The Definitive UK Sitcom List, part N-R, 576 lines, updated 1999-02-05
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The Navy Lark 
    TV version was called HMS Paradise
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Nearest And Dearest (68,69,70-,72,73,film78) ITV(Granada) 
     created by Vince Powell & Harry Driver, writers include:
     Tom Brennand & Roy Bottomley, John Stevenson, ?Donald McGill 
   Eli & Nellie Pledge, brother & sister, owners of a pickle factory
   Jimmy Jewel, Hylda Baker, Madge Hindle, Joe Gladwin, Edward Malin
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Nearly Departed was American, despite Eric Idle
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Nelson's Column (94,95) BBC Paul Mayhew-Archer
   Journalist
   John Gordon Sinclair, Sophie Thompson, Steven O'Donnell,
   Elizabeth Counsell, Camille Coduri
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The Nesbitts Are Coming (80) ITV(YTV) Dick Sharples 
   Family of itinerant petty crooks
   Maggie Jones, Clive Swift, Deirdre Costello, John Price, Christian Rodska,
   Ken Jones, Tony Melody
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Never A Cross Word (69-) ITV(LWT) Donald Churchill
   Downgraded Ronald resigns, Deirdre becomes breadwinner: battle of sexes
   Paul Daneman, Nyree Dawn Porter, Barbara Murray, Charlotte Mitchell
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Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Width (68,69,70,71,film78) ITV(Thames) 
	   Vince Powell & Harry Driver
   Tailors, Jewish&Irish.  Lots of non-PC "cultural" jokes
   John Bluthal, Joe Lynch
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Never Say Die (70) ITV(YTV) Peter Tinniswood
   Emmott Robinson Ward of Victoria Memorial Hospital, Yorkshire
   Reginald Marsh, Patrick Newell, Noel Purcell, Larry Noble, Teddy Green,
   Wilfrid Brambell, Ken Parry, Hugh Walters, Mary Healey
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Never Say Die (87) C4  Lou Wakefield [?possibly comdram]
   Naive new manager of an old people's home
   Charlie Chester, Arthur English, Irene Handl (?also Lou Wakefield)
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Never The Twain (81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,?89,90,91) ITV(Thames)
      81,82:  Johnnie Mortimer
      83: eps Brian Platt,John Kane,Vince Powell,Peter Tilbury,Dick Hills
      84: eps John Kane,Vince Powell,Dick Hills
      85: eps John Kane,Vince Powell 
      86: eps John Kane,Vince Powell 
      87: eps John Kane,Vince Powell,Johnnie Mortimer 
   2 antique dealers,adjoining shops,ex-partners,kids engaged,marry  
   Donald Sinden, Windsor Davies, Teddy Turner, Derek Deadman(82- ), 
   Maria Charles (82- ), Julia Watson(81-83), Robin Kermode(81-83)
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The New Adventures Of Lucky Jim (82) BBC  Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais 
   Not Kingsley Amis's novel, but the character transplanted to the 60s.  
   Northerner fruitlessly seeks permissive society in Swinging-60s London
   Enn Reitel
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The New Statesman (p84,85) BBC Douglas Watkinson
   Welshman elevated to the peerage
   Windsor Davies, Anna Dawson
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The New Statesman (87,89,91ny,92,x94[BBC]) ITV(Yorkshire)/SelecTV(94) 
      ny91 "Who Shot Alan B'Stard" x94[BBC] "A. B'Stard Exposed"
				    Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran
   Unscrupulous MP
   Rik Mayall, Michael Troughton, Marsha Fitzalan, Terence Alexander
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Next Of Kin (95x,96,97) BBC Jan Hetherington & Gavin Petrie 
   Couple stuck with grandchildren when their parents die
   Penelope Keith, William Gaunt, Tracie Bennett, Mark Powley, Matthew Clarke
   Ann Gosling, Jamie Lucraft
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The Nineteenth Hole (89) ITV(Central) Johnny Speight
   Secretary at golf club
   Eric Sykes
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Nice Day At The Office (94) BBC Paul Shearer & Richard Turner
   Data processing office workers 
   Timothy Spall, John Sessions, Nicola Stephenson, Anna Massey, David Haig,
   Brian Pettifer
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Nice Work wasn't really a sitcom
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Nightingales (90,93) C4(Alomo) Paul Makin
   Psycho nightwatchmen
   Robert Lindsay, David Threlfall, James Ellis
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No Appointment Necessary (77) BBC ?writer
   Hairdresser's shop
   Roy Kinnear, Josephine Tewson, Avril Angers, Robert Dorning
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No Frills (88) BBC ?writer 
   Several generations of women in a family
   Kathy Staff, Katharine Schlesinger
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No Job For A Lady (89,90,91) ITV(Thames) Alex Shearer
   Labour Lady MP
   Penelope Keith, Mark Kingston, George Baker, Paul Young, Garfield Morgan
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No Place Like Home (-84x,86ab,88) BBC Jon Watkins
   Kids keep coming back
   William Gaunt, Patricia Garwood, Marcia Warren, Michael Sharvell-Martin,
   Martin Clunes, Dee Sadler, Stephen Watson, Beverley Adams, Daniel Hill
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No Problem! (83,84,85) C4(LWT) Mustapha Matura & Farrukh Dhondy
   5 (black) adult children in Willesden, London: parents retired Jamaica
   Malcolm Frederick, Judith Jacob, Janet Kay, Sarah Lam, Victor Romero Evans
   Shope Shodeinde
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No, Honestly (74,75 or 74-) ITV(LWT) Charlotte Bingham & Terence Brady
   He's an unemployed actor, she's an author of children's books.
   Pauline Collins, John Alderton, James Berwick, Fanny Rowe, Kenneth Benda
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No - That's Me Over Here! (67-68) ITV(AR) (70) ITV(LWT)  
		 Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Barry Cryer
   Little man from suburbia, always finds disaster
   Ronnie Corbett, Rosemary Leach, Henry McGee
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Nobody Is Norman Wisdom (73) ITV(ATV) Watt Nicol & John Sichel
   Walter Mitty type with protective & possessive mother
   Norman Wisdom, Natalie Kent, Priscilla Morgan
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Nobody's Perfect (80,82) ITV(LWT) ?writer
   UK version of Maude: couple for 8 years, 2nd marriage for both
   Elaine Stritch, Richard Griffiths, Kim Braden, Moray Watson, Ruby Head
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Norman (70) ITV(ATV) Ray Cooney & John Chapman
   Over-ambitious under-talented musician leaves tax office for showbiz
   Norman Wisdom
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Not In Front Of The Children (67,68,69-,70) BBC Richard Waring
   Nuclear family - spin-off: forerunner of And Mother Makes Three
   Wendy Craig, Paul Daneman, Roberta Tovey, Hugo Keith-Johnston, 
   Jill Riddick
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Not On Your Nellie (74..75(3ser=17eps)) ITV(LWT) Tom Brennand & Roy Bottomley
   Bolton lass runs Fulham pub
   Hylda Baker, Roger Howlett, David Rayner, Roger Brierley, Alexandra Dane,
   Leo Dolan, John Barrett, Ashiq ? 
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Not With A Bang (90) ITV(LWT) Tony Millan and Mike Walling
   Only a few people left alive
   Josie Lawrence, Ronald Pickup, Mike Grady, Stephen Rea
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Now And Then (83,84) ITV(LWT) John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
   'Normal middle aged Englishman' recalls childhood via watching son
   John Alford, Bernard Holley, Marc Gilbey
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Now Look Here (71,73) BBC  Graham Chapman and Barry Cryer
   Mummy's boy, pretends to be liberal, finds himself at odds with the world.
   Ronnie Corbett, Rosemary Leach, Madge Ryan->Gillian Lind, 
   Richard O'Sullivan.
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Now, Take My Wife . . .  (71) BBC1 Charles Laurence
  (Not to be confused with later ITV(Granada) "Take My Wife")
  Domestic silliness
  Sheila Hancock, Donald Houston, Liz Edmiston (Lynne Frederick in pilot)
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N.U.T.S. was a sketch show
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Odd Man Out (77) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell 
   Woman co-inherits candy factory with effeminate half-brother she never 
   knew she had.
   John Inman, Josephine Tewson, Avril Angers, Julian Orchard,
   Peter Butterworth
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Oh Brother! (68,69,70,71) BBC David Climie & Austin Steele
   Mountacres Priory
   Derek Nimmo, Felix Aylmer, Geoffrey Hibbert, Patrick McAlinney, 
   Edward Malin
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Oh, Dr Beeching! (96,97) BBC David Croft & Richard Spendlove
   Small railway station at tiem of Beeching's cuts
   Paul Shane, Su Pollard, Jeffrey Holland, Julia Deakin, Barbara New,
   Stephen Lewis, Ivor Roberts, Perry Benson, Terry John, Lindsay Grimshaw,
   Paul Aspden, Tara Daniels
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Oh Father (73) BBC ?writer
   Oh Brother followup, Nimmo now a priest
   Derek Nimmo, Felix Aylmer, Derek Francis, Laurence Naismith,
   Pearl Hackney, David Kelly
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Oh Happy Band (80) BBC Jeremy Lloyd & David Croft
   Brass band leads fight against new airport
   Harry Worth, The Aldershot Brass Ensemble
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Oh No! It's Selwyn Froggit (74,76,77) ITV(YTV) Alan Plater
      rerun just 'Selwyn Froggitt'
   Utterly accident prone council workman
   Bill Maynard, Megs Jenkins, Ray Mort, Bill Dean, Richard Davies
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The Old Boy Network (91) ITV(SelecTV/Central) Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais
   Spy thing
   Tom Conti, John Standing, Robert Lang
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The Old Campaigner (p67,68-) BBC Michael Pertwee
  <synopsis>
  Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Cecil, Elaine Taylor
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The Olympian Way (81) BBC Tara Prem
   Health club
   Alan Lake, Lois Dane, Hugh Fraser
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On The Buses (69,70,70-,71,72,73) ITV(LWT) 
   films 76,?,? On The Buses, Mutiny On The Buses, Holiday On The Buses
	       Ronald Wolfe & Ronald Chesney
	       Later, writers include: Bob Grant, Stephen Lewis
   Bus crews
   Reg Varney, Stephen Lewis, Cicely Courtneidge->Doris Hare, 
   Michael Robbins, Bob Grant, Anna Karen  
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On The House (70,71) ITV(YTV) Sid Colin
   Building site chaos in Yorkshire
   John Junkin, Kenneth Connor, Tommy Godfrey, Peter Atard, Gordon Rollings,
   John Normington
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On The Up (90,91,92) BBC Bob Larbey
   Selfmade millionaire car hire magnate has trouble with social class
   Dennis Waterman, Joan Sims, Sam Kelly, Dora Bryan, Jenna Russell,
   Judy Buxton
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Once Upon A Time In The North (94) BBC(Philip Partridge) Tim Firth
   On redundancy, Len Tollit sets up cellphone company
   Bernard Hill, Bill Stewart, Christine Moore, Susan McArdle,
   Andrew Whyment, Bryan Pringle, Bob Mason
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One Foot In The Grave (90abx,x91,92,93x,x94,95x,x96,x97) BBC David Renwick
   It always goes wrong for retired Victor Meldrew
   Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie, Angus Deayton, Owen Brennan(93),
   Doreen Mantle, Janine Duvitski (Eric Idle: title song, bit part)
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One For The Road (95) C4 Gary Sinyor
   Idealistic young ex-timeshare salesman travels Europe with videocamera
   Alan Davies
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One-Upmanship was a sketch show
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Only Fools And Horses 
      (81x,82x,83x,85x,86x,x87,x88,89x,x90,-91xx,x92,x93,xxx96) 
      BBC John Sullivan
   Market traders
   David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Buster Merryfield(85-), Lennard 
   Pearce(-83), Gwyneth Strong, Roger Lloyd Pack
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Only When I Laugh (79,80,81,82) ITV(YTV) Eric Chappell
   A men's ward in an NHS hospital
   James Bolam, Peter Bowles, Christopher Strauli, Richard Wilson,
   Isla Blair(?81only), Derrick Branch
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Open All Hours (p73,76,81,82x,85) BBC Roy Clarke
   Corner shop in Bradford
   Ronnie Barker, David Jason, Lynda Baron, Stephanie Cole, Barbara Flynn,
   Maggie Ollerenshaw
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Operation Good Guys (-98) BBC Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis, Hugo Blick
   Spoof cop doc
   David Gillespie, Ray Burdis, Hugo Blick, Gary Beadle, John Beckett,
   Mark Burdis, Perry Benson, Roy Smiles, Kim Taylforth, Larry Broderick,
   Dominic Anciano
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The Optimist (83,84) C4 ?writer ?sitcom
   His dreams are played out in real life but never end up how they should
   Enn Reitel
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The Other 'Arf (80,81,82,84) ITV(ATV,84:Central) Terence Howard
   Cockney girl has posh MP boyfriend
   Lorraine Chase, John Standing
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The Other One (77,79) BBC John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
   ?2 guys meet on holiday, end up working for same company
   Richard Briers, Michael Gambon
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Our Dora (56) ITV(Granada) Reuben Ship
  GI's widow returns to live with married sister in England
    [Dora Bryan left after 4 episodes: see My Wife's Sister for continuation]
  Helen Christie, Martin Wyldeck, Dora Bryan
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Our House (61) ITV(ABC) Norman Hudis
   Many characters living under the same roof
   Hylda Baker, Bernard Bresslaw, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, 
   Harry Korris, Leigh Maddison, Johnny Vyvyan
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Our Man At St Mark's (63..66) ITV(AR) James Kelly, Peter Miller
   City vicar in country town
   Leslie Phillips->Donald Sinden, Francesca Annis, Ann Lawson (63), 
   Joan Hickson, Harry Fowler (64-)
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Ours Is A Nice House (69,70) ITV(LWT) Harry Littlewood
   Northcountry boarding house
   Thora Hird, Ruth Holden
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Outside Edge (94,95x,96) ITV Richard Harris
   Village cricket club
   Brenda Blethyn, Robert Daws, Josie Lawrence, Timothy Spall, Denis Lill,
   Jeremy Nicholas, Ben Daniels
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Over The Rainbow (93) ITV Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais
   "Four music business hopefuls": one of the ex-Commitments women owns pub
   Angeline Ball, Bronagh Gallagher, Eamon Morrissey, Peter Sullivan,
   Ian Targett, Roger Walker, Linda Regan
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Paradise Island (77) ITV(Thames) Michael Haley 
   Shipwrecked in the Pacific
   Bill Maynard, William Franklyn
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Pardon The Expression (66) ITV(Granada) Harry Driver & Jack Rosenthal
					episodes by various writers
   Coronation St spinoff: Mr Swindley as chain store assistant manager
   Arthur Lowe, Betty Driver, Paul Dawkins
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Paris (94) C4 Graham Linehan, Arthur Matthews
   Bohemian cafe society of 1920s Paris
   Alexei Sayle, Neil Morrissey, Liz Kettle, Allan Corduner
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Partners (81) BBC Richard Waring 
   Divorcing couple are partners in floundering bathroom-fittings firm
   Derek Waring, Millicent Martin, Elizabeth Counsell
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The Paul Squire Show (81-) ITV(ATV) ?writer [barely sitcom]
   Making of a comedy show
   Paul Squire, Bobby Knutt, Anna Dawson, Bernard Spear, Debbie Arnold
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Perfect Scoundrels (90) ITV ?writer 
   Conmen end up doing good deeds: more of a comdram really
   Peter Bowles, Bryan Murray
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A Perfect State (97) BBC Michael Aitkens
  Small fishing town declares independence
  Gwen Taylor, Rudolph Walker, Alan David, Matthew Cottle, Richard Hope, 
  Trevor Cooper, Danny Webb, Emma Amos, Jacqueline Defferary
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The Peter Principle (97) BBC Mark Burton, John O'Farrell, Dan Patterson
  A bank manager promoted well beyond his ability
  Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Stephen Moore, David Schneider, 
  Daniel Flynn, Janette Legge, Tracy Keating
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Pig In The Middle (80,81) ITV(LWT) Terence Brady & Charlotte Bingham
   Husband, wife, temptress neighbor
   Liza Goddard, Dinsdale Landen(80), Joanna Van Gyseghem, Terence Brady(81)
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The Piglet Files (90,91,92) ITV(LWT) Paul Minett & Brian Leveson
   Inept british spies (what other kind do we have?)
   Nicholas Lyndhurst, Clive Francis, Michael Percival, Serena Evans
   John Ringham
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Pilgrims Rest (97) BBC Bernard McKenna
  Dilapidated transport cafe
  Gary Olsen, Gwen Taylor, Jonathan Aris, John Arthur, Pierre Forest,
  Jay Simpson, Nina Young
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The Pink Medicine Show (78) ITV(LWT) Chris Beetles, Rob Buckman
   Spoof medical show
   Chris Beetles, Rob Buckman, Lynda Bellingham, Nickolas Grace, Peter John
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Pinkerton's Progress (83) BBC Charles McKeown
   Lyttleton Old School, second rate and run for the comfort of the staff
   Geoffrey Whitehead, Derek Farr, Eleanor Bron, Charles McKeown
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Plaza Patrol (91) ITV(YTV) Richard Lewis & Louis Robinson
   Security men in a shopping plaza
   Tommy Cannon & Bobby Ball
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Please Sir! (68,69,70,71-,?film) ITV(LWT) John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
   Inner city school
   John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Joan Sanderson, Noel Howlett
   Erik Chitty, Richard Davies, Peter Cleall, Malcolm McFee, Liz Gebhardt, 
   Penny Spencer -> Carol Hawkins, David Barry, Peter Denyer
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Poor Little Rich Girls (84) ITV(Granada) Charles Laurence
   Cousins meet after 15 years each wrongly thinking other is rich
   Maria Aitken, Jill Bennett
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Pond Life (96) C4 Candy Guard
   Dolly Pond tries to escape her dreary life 
   [animation]
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Porkpie (95,96) C4 Trix Worrell
   Porkpie (from Desmond's) wins the lottery
   Ram John Holder, Derek Griffiths
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Porridge (74,75x,x76,77,film82) BBC Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais
   Prison              pilot play "Prisoner and Escort" 73
   Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Fulton Mackay, Brian Wilde,
   Peter Vaughan, Christopher Biggins, David Jason, Ken Jones, Felix Bowness
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Potter (79,80,83,84) BBC Roy Clarke
   Retired mint factory director
   Arthur Lowe(79,80)->Robin Bailey(83,84), Harry H Corbett(80)
   John Barron, Noel Dyson, John Warner
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A Present For Dickie (69-) ITV Jimmy Grafton & Johnny Hayward
   Mother-in-law syndrome
   Dickie Henderson, Fabia Drake, June Laverick, Billy Burden, Jerry Ram,
   Dennis Ramsden
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Preston Front (95,97) BBC Tim Firth
   The lives of TA volunteers (sequel to All Quiet On the Preston Front)
   Paul Haigh, Colin Buchanan, Adrian Hood, Susan Wooldridge, Alistair McGowan,
   Tony Marshall, Kate Gartside, Caroline Gatz, Lucky Athurst, 
   David MacCreedy, Holly Grainger, Ozzie Yue, Keiran Flynn, Sam Graham
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A Prince among Men (97,98) BBC Tony Millan & Mike Walling
   Footballer and entrepreneur Tony Prince
   Chris Barrie, Francesca Hunt, Samantha Power, Susie Blake,
   Timothy Bentinck, Bryan Pringle, Cliff Parisi
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Pull The Other One (84) ITV(Central) Michael McStay
   Domestic sitcom: couple and grandma
   Michael Elphick, Susan Tracy, Lila Kaye
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Punch Drunk (93) BBC Clayton Moore
   Boxing in Glasgow
   Kenny Ireland, Diana Hardcastle, John Kazek

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Queenie's Castle (70,71,72) ITV(YTV) Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall
   Matriarch owns flats
   Diana Dors, Freddie Fletcher, Barrie Rutter, Brian Marshall, Tony Caunter,
   Lynne Perrie
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Rab C. Nesbitt (90,92,93,94x,96,97,98) BBC Ian Pattison
   Glasgow: life in the Gorbals
   Gregor Fisher, Elaine C Smith, Tony Roper, Barbara Rafferty, 
   Andrew Fairlie, John Kazek, Brian Pettifer, Iain McColl
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The Rag Trade (61,62,63:77,78) BBC(60s),ITV(LWT)(70s) 
			       Ronald Wolfe, Ronald Chesney
   Clothing manufacturers
   60s(BBC) Reg Varney, Sheila Hancock, Peter Jones, Miriam Karlin, 
	    Esma Cannon
   70s(ITV) Peter Jones, Miriam Karlin, Christopher Beeny, Anna Karen,
	    Diane Langton, Rachel Davies
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Red Dwarf (88a)      BBC(BBC NorthWest     ) Rob Grant & Doug Naylor
	  (88b,89)   BBC(Paul Jackson Prod.) Rob Grant & Doug Naylor
	  (91,92,93) BBC(GrantNaylor       ) Rob Grant & Doug Naylor
	  (97)       BBC(GrantNaylor       ) Doug Naylor
   Space spoof (no I'm not putting in Red Dwarf II etc as separate)
   Chris Barrie, Danny John-Jules, Craig Charles, Robert Llewellyn(89-)
   Norman Lovett(88ab), Hattie Hayridge(89-)
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The Refuge (87) C4  Sue Townsend
   <synopsis>
   Caroline Blakiston, Julia Hills, Lou Wakefield
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Relative Strangers (85,87) C4(HumphreyBarclayProductions) 
			   Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran
   Carefree bachelor Fitz discovers he has a 17-year old son
				    Holding The Fort spinoff
   Matthew Kelly, Mark Farmer
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Rentaghost has been adjudged kidstuff
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Rep (82) ITV ?writer
  Struggling theatre in Northern seaside town
  Iain Cuthbertson, Patsy Rowlands, Caroline Mortimer, John Fraser, 
  Brian Carter
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The Return Of Mr Bean (91) ITV(Thames, Tiger Television) 
			   Rowan Atkinson, Richard Curtis, Robin Driscoll
   Mr Bean doesn't say much - so mostly sight gags!   
   Rowan Atkinson
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The Return Of Shelley (88) ITV(Thames) Andy Hamilton
   He returns to the dole in yuppie England from 5yrs teaching English abroad
   Hywel Bennett, Caroline Langrishe, Andrew Castell
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Rich Tea And Sympathy (91) ITV David Nobbs  [billed as comdram]
   Biscuit factory
   Patricia Hodge, Dennis Quilley, Jean Alexander, Lionel Jeffries.
   Anne Reid, Ray Lonnen, Tracie Bennett, James Warrior, Claudia Bryan, 
   Jason Flemyng, Chris Garner, Lorraine Ashbourne, Sara Griffiths
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Rings On Their Fingers  (78,79,80) BBC Richard Waring
   Long term live-togethers finally marry
   Martin Jarvis, Diane Keen
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Rising Damp (74p,75-ab,x76,77,78,film83) ITV(YTV) Eric Chappell
   Bedsitland
   Leonard Rossiter, Richard Beckinsale(not78), Frances De La Tour
   Don Warrington
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The Ritz (87) BBC ?writer
   Nightclub bouncers.  Spinoff/sequel: The Continental
   <cast>
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The River (89) BBC Michael Aitkens
   Lock keeper
   David Essex, Katy Murphy
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Robin's Nest (77,78ab,79,80,81) ITV(Thames) various writers, see {..}
   {77,78a, 80x: Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke, editors throughout}
   {78b: BMcKenna,CBingham&TBrady,JWatkins,TFeely,WHall,KHoare,DFreeman  }
   {79: DFreeman,ARose,BMcKenna,GLayton,DNorton&RTaylor,RWaring&GRenard  }
   {79special: George Layton; 80: George Layton(4eps), Adele Rose(2eps)  }
   {81: George Layton}
   Bistro (spinoff from Man about the House)
   Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt, Tony Britton, David Kelly
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Roger, Roger (98 {p97,98 ?}) BBC John Sullivan
   Minicab drivers
   Robert Daws, Paul Sharma, Keith Allen, Pippa Guard, David Ross, 
   Philip Glenister, Terence Maynard, John Thomson, Helen Grace, 
   Barbara Durkin, Jude Akuwudike, Janet Brown, Ricci Harnete, Kirstie Kober, 
   Lauren Ashby, Tina Jones, Hi Ching, Yvonne D'Alpra  
   [how many of these aren't actually regulars?]
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Roll Over Beethoven (85,86) ITV(Central/Witzend) 
			    Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran
   Rock star in big house has classical piano lessons
   Nigel Planer, Liza Goddard, Richard Vernon
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Romany Jones (73,75) ITV(LWT) writers include: Peter Denyer,
			      Ronald Wolfe & Ronald Chesney
   Life on a mobile homes park
   Arthur Mullard, James Beck->Jonathan Cecil, Jo Rowbottom->Gaye Soper, 
   Queenie Watts
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A Roof Over My Head (77) BBC ?writer 
   [?sitcom]<synopsis>
   Brian Rix, Lynda Baron, Francis Matthews
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Room At The Bottom (86,88) ITV(Yorkshire) Ray Galton and John Antrobus
   Inept TV producer is demoted from drama to game shows
   Keith Barron, James Bolam, Deborah Grant, Marina Sirtis
   *also an early 60s one with same title?
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Room Service (79) ITV(Thames) Jimmy Perry
   Room service manager of big London hotel tries to keep order
   Bryan Pringle, Freddie Earlle, Chris Gannon
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Root Into Europe (92) ITV William Donaldson
   Henry Root, super-patriot bigot, exposes the Continent as decadent & vile
   George Cole, Pat Heywood
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Roots (81) ITV(ATV) Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran
   A jewish dentist (?cancelled at ~3 eps)
   Stanley Meadows, Joy Shelton, Allan Corduner
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Rosie (77,78,79,81) BBC Roy Clarke
   Sensitive copper; followup to Growing Pains of PC Penrose
   Paul Greenwood, Ian Wilmot, Tony Haygarth
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The Rough With The Smooth (p71,75) BBC ?writer
   2 writers share flat, upper vs lower class, work on radio soap
   Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin
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Roy's Raiders (91) BBC ?writer
   delivery firm
   James Grout, Sara Crowe, Rebecca Stevens
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The Royle Family (98) BBC Caroline Aherne, Craig Cash, Henry Normal
   [billed as comdram]
   Council house family in Greater Manchester
   Caroline Aherne, Craig Cash, Sue Johnston, Ricky Tomlinson, Doreen Keogh,
   Ralf Little, Jessica Stevenson
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Rude Health (87) C4 ?writer
   3 disparate GPs in a Home Counties surgery
   John Wells, John Bett, Paul Mori
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Rule Britannia! (75) ITV ?writer
   <synopsis>
   Tony Melody, Richard Davies, Russell Hunter, Joe Lynch, Jo Warne
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Rumble (95) BBC 
   Al Hunter Ashton & Tim O'Mara (1,4); Tim O'Mara (2,5); Brian Glover (3,6)
   Wrestling
   Lesley Joseph, Brian Glover
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