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    Comedy TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

    Fuzz, The

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    This short-lived police comedy series from Thames Television was set in an unidentified provincial Northern town “somewhere north of Watford” and featured ex-On The Buses star Michael Robbins as Detective Sergeant Sidney Marble, a keen small town copper with his sights set on promotion to Scotland Yard and the Flying Squad.

    Episodes centred around the goings-on at the cop shop and Marble’s domestic difficulties with his traffic warden wife.

    Marble’s ambitions were thwarted at every step by the gormless uniformed policemen who worked under him – PC Stevie Cordwainer (Nigel Lambert) and PC Jumbo Dickinson (Mike Savage) – who had no ambitions whatsoever, and were content to play Monopoly in the back of the dog handler’s van, or Battleship over the police radio, or I-Spy in their parked crime car.

    Colin Jeavons played the superintendent who suffered from Marble’s crass bunglings, while glamour was added by Lynda Bellingham as WPC “Purrfect” Purvis.

    The series debuted on Thursday 8 September 1977 with an episode that featured the team on the hunt for a knicker-nicker.

    The Fuzz – created and written by Willis Hall – was one of the better comedy half-hours of the moment. The basic set-up of the two coppers and their sergeant was contained in an episode of The Crezz.

    Det. Sgt. Sidney Marble
    Michael Robbins
    PC Stevie Cordwainer
    Nigel Lambert
    PC Jumbo Dickinson
    Mike Savage
    WPC Pamela ‘Purrfect’ Purvis
    Lynda Bellingham
    Supt. Baldwyn Allardyce
    Colin Jeavons
    Doris
    Ena Cabayo
    Sgt. Mapplewhite
    John Judd

    Episodes

    Lonely Are the Brave | A Grand Old Team to Play For | Pending Further Enquiries | Domestic Incident | Night Duties | Coppers Under the Sun | Exits and Entrances

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