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    Comedy Drama TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

    Beryl’s Lot

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    Beryl Humphries (Carmel McSharry) was the wife of Battersea milkman, Tom (Mark Kingston). She worked as a charlady and seemed content with her lot. Until, that is, her 40th birthday loomed large.

    As her fortieth birthday approaches, Beryl realises that there must be more to life than running the family home in West London, being a mother of three (Rosie, Jack and Babs), and milkman’s wife, and decides to improve her ‘lot’, enrolling for philosophy evening classes and otherwise breaking her conventions.

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    Trev and Vi Tonks (played by Tony Caunter and Barbara Mitchell respectively) were the Humphries’ next-door neighbours.

    Beryl and Tom had a lodger called Fred (Robin Askwith) who worked for local bookmaker Wacky Waters and ended up marrying their daughter Rosie (Verna Harvey) at the end of the second series.

    Blending comedy with drama, the series from Yorkshire Television was inspired by the life of cook Margaret Powell – who, in her sixties, was transformed, seemingly overnight, from household servant to best-selling author and explosively giggly celebrity – and she served as script consultant during the first series.

    The main writer, Kevin Laffan, created the rural soap Emmerdale Farm in 1972.

    Beryl Humphries 
    Carmel McSharry
    Tom Humphries 

    Mark Kingston (1)
    George Selway (2)
    Vi Tonks 

    Barbara Mitchell
    Trev Tonks 

    Tony Caunter
    Horace Harris 

    Robert Keegan
    Wully Harris 

    Annie Leake
    Fred Pickering 

    Robin Askwith
    Freda 

    Queenie Watts
    Charlie Mills 

    Norman Mitchell
    Rosie Humphries 

    Verna Harvey
    Jack Humphries 

    Brian Capron
    Babs Humphries 

    Anita Carey

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