This half-hour comedy series from the BBC Light Programme aired on Thursday nights in the spring and summer of 1961 and starred Sid James and Dennis Price as business partners and property dealers.
They were often joined by June Whitfield, Wallas Eaton and Carole Shelky. The show was written by comedy stalwarts Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe.
Dennis Price died of heart failure in 1973 at the age of 58. Sid James also had a heart attack, collapsing on stage at the Sunderland Empire Theatre in April 1976. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Sunderland General Hospital. He was 62.
June Whitfield died in London on 29 December 2018, aged 93.
Sidney James
Dennis Price
June Whitfield
Wallas Eaton
Carole Shelky
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