchant for singing, and each episode usually contained at"
"city movement, and was the driving force in the design and creation of the first garden cities, Letchworth Garden City and Welwyn Garden City, situated in Hertfordshire. Una Stubbs Una Stubbs (born 1 May 1937) is an English actress, television personality, and former dancer who has appeared on British television and in the theatre, and less frequently in films. She is particularly known for playing Rita Rawlins in the sitcoms ""Till Death Us Do Part"" and ""In Sickness and in Health"". She is also known for her role as Miss Bat in the series ""The Worst Witch"" and has most"
"Grumpy Old Women ""For the live show, see Grumpy Old Women Live"" Grumpy Old Women is a British television series, continuing in the same vein as its predecessor, ""Grumpy Old Men"". Both programmes are shown on BBC Two. The first two series were narrated by Alison Steadman, and the third by Judith Holder (who is the 'grumpy old woman' in the clips). The show started as a special one-off Christmas special; however, because of its popularity, it spawned a regular series, a book (see below) and stage show. ""for more information, see Grumpy Old Women Live"" In 2005, a live"
"show was formed, and went on a sell out national tour, as well as a spell in Australia. Grumpy Old Women ""For the live show, see Grumpy Old Women Live"" Grumpy Old Women is a British television series, continuing in the same vein as its predecessor, ""Grumpy Old Men"". Both programmes are shown on BBC Two. The first two series were narrated by Alison Steadman, and the third by Judith Holder (who is the 'grumpy old woman' in the clips). The show started as a special one-off Christmas special; however, because of its popularity, it spawned a regular series, a"
"Thick as Thieves (TV series) Thick as Thieves is a British sitcom which was broadcast on ITV between 1 June and 20 July 1974 and produced by LWT. It was created and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. There were 8 episodes over one series and starred Bob Hoskins, John Thaw and Pat Ashton. The plot revolves mainly around George (Bob Hoskins), whose last job as a house burglar ended up with his getting sent to prison. After three long years, he returns to his home and wife Annie (Pat Ashton), only to find everything is not quite"
"goes on with her taking charge of her family's business before descending into vengeful madness, adopting Estella, and arranging the meeting of Estella and Pip. A young version of Miss Havisham is portrayed by Tuppence Middleton in the 2015 BBC TV series ""Dickensian"". The series gives her the first name Amelia and references the period of her life in the months running up to her wedding. Satis House is relocated to London within the same community as other characters from novels by Dickens. In film adaptations of ""Great Expectations"", Miss Havisham has been played by a number of distinguished actresses,"
"Grandma's House Grandma's House is a sitcom television series broadcast on BBC Two. Written by Simon Amstell and long term collaborator Dan Swimer, the series stars Simon Amstell playing a version of himself: an ex-television presenter searching for meaning in his life. Each episode takes place at his Grandma's house, where Grandma (Linda Bassett) welcomes her family, desperate to see everyone happy. The first series was shown in 2010, the second in 2012. In December 2012 Amstell stated that there would not be a third series. The show was created and written by Simon Amstell and Dan Swimer. Six 30-minutes"
"The Old Curiosity Shop (2007 film) The Old Curiosity Shop is a British television film adapted from the Charles Dickens's novel ""The Old Curiosity Shop"". It stars Irish actress Sophie Vavasseur as Nell Trent, with Derek Jacobi as her grandfather, Toby Jones as Quilp and George MacKay as Nell's friend, Kit. It was broadcast on 26 December 2007 on ITV. The adaptation is in general very faithful to the novel. The most major changes are the deletion of Garlands and their household and the identity of the Single Gentleman (here called Jacob) who is changed from Grandfather's brother to his"
"The Old Guys The Old Guys is a British sitcom that revolves around two ageing housemates: Tom Finnan (Roger Lloyd-Pack) and Roy Bowden (Clive Swift). The pair live across the street from Sally (Jane Asher), whom they both find attractive. Tom moved in with Roy after Roy's wife Penny deserted him. Baby boomer Tom has little in life but his daughter Amber (Katherine Parkinson), who is dating Sally's son Steve (Justin Edwards). Roy is a suburban pensioner who believes that he is one of the country's leading intellectuals. It premiered on 31 January 2009 on BBC One, and aired on"
"Una Stubbs Una Stubbs (born 1 May 1937) is an English actress, television personality, and former dancer who has appeared on British television and in the theatre, and less frequently in films. She is particularly known for playing Rita Rawlins in the sitcoms ""Till Death Us Do Part"" and ""In Sickness and in Health"". She is also known for her role as Miss Bat in the series ""The Worst Witch"" and has most recently appeared as Sherlock Holmes's landlady Mrs Hudson in the BAFTA award-winning television series ""Sherlock"". During 1958–59, Stubbs was the ""cover girl"" of Dairy Box chocolates, produced"
"Two Fat Ladies Two Fat Ladies is a BBC2 television cooking programme starring Clarissa Dickson Wright and Jennifer Paterson. It originally ran for four series, from 9 October 1996 to 28 September 1999, being produced by Optomen Television for the BBC. Since then, the show has been repeated frequently on the Food Network and Cooking Channel in the U.S. and on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Australia. In the UK, the show has been transmitted many times on the satellite channel Good Food. The show centred on Clarissa Dickson Wright and Jennifer Paterson, travelling the United Kingdom for most of"
"of nearly thirty years were: She died of cancer in Purbrook, Hampshire on 24 October 2002 aged 65. Charmian May Charmian May (16 June 1937 – 24 October 2002) was an English actress best known for her television and film roles, she appeared in sitcoms ""The Good Life"", ""Keeping Up Appearances"" and 'film 'Bridget Jones's Diary"". She also appeared in ""The Worst Witch"" as Miss Pentangle, in ""Weirdsister College"" as Prof. Alicia Thunderblast, and she was Miss Milton in the Yorkshire Television series, ""You're Only Young Twice"". She also toured in the 1970s in a production of ""The Importance of"
"Great Night Out Great Night Out is an upbeat British comedy-drama based in Stockport, North-West England that aired on ITV in early 2013. The series follows the misadventures of four thirty-something former school friends from Stockport, Matthew 'Beggsy' Begg (William Ash), Paddy 'Hodge' Hodgkinson (Lee Boardman), Glyn Thwaite (Craig Parkinson), and Darren 'Daz' Taylor (Stephen Walters). All four love football and are lifelong fans of Stockport County. Hodge has been married for five years prior to the first episode, whilst Daz is in a long-term relationship. Glyn and Beggsy both get girlfriends as the series progresses. They frequent their local"
"Mrs Biggs Mrs Biggs is a 2012 British television series based on the true story of the wife of the Great Train Robber, Ronnie Biggs. The series covers Mrs Charmian Biggs' journey from naïve young woman to Biggs' wife and the mother of three young sons. Money worries force her husband to ask for a loan from Bruce Reynolds, planner of the most famous crime in British history, the Great Train Robbery of August 1963. The aftermath of the train robbery and Biggs subsequent escape from prison leads to a life of flight for Charmian and her children as she"
"were later made: ""George and Mildred"" and ""Robin's Nest"". In 2004, it came 69th in a poll to find ""Britain's Best Sitcom"". The series was remade in the United States as ""Three's Company"" in 1977. A film version was released in 1974. Chrissy and Jo live in a London flat together. They both work for the same firm. The women find a stranger, student chef Robin Tripp, asleep in their bath the morning after the farewell party for their departed flatmate Eleanor. When he meets the two girls, Robin has been in London two days, having moved from Southampton to"
"Old Vic in London. In 2011, she was cast as part of Sky 1's new comedy-drama ""Mount Pleasant"". She played the role of Sue, Lisa's mum, in the first two series running into 2012. She didn't return to the third series in 2013, and her character was killed off in the fourth series in 2014. In late 2015, she appeared as Mrs Gamp in the BBC TV series ""Dickensian"". Collins was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2001 Birthday Honours for services to drama. Collins married actor John Alderton in 1969 and lives in"
"Robin's Nest Robin's Nest is a British sitcom made by Thames Television, which aired on the ITV network for six series from 11 January 1977 to 31 March 1981. It starred Richard O'Sullivan as Robin Tripp, one of the lead characters in the sitcom ""Man About the House"", which had ended on 7 April 1976, and co-starred Tessa Wyatt as Robin's girlfriend - and later wife - Vicky, and Tony Britton as her father. In the first episode Robin and Vicky, who share a flat over a Chinese take-away, discover that the tenants have disappeared owing rent to the landlord,"
"estranged son and Nell's father. The Old Curiosity Shop (2007 film) The Old Curiosity Shop is a British television film adapted from the Charles Dickens's novel ""The Old Curiosity Shop"". It stars Irish actress Sophie Vavasseur as Nell Trent, with Derek Jacobi as her grandfather, Toby Jones as Quilp and George MacKay as Nell's friend, Kit. It was broadcast on 26 December 2007 on ITV. The adaptation is in general very faithful to the novel. The most major changes are the deletion of Garlands and their household and the identity of the Single Gentleman (here called Jacob) who is changed"
"Tib to their first real theatrical experience, a dramatized version of ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" at the Opera House. Betsy befriends the lonely Mrs. Poppy, who welcomes the chance to share the little girls' affection after having lost her only daughter in the years before moving to town. Through this friendship, the girls not only enjoy parties at the Poppy Hotel, but also participate in a theatrical production of ""Rip Van Winkle"" that lets Mrs. Poppy reunite Betsy's mother, Mrs. Ray, with her long-lost brother. Betsy and her friends also discover the temptations of dime novels, prompting Betsy to try her"
"Mrs. Slocombe Mrs Mary Elizabeth Jennifer Rachel Abergavenny ""Betty"" Slocombe née Yiddell is a fictional character from the BBC One comedy shows, ""Are You Being Served?"" and ""Grace & Favour"". She was originally played by Mollie Sugden and subsequently by Sherrie Hewson in a one-off 2016 revival. Mary Elizabeth Jennifer Rachel Abergavenny Slocombe (née Yiddell), known as Betty, was born in 1926 in Blackpool. Mrs Slocombe is the Senior of the Ladies Department and known for her unusual hair colours, such as lime green, purple and orange. Throughout the series, her husband was alluded to have either left Mrs Slocombe,"
"London in the 1980s and tells the tale of Grandpa, a World War II flying ace, who now sadly suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. When his family can no longer look after him he is moved to an old people’s home called Twilight Towers, run by Miss Swine. It soon becomes clear Miss Swine is running Twilight Towers for her own good profit and it is up to Grandpa and his grandson Jack to make a daring escape. Grandpa took a final chance to show his past and once again rode in his beloved Spitfire. Linda Lawlor from ""The Book Bag"""
"Stackton Tressel Stackton Tressel is a fictional, archetypical English village. Originally featuring in the 1974 Edinburgh Festival and then on the London stage, the exploits of its most notable residents, Doctor Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket, were broadcast by the BBC – on both radio and television – during the 1970s and 1980s. The radio series included: There were 21 episodes of ""Dear Ladies"", as the BBC TV programme was called, broadcast for the first time in 1983/4. The writers were George Logan and Patrick Fyffe, who played the starring roles, plus Gyles Brandreth. Stackton Tressel (or simply Stackton)"
"You're Only Young Twice You're Only Young Twice was a British TV sitcom made and broadcast on the ITV network by Yorkshire Television from 6 September 1977 to 4 August 1981. Set in Paradise Lodge Retirement Home, ""YOYT"" was created and written by the writing partnership of Michael Ashton and Pam Valentine and starred Peggy Mount as Flora Petty, with Pat Coombs as her sidekick Cissie Lupin. The majority of the 31 episodes (broadcast throughout the show's four-year run) centre on Flora's attempts to thwart the long-suffering staff, led by Miss Milton (Charmian May). They are on occasion assisted by"
"called Jupiter, a six-wheeled 1982 Range Rover Rescue Tender named Venus, and Trevor's Bus, a 1985 Ford Transit Dormobile. Fireman Sam's colleagues are Elvis Cridlington, Station Officer Basil Steele (renamed Norris Steele in the new CGI series) and later Penny Morris (who hailed from Newtown with the firetender). The villagers are bus driver/auxiliary firefighter Trevor Evans, Italian café owner Bella Lasagne, Norman Price, Norman's mother Dilys Price, and the twins Sarah and James Jones. The objects include Bentley the Robot, M.O.P., and Mechanical Master Chef. The original series aired on BBC One, CBBC and CBeebies since it was launched in"
"satirical play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus about the aftermath of World War III, later made into a film released in 1969. In it, one of the characters, Lord Fortnum, mutates into the aforementioned humble dwelling after expressing fear of this surrealist eventuality. The popular 1970s British sitcom ""Rising Damp"" was set in a house converted into bedsits, with the landlord Rupert Rigsby played by Leonard Rossiter. Tracey Thorn, former singer in the group Everything But The Girl, has written a memoir book titled ""Bedsit Disco Queen"" published in February 2013. In ""Miss Gee,"" from W. H. Auden's Another"
"months of each other in 2014, aged 89 and 90 respectively. All four series of ""Two's Company"" have been released on DVD in the UK, the US, and Australia. Two's Company (TV series) Two's Company is a British television situation comedy series that ran from 1975-79. Produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV Network, the programme starred Elaine Stritch and Donald Sinden. Dorothy McNab (Stritch) is a US author residing in London. As she spends most of her days writing, she hires an English butler, Robert Hiller (Sinden), to help run her Chelsea home. Being the epitome of the"
"Sophia and Constance Sophia and Constance is a British drama television series that originally aired on the BBC in six episodes from 13 April to 18 May 1988. It was an adaptation of the 1908 novel ""The Old Wives' Tale"" by Arnold Bennett, which follows the lives of two sisters through the Victorian era. Alfred Burke (Mr Critchlow), Lynsey Beauchamp (Constance as a young woman) episodes 2, 3 and 5, Nigel Bradshaw (Samuel Povey) episodes 1, 2, 3 and 5, Katy Behean (Sophia as a young woman) episodes 2 to 4, Freda Dowie (Miss Insull), Patricia Routledge (Mrs Baines) episodes"
"original ""Poppy and Her"" pilot episode as a bonus feature. Maggie and Her Maggie and Her is a British sitcom starring Julia McKenzie and Irene Handl that ran from 1978-79 (though an earlier pilot episode was made and shown in 1976). Made by London Weekend Television for ITV, the series is about a divorced school teacher (played by McKenzie) and her elderly neighbour (Handl). Maggie Brooks is a 35-year-old divorced school teacher who lives in a block of flats in London. Her next door neighbour Mrs. Perry (known to Maggie as Mrs P.), is an eccentric, malapropism-prone elderly woman who"
"baby, her TV 'mother', Dandy Nichols from ""Till Death Us Do Part"", took her place. Stubbs featured in the ""Fawlty Towers"" episode ""The Anniversary"" in 1979. From 1979 to 1981, she played Aunt Sally in the ITV children's series ""Worzel Gummidge"" opposite Jon Pertwee and Barbara Windsor and was for several years a team captain in the weekly game show ""Give Us a Clue"" in the 1980s, reuniting her with Lionel Blair, the other team captain. She has appeared in shows such as ""Midsomer Murders"", ""Heartbeat"", ""Casualty"", ""Keeping Up Appearances"", ""Born and Bred"" and ""The Worst Witch"". In recent years,"
"Maggie and Her Maggie and Her is a British sitcom starring Julia McKenzie and Irene Handl that ran from 1978-79 (though an earlier pilot episode was made and shown in 1976). Made by London Weekend Television for ITV, the series is about a divorced school teacher (played by McKenzie) and her elderly neighbour (Handl). Maggie Brooks is a 35-year-old divorced school teacher who lives in a block of flats in London. Her next door neighbour Mrs. Perry (known to Maggie as Mrs P.), is an eccentric, malapropism-prone elderly woman who takes it upon herself to interfere in Maggie's life as"
"Gabby Thomas Gabby Thomas is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, ""Emmerdale"". She made her first appearance on 25 December 2001. She was played by both Annelise Manojlovic from birth in 2001 until 2015, and Jemma Giles from her birth in 2001 until 2002. The role was recast in 2016 to Rosie Bentham. Bentham took a break from the series in 2017 to sit her GCSEs, departing on 17 April 2017. Gabby made her on-screen return on 22 September 2017. Gabby is the daughter of Ashley Thomas (John Middleton) and Bernice Blackstock (Samantha Giles), the stepdaughter of"