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    Comedy TV Shows - 1970s 1 Min Read

    Turnbull’s Finest Half-Hour

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    1 9 7 2 (UK)
    6 x 30 minute episodes

    This situation comedy series from Yorkshire Television was set at an independent television company called Pentagon – the newest and smallest company on the network.

    The series showed what happens when a newspaper baron with a large number of shares in the company appoints an ex-army grocer as Head of Variety, who proceeds to run his department along military lines.

    Written by Ken Hoare and Mike Sharland, Turnbull’s Finest Half-Hour featured Michael Bates as Major Turnbull (Royal Engineers, Ret’d), Blake Butler, Liz Fraser (wife of the series’ director and producer Bill Hitchcock), Jonathan Lynn, Roddy Maude-Roxby, Leonard Trolley, and Raymond Huntley as the “where there’s muck there’s brass” newspaper baron, Sir Zachary Stein.

    The six-part series debuted on Friday 10 November 1972.

    Major Clifford Turnbull (Royal Engineers, Ret’d)
    Michael Bates
    Bernard Pratt
    Blake Butler
    Faye Bush
    Liz Fraser
    Charlie
    Alan Helm
    Roddy Cheever-Jones
    Jonathan Lynn
    Rex Rivoli
    Roddy Maude-Roxby
    Jellico Withers
    Leonard Trolley
    Sir Zachary Stein
    Raymond Huntley

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