George & Mildred - ITV1 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

George & Mildred. Image shows from L to R: Mildred Roper (Yootha Joyce), George Roper (Brian Murphy). Copyright: Thames Television

Genre

Sitcom

Broadcast

1976 - 1979

Channel

ITV

Episodes

38 (5 series)

Stars

Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce, Norman Eshley, Sheila Fearn and Nicholas Bond-Owen

Writers

Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke

Director

Peter Frazer-Jones

Producer

Peter Frazer-Jones

Company

George and Mildred Roper are somewhat of an odd couple: he would be working-class if he wasn't too lazy and feckless to actually, well, work; and she's an accomplished snob.

Moving from their run-down old South Kensington home, they buy a property in the leafy London suburb of Hampton Wick, next door to the resolutely middle-class Fourmiles. Mildred is in her element playing up to their well-spoken neighbours and quickly makes friends with wife and mum Ann, but George is less than impressed or enthusiastic by their changed status, and particularly unamused by Tory-voting Jeffrey Fourmile!

Scrimping, saving and trying to get out of anything resembling effort or thought at every point, George's happiness with a less salubrious way of life proves a constant source of irritation to Mildred, ensuring frequent rows over even the smallest of things.

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Studio

Camera set-up

Multi-camera

Picture

Colour

Broadcast details

First broadcast

Monday 6th September 1976 at 8pm on ITV1

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