Cheap At Half The Price - ITV1 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Genre

Sitcom

Broadcast

1972

Channel

ITV

Episodes

1 Pilot

Stars

Roy Kinnear, Doug Fisher, Joan Peart, Paul Haley, Marjie Lawrence and Raymond Mason

Writers

Vince Powell and Harry Driver

Director

Les Chatfield

Producer

Les Chatfield

Company

Jimmy Wilcox is a budding antiques dealer and the proprietor of the Treasure House in London's Chelsea. Whilst he thinks of himself as a philosopher and raconteur, he is also the unfortunate employer of Charlie, a dim-witted assistant. A dutiful husband to Madge, his long-suffering wife, he is doomed to fail thanks to his own magnificent incompetence.

Additional details

Production

Studio

Picture

Colour

Broadcast details

First broadcast

Monday 22nd May 1972 at 8:30pm on ITV1

Episode length

25 minutes