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  • 1969-04-17T23:00:00Z
  • 30m
  • 3h (6 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • Comedy
Writers Galton and Simpson were wooed across to ITV by LWT's Head of Entertainment Frank Muir and charged with providing six individual playlets in the style they had utilised as sole writers for the first two series of the BBC's Comedy Play house.

6 episodes

Series Premiere

1969-04-17T23:00:00Z

1x01 The Suit

Series Premiere

1x01 The Suit

  • 1969-04-17T23:00:00Z30m

Leslie Phillips starred in this playlet, trying to keep from his wife the details of an akward burglary at his lover's flat.

1969-04-24T23:00:00Z

1x02 Friends in High Places

1x02 Friends in High Places

  • 1969-04-24T23:00:00Z30m

Bob Monkhouse starred as George Gosling, fat, bald and unhappy at the age of 55, whose wish to be young again is granted.

1969-05-01T23:00:00Z

1x03 Never Talk to Strangers

1x03 Never Talk to Strangers

  • 1969-05-01T23:00:00Z30m

Harry H. Corbett and Rosemary Leach are paired as two lonely people who see in each other the chance of finally securing happiness.

1x04 Don't Dilly Dally on the Way

  • 1969-05-08T23:00:00Z30m

Jimmy Edwards and Pat Coombs in a fine domestic comedy drama where he's ready to move from their tiny bungalow, which they've lived in for 23 years, but she isn't.

1x05 Pity Poor Edie ... Married to Him

  • 1969-05-15T23:00:00Z30m

Milo O'Shea and Gwendolyn Watts star as a married couple, with the woman being the breadwinner.

1x06 An Extra Bunch of Daffodils

  • 1969-05-22T23:00:00Z30m

Softly Softly heavyweight Stratford Johns stars in a Hancockesque role where he plays a murderer who has killed his five wives in turn, each time reaping the rewards of their life insurance policies. He has now got his sights set on his next victim, a widower called Mrs Evans played convincingly by Patsy Rowlands.

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