Beggar My Neighbour - BBC1 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Beggar My Neighbour. Image shows from L to R: Harry Butt (Reg Varney), Lana Butt (Pat Coombs). Copyright: BBC

Genre

Sitcom

Broadcast

1966 - 1968

Channel

BBC 1

Episodes

23 (1 pilot + 3 series), plus 1 short special

Stars

Reg Varney, Pat Coombs, June Whitfield, Peter Jones and Desmond Walter Ellis

Writers

Ken Hoare and Mike Sharland

Director

David Croft

Producers

David Croft and Eric Fawcett

Company

Rose and Lana are sisters, both married and living next door to each other in Lankworthy Road, Muswell Hill - a London suburb. Gerald Garvey is an underpaid, middle-class executive who has a snobbish attitude, but he and Rose don't have the income to back it up. Harry Butt, on the other hand, is an affluent, working-class fitter, and he and Lana never miss the chance to show off their luxury goods and lifestyle in front of their poorer relatives.

Additional details

Part of

Comedy Playhouse

Production

Studio

Camera set-up

Multi-camera

Picture

Black and white

Broadcast details

First broadcast

Tuesday 24th May 1966 at 7:30pm on BBC One