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    1970s Television Comedy Shows I 2 Mins Read

    It’s Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling

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    Samantha, Virginia, Clover and Gillian (known as ‘Pudding’ because of her love of food) were four posh girls sharing a flat (and each other’s underwear) in London in a kind of upmarket version of The Liver Birds.

    Each week, the girls encountered problems such as a lack of money for rent, boyfriends, nosey parents, and internal conflict.

    Jeremy Lloyd – then married to star Joanna Lumley – appeared in several episodes as the toffee-nosed swinger Bobby Dutton.

    Anna Palk played the role of Virginia Watter in the pilot episode but was then replaced by Jennifer Croxton.

    It’s Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling – written by Christopher Bond and Jilly Cooper – was another series that began life as a one-off episode of Comedy Playhouse.

    Critics were not kind to the show, comparing it unfavourably to The Liver Birds and Take Three Girls.

    Samantha Ryder-Ross
    Joanna Lumley
    Gillian ‘Pudding’ Page-Wood 
    Jane Carr
    Clover Mason
    Elizabeth Knight
    Virginia Watter
    Anna Palk (1)
    Jennifer Croxton (2)
    Bobby Dutton
    Jeremy Lloyd

    Episodes

    Pilot | A New Lease | Sweet Sunday | The Flat to Ourselves | The Man Who Came to Dinner | Forsaking All Others | The Making of Pudding

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