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  • 1970-04-24T23:00:00Z on ITV1
  • 30m
  • 3h 30m (7 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • Comedy
Albert Courtnay, a well-meaning 24 year old has moved from his Northern home and family to the bright lights of London. He finds his new life slightly bewildering but, when he writes his regular letters to his mother, he embellishes his daily routine and finds it difficult to divorce fact from fiction.

7 episodes

Season Premiere

1970-04-24T23:00:00Z

2x01 Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing

Season Premiere

2x01 Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing

  • 1970-04-24T23:00:00Z30m

Albert's in love and in his letter to his mother he describes her as a very ordinary, down-to-earth girl - but in reality she is quite the opposite ...

1970-05-01T23:00:00Z

2x02 All The World's A Stage

2x02 All The World's A Stage

  • 1970-05-01T23:00:00Z30m

Suddenly he's an actor! - Albert has been chosen for a role in the Tomlinson Toffee Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society's annual play. He tells his mother that they are begging him to take the leading role ...

1970-05-08T23:00:00Z

2x03 Hearts And Flowers

2x03 Hearts And Flowers

  • 1970-05-08T23:00:00Z30m

At the peak of his fitness, Albert has been picked for his firm's first eleven football team - but the results of an X-ray may spoil his plans ...

1970-05-15T23:00:00Z

2x04 The Delegate

2x04 The Delegate

  • 1970-05-15T23:00:00Z30m

After seeing a film about an older woman seducing a younger man, Albert is dubious about it ever happening in real life - but events are about to make him think again ...

1970-05-22T23:00:00Z

2x05 I'm Going To Be A Father

2x05 I'm Going To Be A Father

  • 1970-05-22T23:00:00Z30m

Albert has a shock in store for his mother in his next letter as he asks her to start knitting little white things, like booties! He is prepared to do the right thing ...

1970-05-29T23:00:00Z

2x06 Major Ab Adversis

2x06 Major Ab Adversis

  • 1970-05-29T23:00:00Z30m

The firm's motto is Major Ab Adversis - Strong in Adversity and Albert's boss professes to be married to the firm. Albert, on the other hand, wants a divorce ...

1970-06-05T23:00:00Z

2x07 All Mod Cons

2x07 All Mod Cons

  • 1970-06-05T23:00:00Z30m

In his letter to his mother, Albert claims to have taken the pledge. At a recent wedding he never touched a drop and all the others were really drunk, but not him!

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