Tag: Roy Clarke
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Roy Clarke’s Fantasy Sci Fi Epic
Keeping Up Appearances was on at the end of every year for its first four series, then it took a whole year off before Hyacinth returned for the final series. Also strangely absent from BBC screens in 1994 was the perenniel presence of Last Of The Summer Wine. Why the gap? Did Roy take some…
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Don’t Tell Father
It’s not often that a Roy Clarke series passes me by, but one did. Don’t Tell Father, starring Tony Britton, Caroline Quentin and Susan Hampshire ran for six episodes on BBC One in the spring of 1992. Not to be confused with the ITV sitcom of the same name from 1959, this short-lived Roy Clarke…
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It’s Bouquet
I should preface this with an admission that I only realised Fawlty Towers was a pun title about 18 months ago, so what follows is hardly surprising. I was watching the fourth Doctor Who serial Seeds Of Doom last night, and there’s a scene in it where he and Sarah Jane meet a botanical painter…
