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    TV Shows - 1970s TV Shows - 1980s 2 Mins Read

    Rosie/Growing Pains of PC Penrose, The

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    First broadcast as The Growing Pains of PC Penrose, this whimsical sitcom (by whimsical sitcom maestro Roy Clarke) focused on the mishaps of naive probationary constable Michael Penrose (Paul Greenwood) – nicknamed Rosie, much to his embarrassment.

    The setting was (largely) the North Yorkshire town of Raven’s Bay – a fictitious name derived by coupling the names Ravenscar and Robin Hood’s Bay, two seaside villages near Scarborough where the series was filmed.

    Here, Rosie was dominated by his mother Millie (Avril Elgar and then Patricia Kneale), her sister Aunt Ida (Lorraine Peters), and girlfriend Gillian (Frankie Jordan).

    Headstrong and slovenly police partner PC Wilmot (Tony Haygarth) was his male companion.

    Actor Paul Greenwood co-wrote and sang the theme song.

    PC Michael ‘Rosie’ Penrose
    Paul Greenwood
    Sgt Flagg
    Bryan Pringle
    PC Wilmot
    Tony Haygarth
    Millie Penrose
    Avril Elgar (1)
    Patricia Kneale (2)
    Auntie Ida
    Lorraine Peters
    Gillian Chiselhurst
    Frankie Jordan
    Uncle Norman
    Allan Surtees
    WPC Brenda Whatmough
    Penny Leatherbarrow
    Merv
    Robert Gillespie
    Chief Inspector Dunwoody
    Paul Luty
    Liz
    Geraldine Gardner
    Big Cyril
    Dudley Jones
    Renata
    Janet Dale

    Episodes

    Woman Pressure | A Smile from Antonio | I Wish They Wouldn’t Call Me Son | Sunday | Wholesale Fish | The Cheese and Wine | Mirror, Mirror on the Floor | Wilmot Gets a Bad Case of Big Cyril’s Second Wife | Wilmot and an Even Worse Case of Big Cyril’s Second Wife | The Eyes of the Law | Complications | Further Complications | Our Intrepid Birdmen | Those Wonderful People in the C.I.D. | Free Sample | The Worm That Turns Us All | Happy Birthday, Mr Chiselhurst | Looking for Herbie | Turn Left at the Parrot | A Day in the Country | Tune on a Silent Dog Whistle | Arresting Gordon by Instalments | You’re Beautiful Miss Parkinson | The Eight Foot Goat | Big Night at Freezi-Pops | An Informer for Engelbert | Caught in the Act

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