"Tom and Jerry: Santa's Little Helpers Tom and Jerry: Santa's Little Helpers is a 2014 animated Direct-to-DVD special starring Tom and Jerry and the Christmas special of ""The Tom and Jerry Show"", produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It was made available as part of a 2-disc DVD set of the same name, which also contains 29 other ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoons and episodes from ""Tom and Jerry Tales"", on October 7, 2014. Jerry and Tuffy are living the good life in Santa's workshop, until the unfortunate day on which Tom is rescued by the Clause family. With Tom in the"
"Barbara (TV series) Barbara is an English sitcom starring Gwen Taylor in the title role. A pilot was broadcast in 1995, and three series were then televised on ITV from 1999 to 2003. It was made by Central Television, and filmed at their Lenton Lane studios in Nottingham in front of a live studio audience. The majority of location scenes for the series were filmed in various suburbs of Nottingham, including Mapperley and West Bridgford, with other scenes filmed around Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. The series is regularly repeated on ITV3. ""Barbara"" was first shown as a pilot within the ""Comedy"
"exception' to the otherwise unimpressive 'commitment to comedy shown by ITV', as represented by shows such as ""Sam's Game"" and ""Babes in the Wood"" Barbara (TV series) Barbara is an English sitcom starring Gwen Taylor in the title role. A pilot was broadcast in 1995, and three series were then televised on ITV from 1999 to 2003. It was made by Central Television, and filmed at their Lenton Lane studios in Nottingham in front of a live studio audience. The majority of location scenes for the series were filmed in various suburbs of Nottingham, including Mapperley and West Bridgford, with"
"Tom Tom (TV series) Tom Tom (1965–1970) was a science-themed children's television series on the BBC, from BBC Bristol. Presented initially by Jeremy Carrad and John Earle, and from July 1968 by Norman Tozer. It later featured three female presenters - Janet Kelly (July–December 1968), future BBC TV newsreader Jan Leeming (1970) and Michele Brown (who later married Giles Brandreth). First broadcast on 12 October 1965, the series replaced an earlier title from the same production team, ""Treasure House"" (13th October 1964 - 21 July 1965) hosted by Carrad together with a robotic hound named ‘Serendipity Dog’ (a pun on"
"(1967), ""White Cargo"" (1973), ""The Slipper and the Rose"" (1976) and ""Bloodbath at the House of Death"" (1983). The drama ""War and Remembrance"" (1988) playing Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory was Barrett's last acting job. Tim Barrett died in 1990 aged 61. Tim Barrett (actor) Tim Barrett (31 May 1929 – 20 August 1990) was an English actor best remembered for playing Malcolm Harris, Terry's boss, in Series 3–7 of the classic UK sitcom ""Terry and June"". Barrett took the role of Malcolm Harris in ""Terry and June"" after the original actor Terence Alexander was unavailable to return for production to begin"
"would learn along the way that he had a daughter he never knew (Margo) via a long-ago affair with nurse Lyla Montgomery (Veleka Gray, then for a decade, Anne Sward), who was Maggie Crawford's sister. Margo began an affair with James Stenbeck which broke up his marriage to Barbara. Dee left town, in 1983. James supposedly accidentally plunged to his death when he tried to kill John, Karen, Ariel, Dusty Donovan (Brian Bloom) (who was revealed to be the true Stenbeck heir; and Gunnar's biological son) and Gunnar on a small cargo airplane leaving the Caribbean while he and Gunnar"
"middle-class suburban couple who decide to quit the rat race and become self-sufficient, much to the consternation of their snooty but well-meaning neighbour Margo and her down-to-earth husband Jerry Leadbetter (played by Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington). Kendal appeared in all 30 episodes, which extended over four series and two specials from 1975 to 1978. Kendal has said that she can be ""short-tempered and difficult"", in contrast to the generally cheerful, patient and upbeat Barbara, with whom the public have come to associate her. Kendal made her stage debut aged nine months, when she was carried on stage as a"
"Tim Barrett (actor) Tim Barrett (31 May 1929 – 20 August 1990) was an English actor best remembered for playing Malcolm Harris, Terry's boss, in Series 3–7 of the classic UK sitcom ""Terry and June"". Barrett took the role of Malcolm Harris in ""Terry and June"" after the original actor Terence Alexander was unavailable to return for production to begin on the Christmas Show as he had just started playing Charlie Hungerford in ""Bergerac"". Barrett played Malcolm from the 1980 Christmas Special to the seventh series of the show transmitted in late 1983, he was replaced in the eighth series"
"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"
"Happy (1960 TV series) Happy is an American sitcom that aired on NBC in 1960 and 1961. The series stars Ronnie Burns, the son of George Burns and Gracie Allen. Burns appears as Chris Day, the manager of the Desert Palm Hotel in the resort city of Palm Springs, California. His co-stars were Yvonne Lime Fedderson as his wife, Sally; Lloyd Corrigan as Sally's Uncle Charlie; Doris Packer as Clara Mason, a woman romantically interested in Charlie; Burt Metcalfe as their friend Joe Brigham; and Wanda Shannon as Terry Brigham, Joe's wife. Chris and Sally have an infant son, Christopher"
"discovered that she had been bitten by a mosquito. She recovered rather quickly, but was astounded to learn that Tom had defended the woman who had supposedly killed her father John, Dee Stewart! Margo broke up with Tom and discovered that she was pregnant. Sadly, Margo miscarried the baby. Tom misinterpreted the situation and mistakenly believed that she'd had an abortion. Later Margo would take Tom back, when she learned that John was still alive. Finally, in the summer of 1983, Margo and Tom married in an impromptu ceremony in the park. Their first crisis came when Barbara decided she"
"The Good Life (1975 TV series) The Good Life is a British sitcom, produced by BBC television. It ran from 4 April 1975 to 10 June 1978 on BBC One and was written by Bob Larbey and John Esmonde. Opening with the midlife crisis of Tom Good, a 40-year-old London plastics designer, it relates the joys and miseries he and his wife Barbara experience when they attempt to escape modern commercial living by ""becoming totally self-sufficient"" in their home in Surbiton. In 2004, it came 9th in ""Britain's Best Sitcom"". In the United States, it aired on various PBS stations"
"movies (such as Terry's dig at Bob, on learning that he's becoming middle class, that his new friends include ""Bob and Carole, and Ted and Alice""a reference to the 1969 film of that name). The BBC decided not to commission a third series of the show, partly because Dick Clement and Ian LaFrenais had written a pilot script for another 1973 series, entitled ""Seven of One"", in which Ronnie Barker appeared in seven different situations from different writers, each of which was a try-out for a possible series. The BBC decided they liked best the one by Clement and LaFrenais,"
"George. Campion leaves the house with everyone's gratitude, and some interesting gifts. The device Uncle Andrew used is similar to one in a Sherlock Holmes story The Problem of Thor Bridge. The story was faithfully adapted for television by the BBC, the second of eight Campion stories starring Peter Davison as Campion and Brian Glover as Lugg. The film also featured Mary Morris (in her last role; she died some months before it was broadcast) as Great-aunt Caroline and Timothy West as William. Originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes, the original UK air date was 5 February 1989. The"
"Barlow at Large Barlow at Large is a British television programme broadcast in the 1970s, starring Stratford Johns in the title role. Johns had previously played Barlow in the ""Z-Cars"", ""Softly, Softly"" and """" series on BBC television during the 1960s and early 1970s. ""Barlow at Large"" began as a three-part self-contained spin-off from ""Softly, Softly: Taskforce"" in 1971 with Barlow co-opted by the Home Office to investigate police corruption in Wales. Johns left ""Softly, Softly"" for good in 1972, but returned for a further series of ""Barlow at Large"" in the following year, Barlow having gone on full-time secondment"
"cast of cavemen and cavewomen, and ""Football Crazy"" (also for ITV) which was a children's sitcom about the football team Wormwood Rovers. In 1975, Esmonde and Larbey created their best-known situation comedy: ""The Good Life"", starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith. Set in Surbiton, London, it concerns itself with the attempts of Tom and Barbara Good (Briers and Kendal) to be self-sufficient after they decide to leave the rat race. Behind the middle-of-the-road and genteel middle-class surroundings lies a sharp social commentary and well-crafted characters. It ran on the BBC until 1978, although it is still"
"Tom Barnaby Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Geoffrey ""Tom"" Barnaby (born 20 April 1943) is a fictional detective created by Caroline Graham and was one of the main characters in the ITV drama ""Midsomer Murders"". Tom Barnaby (played by John Nettles) first appears in the programme's first episode ""The Killings at Badger's Drift"" and last appears in ""Fit for Murder"", an episode broadcast on 2 February 2011, which is the final episode of the thirteenth series. He states in an episode called ""Picture of Innocence"" that his birthday is 20 April 1943. He is married to Joyce Barnaby, played by Jane"
"Myrtle (Hillary Bamberger), who has an occasional fling with Eddie. In the final two series, Ada and Alf have an empty nest, move away from Sycamore Street, and run a café, employing Hetty (no mention is made of her husband or daughter). They have a lodger named Major Osbert Rigby-Soames (Hugh Paddick), who always tries to avoid paying his rent. ""The Larkins"" was adapted into a gag-a-day comic in 1960 by Dutch comics artist Alfred Mazure, published in the Sunday Graphic. The series was adapted into a film, ""Inn For Trouble (1960)"" by C.M. Pennington-Richards. Unlike many other British sitcoms"
"she was bullied at school for having no sense of humour. A social climber, staunchly Conservative and unafraid to challenge anyone who gets on her nerves, Margo nevertheless reveals a heart of gold. She involves herself with organisations such as the Pony Club and the Music Society, always wishing to play the lead role. Margo is occasionally made aware of her faults by others, including her husband, and is not too proud to apologise. Andrew, ""Andy"" or ""Sir"", is managing director of JJM. He feigns ignorance of Tom's existence (""Mr Ummm of the Fourth Floor""), but once Tom leaves, Andy"
"win the 1976 Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance for the play ""Donkeys' Years"". She became a household name in the UK playing Margo Leadbetter in the sitcom ""The Good Life"" (1975–78), winning the 1977 BAFTA TV Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance. In 1978, she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for ""The Norman Conquests"". She then starred as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton in the sitcom ""To the Manor Born"" (1979–81), a show that received audiences of more than 20 million. She went on to star in another six sitcoms, including ""Executive Stress"" (1986–88), ""No Job for a Lady"""
"show. ABC brought it back on a weekly basis in 1970, in ""Make Room for Granddaddy"". For the series premiere, Sherry Jackson reprised her role of oldest daughter Terry. No mention was made of her husband Pat Hannigan. Instead, for this new version of the series, Terry's husband was named Bill, who was a soldier. In this episode, Terry left her son, six-year-old Michael (played by Michael Hughes), in the care of grandparents Danny and Kathy so she could join Bill, who was stationed overseas. In addition to Lord, Hamer and Cartwright, the only other returning regulars were Sid Melton"
"Robin Redbreast (TV play) Robin Redbreast is a ""Play for Today"" (BBC) about pagan rural customs and their interaction with modern society, transmitted on 10 December 1970 on BBC1. It was directed by James MacTaggart. After she's dumped by her boyfriend, BBC script editor Norah Palmer (Anna Cropper) leaves her friends Jake (Julian Holloway) and Madge (Amanda Walker) in London and moves to the house that she'd bought with her boyfriend in the countryside in Southern England. Norah finds the village people strange but endearing, notably Mrs. Vigo (Freda Bamford), a busybody housekeeper; Mr. Fisher (Bernard Hepton), a historian; Mr."
"of British sitcom. Well-remembered series include John Cleese and Connie Booth's farcical ""Fawlty Towers"" (1975, 1979), John Esmonde and Bob Larbey's self-sufficiency comedy ""The Good Life"" (1975–78). ""Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?"" (1973–74), a sequel to the earlier show, surpassed the original, while the same writers (Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais) provided Ronnie Barker with his most successful sitcom vehicle, ""Porridge"" (1974–77). Barker also starred (along with David Jason) in the very popular ""Open All Hours"" (1973, 1976–85), written by Roy Clarke. Clarke's long-running ""Last of the Summer Wine"" began in 1973 and ended in 2010, becoming the"
"of the Big Spenders (8 December 1969) 12: Prime of Life (15 December 1969) 13: Festive Spirit (22 December 1969) 14: Shake Up (21 December 1970) 15: Rats (28 December 1970) 16: Safe Breakers (4 January 1971) 17: Wives (11 January 1971) 18: Love (18 January 1971) 19: Contest (25 January 1971) Mr. Digby Darling Mr. Digby Darling is a British television sitcom made by Yorkshire Television and broadcast by ITV between 1969 and 1971, and starring Sheila Hancock and Peter Jones which ran for 3 series and 19 episodes. The story centred on a fictional pest control business 'Rid-O-Rat'."
"Badger (TV series) Badger is a British television police procedural drama series, broadcast between 11 July 1999 and 1 September 2000. Produced by Feelgood Films, and broadcast on BBC One, a total of thirteen episodes were broadcast over the course of two series. The series stars Jerome Flynn as lead character Tom McCabe, a police wildlife liaison officer, who is tasked with fighting wildlife crime in his home county of Northumberland. The series was created by ""Ballykissangel"" creator Kieran Prendiville, and the character of McCabe was based upon a close associate of Prendiville, Paul Henery, who was himself a police"
"Could See Us Now"". While their characters were less significant, well-known actors who played cameos in the programme included Joan Sims, best known for her numerous roles in the ""Carry On"" films, who guest-starred in the feature-length episode ""The Frog's Legacy"" as an aunt of Trigger and old friend of Del's late mother; Hollywood star David Thewlis, who played a young wannabe musician in ""It's Only Rock and Roll""; John Bardon, who played the role of Jim Branning in the soap opera ""EastEnders"", as the supermarket security officer in ""The Longest Night"". Walter Sparrow, who appeared as Dirty Barry in"
"medical secretary. Tom’s best friend Dick Moran (Steve Franken), also an intern, moved in to share the expenses, but often became an irritant to the newlyweds as he ""played the field"" in the world of romance. Tom, Dick, and Mary Tom, Dick and Mary is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from October 5, 1964 until January 4, 1965. It was one of three separate comedies set in the same Southern California apartment complex and broadcast under the collective title ""90 Bristol Court"". The 90-minute block aired Monday nights and consisted of ""Karen"", (7:30-8:00pm), ""Harris Against the World"" (8:00-8:30pm),"
"Mr. Digby Darling Mr. Digby Darling is a British television sitcom made by Yorkshire Television and broadcast by ITV between 1969 and 1971, and starring Sheila Hancock and Peter Jones which ran for 3 series and 19 episodes. The story centred on a fictional pest control business 'Rid-O-Rat'. Roland Digby (Peter Jones) is the assistant public relations officer who depends entirely on his secretary Thelma Teesdale (Sheila Hancock) to provide for his every need. This includes mending his clothes, cooking his meals, and generally covering up for his many failings at every opportunity. Comedienne and impressionist Janet Brown featured in"
"Bob Larbey, Briers was cast in the lead role in ""The Good Life"" (1975–78), playing Tom Good, a draughtsman who decides, on his 40th birthday, to give up his job and try his hand at self-sufficiency, with the support of his wife Barbara, played by Felicity Kendal. Briers persuaded the producers to cast his friend Paul Eddington, a fellow council member of Equity, in the role of Jerry. An enormously successful series, the last episode in 1978 was performed in front of Queen Elizabeth II. In 1977, he starred with his ""The Good Life"" co-star Penelope Keith in the televised"
"Citizen James Citizen James is a BBC sitcom that ran for three series between 24 November 1960 and 23 November 1962. The show featured comedian and actor Sid James and Sydney Tafler with Bill Kerr and Liz Fraser appearing in early episodes. It was initially written by the comedy writing team of Galton and Simpson, who based the characters very much on the ""Sidney Balmoral James"" and ""Bill Kerr, the dim-witted Australian"" roles that they had played in ""Hancock's Half Hour"". The first series was set around 'Charlie's Nosh Bar', a cafe in Soho, and centred on Sid's get-rich-quick schemes."
"Beggar My Neighbour (TV series) Beggar My Neighbour is a British sitcom starring Reg Varney, Peter Jones, June Whitfield, Pat Coombs and (later) Desmond Walter-Ellis. Made in black-and-white, it was broadcast from 1966 to 1968 and was written by Ken Hoare and Mike Sharland. Rose Garvey, and her husband Gerald, live next door to her sister Lana Butt, and her husband Harry, in Larkworthy Road in Muswell Hill in North London. Gerald is an underpaid junior executive, while Harry is a well-paid fitter. The slightly snobbish Gerald makes sure that he and Rose keep up a pretence of doing well"
"of ""The Benny Hill Show"". Although he was an actor all his adult life, it was not until Eddington was in his late forties that he became a household name. This happened thanks to ""The Good Life"", first screened by the BBC in 1975. The sitcom focuses on a suburban couple who decide to give up work and become self-sufficient in their suburban garden. Eddington was cast as Jerry Leadbetter, a neighbour of the main characters, and Penelope Keith played his wife, Margo. Originally intended as bit parts, the Leadbetters quickly became essential foils for the two ""stars"". Eddington's fame"
"controlled by the weather machine in the cottage. The Gorps live on a nearby asteroid known as 'Gorpdale' which is dark and wet. The principal characters are Lizzie; Lizzie's husband Sam; their son, Tom; Dinko, a dog; Daisy, the big moo and blue chickens called Clucks; featuring the Gorps, Splodger and Biff, 2 miscreants who steal food and cause trouble at the farm. In the United Kingdom, the entire TV series was first published on VHS tapes on 1992, released by Pickwick and distributed by Carlton Home Entertainment in 1995. Astro Farm Astro Farm is a British children's television series"