Yanks Go Home

1 9 7 6 (UK)
13 x 30 minute episodes

This comedy, set at an American air force base in Lancashire during the Second World War, made light of the curious, often strained relationship between American servicemen (“overpaid, overfed, oversexed and over here”) and the English townsfolk and villagers around whom they were billeted.

Set in the north-west town of Warrington – where the cigar-chomping US Air Force troops are handing out stockings, chocolate and chewing gum to the local lassies and putting themselves about a bit – the series offered nothing more than cheap stereotypes, but nobody seemed to care enough to complain.

Local girl Doreen Sankey (Catherine Neilson) made particular friendships with the troops, having a relationship with Private Tutt (Jay Benedict) that, in the final episode, led to the altar.

Each episode had a different writer, so the characterisations were somewhat inconsistent, and the obvious canned laughter did not help either.

Phoebe Sankey
Meg Johnson 
Sgt. Gus Pulaski 
Bruce Boa 
Cpl. Vince Rossi 
Stuart Damon
Doreen Sankey 
Catherine Neilson
Harry Duckworth 
David Ross
Bert Pickup 
Harry Markham
Cpl. Pasquale 
Freddie Earlle 
Col. Ralph Kruger 
Alan MacNaughton
Col. Irving 
Lionel Murton
Leonard Chambers 
Norman Bird
Pfc. Burford Puckett 
Richard Oldfield
Pvt. Floyd Tutt 
Jay Benedict

Episodes

Series 1
Somewhere in England | Off Limits | Dear John | Open Day | Brooklyn’s Uncle | Rossi Keeps His Cool | The Liaison Committee

Series 2
Cooke-Cooke | The Name of the Game | Bed of Roses | Alarm and Despondency | Some of our Coal is Missing | The First of the GI Brides

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