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    Comedy TV Shows - 1970s 4 Mins Read

    George And Mildred

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    Having just finished six series’ ofΒ Man About The HouseΒ the ultra-prolific writers Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke created two concurrent spin-offs:Β Robin’s NestΒ (six more series’) andΒ George And MildredΒ (five).

    This latter one was the more acclaimed of the two, featuring the former landlord and landlady fromΒ Man About The HouseΒ now moved up-market into a new home at 46 Peacock Crescent, Hampton Wick, suburbia.

    For Mildred (Yootha Joyce) it is her long-awaited climb up the class structure – she calls it a ‘town house’.

    For George (Brian Murphy) – lazy, mostly unemployed (he does work for a short while as a traffic warden) and aggressively determined to preserve his working-classness – it is a terraced house.

    The comedy centred on three main issues: the couple’s hopeless 25-year marriage in general, Mildred’s sexual frustrations in particular (George has given up on sex completely and contrives any excuse to avoid it) and the class struggle.

    This last problem is exacerbated by the posh family next door, the Fourmiles – wife Ann (Sheila Fearn), husband Jeffrey (Norman Eshley) and their brat child, Tristram (Nicholas Bond-Owen) – who are befriended by Mildred but loathed by George.

    Sheila Fearn commented at the time; “At long last, I’m middle class. I’ve been 12 years doing Northern sluts and kitchen sink drudges. It’s really progress – by the time I’m 40 I might get a few well-heeled, wealthy upper-crust parts!”

    Also appearing occasionally were Mildred’s sister Ethel (Avril Elgar) and her husband, Humphrey (Reginald Marsh), and George’s partner-in-crime – and mastermind of several “get-poor-quick schemes – Jerry (Roy Kinnear).

    Mortimer and Cooke also wrote aΒ George And MildredΒ stage production, which played at the Pier Theatre in Bournemouth in the 1977 summer season, with both Brian Murphy and Yootha Joyce appearing.

    The TV programme ended only withΒ Yootha Joyce’sΒ sudden death of liver failure four days after her 53rd birthday in 1980.Β Brian Murphy was at her bedside.

    Without question,Β George And MildredΒ was, for the most part, a funny sitcom, but once again a spin-off feature film (1980, same stars and director, written by Dick Sharples) was largely an embarrassment.

    An American TV version of the series was calledΒ The RopersΒ (itself spun-off fromΒ Three’s CompanyΒ – the US adaptation ofΒ Man About The House), in which Norman Fell and Audra Lindley starred as Stanley and Helen, living at 46 Peacock Drive, Chevia Hills.

    This was produced by ABC and ran for 26 episodes in 1979-80.

    george&mildred_035Mildred RoperΒ 
    Yootha Joyce
    George RoperΒ 

    Brian Murphy
    Jeffrey FourmileΒ 

    Norman Eshley
    Ann FourmileΒ 

    Sheila Fearn
    Tristram FourmileΒ 

    Nicholas Bond-Owen
    EthelΒ 

    Avril Elgar
    HumphreyΒ 

    Reginald Marsh
    JerryΒ 

    Roy Kinnear
    MotherΒ 

    Gretchen Franklin

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