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Meet the Wife

Meet the Wife

Description: Meet the Wife is a 1960s BBC situation comedy written by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe, which featured Freddie Frinton as Freddie Blacklock with Thora Hird as his tyrannical wife, Thora. It ran for five series. The series was based on a 1963 BBC television Comedy Playhouse production, "The Bed". Wikipedia
Genre: Comedy
Year Released: 1963
Number of seasons: 5
Number of episodes: 39
First episode air date: December 28, 1963
Network: BBC One
Program Creator: Chesney and Wolfe
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Paul Merton in Galton and Simpson's...

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Plot: Paul Merton in Galton and Simpson's... is a British comedy television show that ran from 26 January 1996 to 21 October 1997. It stars Paul Merton, re-performing a number of classic comedy scripts written by the duo Galton and Simpson, including some originally written for Tony Hancock. Wikipedia
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An Age of Kings

An Age of Kings
Plot: An Age of Kings is a fifteen-part serial adaptation of the eight sequential history plays of William Shakespeare, produced by the BBC in 1960. At the time, the show was the most ambitious Shakespearean television adaptation ever made, and was a critical and commercial success in both the UK and the...
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Gideon's Way

Gideon's Way
Plot: Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment and broadcast by ITV in 1964–1966, based on novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree Studios in twin production with The Saint television series, which was likewise produced by Robert S. Baker...
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Take a Letter, Mr. Jones

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Plot: A top business executive battles the sexual politics of big business and the general ineptness of her staff.
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An Englishman's Castle

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Plot: An Englishman's Castle is a BBC television serial first broadcast in 1978, written by Philip Mackie and directed by Paul Ciappessoni. The story was set in an alternative history 1970s, in which Nazi Germany won World War II and England is run by a collaborationist fascist government. Wikipedia
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The Cleopatras

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Plot: The Cleopatras was a 1983 BBC Television eight-part historical drama serial. Written by Philip Mackie, it is set in Ancient Egypt during the latter part of the Ptolemaic Dynasty with an emphasis on the Cleopatras. Intended to be the I, Claudius of the 1980s, The Cleopatras met with a decidedly mixed...
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Don't Drink the Water

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Plot: Don't Drink the Water is a British sitcom television series produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network. The series was created by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe and is a spin-off from their long running sitcom On the Buses. Wikipedia
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Seven of One

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Plot: 1970s series of one-off character comedies based around the versatile talent of Ronnie Barker.

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Pathfinders to Mars

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The Liver Birds

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Plot: Seventies sitcom featuring the antics of two Liverpudlian lasses.
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Up Pompeii!

Up Pompeii!
Plot: A slave tries to do the bidding of his master and his family.
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The Bed-Sit Girl

The Bed-Sit Girl
Plot: The Bed-Sit Girl is a British television sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1965 to 1966. Created by Chesney and Wolfe for Sheila Hancock, The Bed-Sit Girl aired for two series. Hancock played Sheila Ross, a typist who lives in a bedsit and wishes for more in life. Wikipedia

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That's Your Funeral

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Plot: That's Your Funeral was a BBC sitcom from 1971 about a North of England funeral director called Basil Bulstrode. Storylines used many urban legends about the funeral industry. It was cancelled after one series. A very similar theme was used far more successfully in the ITV sitcom In Loving Memory....
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Comedy Playhouse

Comedy Playhouse
Plot: Long-running anthology series of one-off sitcoms, many of which launched other classic comedy series.

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Pathfinders to Venus

Pathfinders to Venus
Plot: Returning from their unexpected trip to Mars the crew of MR4 intercept a distress signal from Captain Wilson, a U.S astronaut, and must change course for Venus to attempt a rescue in space. However, through the space periscope, Brown sees what appears to be a settlement or a city of some sort. Desperate...
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Undermind

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Plot: Undermind is a science fiction television drama produced by ABC Weekend Television in 1965. It ran for eleven episodes of sixty minutes each. It starred Jeremy Wilkin, Rosemary Nicols and Denis Quilley. Wikipedia
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The Strange World of Gurney Slade

The Strange World of Gurney Slade
Plot: The Strange World of Gurney Slade is a surreal six-part British television comedy series devised by Anthony Newley and made by ATV, first transmitted by the ITV network between 22 October and 26 November 1960. Wikipedia
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Christmas Night with the Stars

Christmas Night with the Stars
Plot: Christmas Night with the Stars was a television show broadcast each Christmas night by the BBC from 1958 to 1972. The show was hosted each year by a leading star of BBC TV and featured specially made short seasonal editions of the previous year's most popular BBC sitcoms and light entertainment programs...
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Six Dates With Barker

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Plot: Six Dates with Barker is a series of six one-off, half-hour situation comedies showcasing the talents of Ronnie Barker. All were broadcast by London Weekend Television early in 1971. Writers on the series included John Cleese and Spike Milligan. The producer was Humphrey Barclay. Wikipedia
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Wild, Wild Women

Wild, Wild Women
Plot: Wild, Wild Women is a British television sitcom that aired on BBC from 1968 to 1969. Shot in black-and-white, it starred Barbara Windsor and was written by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney. Wikipedia
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The Rag Trade (1961)

The Rag Trade (1961)
Plot: The Rag Trade is a British television sitcom broadcast by the BBC between 1961 and 1963 and by LWT between 1977 and 1978. The scripts were by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, who later wrote Wild, Wild Women, Meet the Wife and On the Buses. Wild, Wild Women was a period variation of The Rag Trade....
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Me Mammy

Me Mammy
Plot: Me Mammy is a British sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1968 to 1971. Starring Milo O'Shea, it was written by Hugh Leonard. Wikipedia
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