The Definitive UK Sitcom List, part S-V, 622 lines, updated 1999-02-05
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Sadie, It's Cold Outside (75) ITV ?writer
  <synopsis>
  Rosemary Leach
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Safe And Sound (96) BBC Timothy Prager
  Belfast motor mechanics    (comdram really)
  Des McAleer, Sean McGinley, Michelle Fairley, Gabrielle Reidy, 
  Saoirse O'Dwyer, Conor O'Dwyer
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Sam And Janet (67) ITV(ATV) David Cumming
   Comfortably-off couple at war with one another
   John Junkin, Joan Sims, Harry Locke
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Screaming (92) BBC Carla Lane
   Women sharing house all once had relationships with same guy, 
      who turns out not to be dead after all {poss comdram not sitcom}
   Gwen Taylor, Penelope Wilton, Jill Baker

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Scully (84) C4 Alan Bleasdale   
   Scouse scally [pilot play "Sculley's New Year's Eve" 78 BBC]
   Andrew Scofield, Elvis Costello, Kenny Dalgliesh, Ray Kingsley, 
   Mark McGann, Tom Georgeson, Sam Kelly
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Sean's Show (92,94) C4 Sean Hughes 
   Sean lives in a small flat and pines for Susan; spoof of sitcom
   Sean Hughes, Eileen Way
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Searching (95) (ITV) Carla Lane
   Dysfunctional women in therapy centre attempt to cope with their problems.
   Prunella Scales, Julia St. John, Regina Freedman, Clare Cathcart, 
   Victoria Carling, Amanda Bellamy
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Seaview (83,85) BBC Chris Barlas
   Seaside boarding house [possibly kidstuff but Times describe as sitcom]
   <cast>
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Second Thoughts (91,92-,93,94) ITV(LWT) Jan Etherington & Gavin Petrie
   Man might remarry if ex-wife would leave him alone        [from Radio4]
   James Bolam, Belinda Lang, Lynda Bellingham, Julia Sawalha, Mark Denham,
   Geoffrey Whitehead, Ian Henderson
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Second Time Around (74) BBC Richard Waring
   Divorced man finds love with younger woman
   Michael Craig, Patricia Brake, Sheila Steafel, Gerald Flood, 
   Jacqueline Clarke
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Seconds Out (81ab-) BBC Bill MacIlwraith
   No-hope boxer
   Robert Lindsay, Lee Montague, Leslie Ash, Ken Jones
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The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole, Age 13 3/4 (85) ITV(Thames) Sue Townsend 
   Adrian Mole in puberty [?sitcom: some votes for]
   Gian Sammarco, Julie Walters, Beryl Reid, Stephen Moore,
   Steven Mackintosh
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Selwyn (78) ITV(YTV) Lawrie Kinsley & Ron McDonnell 
	    see also Oh No! It's Selwyn Froggitt
   Selwyn becomes ents officers at holiday camp
   Bill Maynard, Bernard Gallagher
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Send In The Girls (78) ITV ?writer
   Sales promotion girls
   Annie Ross, Elisabeth Sladen, Brian Miller, Andrew Sachs
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Seven Faces Of Jim was not a proper sitcom
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Sharon And Elsie (84,85) BBC Arline Whittaker
   Secretary & typist in greeting card factory
   Brigit Forsyth, Janette Beverley
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A Sharp Intake Of Breath (78,79,80,81) ITV(ATV) various writers including:
       Ronnie Taylor, Kenneth Cope, Leslie Duxbury
   David Jason as the little man battling against authority
   David Jason, Jacqueline Clarke, Richard Wilson, Alun Armstrong
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Shelley (79,80,x80:-81,82ab,83-,89-,90,ny91,92) ITV(Thames) Peter Tilbury
      Writers include (from 82a) Colin Bostock-Smith; (89) Andy Hamilton;
		Barry Pilton(89-); Guy Jenkin(89-)
   On the dole with a degree: see also The Return of Shelley (under R)
   Hywel Bennett, Belinda Sinclair, Josephine Tewson, 
   Caroline Langrishe(89->), Andrew Castell(89->)
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The Shillingbury Tales (p80,81) ITV(ATV) Francis Essex
   Picturesque English village; see also Cuthie, a spin-off
   Robin Nedwell, Diane Keen, Bernard Cribbins, Lionel Jeffries, Jack Douglas
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Shine On Harvey Moon (82ab,84,85,95) ITV(Central/Witzend)
	Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran
   Postwar austerity after being demobbed from the RAF
   Kenneth Cranham, Pauline Quirke, Maggie Steed, Elizabeth Spriggs, 
   Dudley Sutton, Suzanne Bertish, Lee Whitlock   
   95: Nicky Henson, Elizabeth Spriggs, Maggie Steed, Linda Robson, 
   Nigel Planer, Lee Whitlock
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Shirley's World (72) ITV(ATV) ?writer
  Screwball journalist travels the world (first shown US, but UK production)
  Shirley MacLaine, John Gregson
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Side By Side (92,93) BBC Richard Ommanney
   Mismatched neighbours
   Louisa Rix, Gareth Hunt, Julia Deakin, Mia Fothergill, Alex Walkinshaw,
   Christopher Scoular, Jackie Smith-Wood
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Singles (88,89,91) ITV(Yorkshire) Eric Chappell & Jean Warr
   4 people go to singles club
   Susie Blake, Judy Loe, Eamonn Boland, Roger Rees.
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Sink Or Swim (81-ab,82) BBC Alex Shearer
   Brothers living on canal boat
   Peter Davison, Robert Glenister, Sara Corper
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Sitting Pretty (92,93) BBC John Sullivan
   Airhead returns to family when husband dies bankrupt
   Diane Bull, Heather Tobias, Alison Lomas, Vilma Hollingbury
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Six More Faces Of Jim was not a proper sitcom
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Slap! - Love, Lies and Lipstick (98) C4 Tim Dynevor
  Department store and bank staff in romantic mixups
  Melanie Kilburn, Steven Duffy, Camilla Power, Kaye Wragg, 
  Robert McKewley, Bob Mason, Noreen Kershaw, Greg Baines,
  Joan Campion, Cliff Howells
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Slapstick And Old Lace (71) ITV Charlie Drake
   <synopsis>
   Charlie Drake
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Slinger's Day (85) ITV(Thames) created Brian Cooke, various writers
   Supermarket manager (sequel to Tripper's Day after Rossiter died)
   Bruce Forsyth
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Small People (?) ?channel ?writer
   <synopsis>
   Christopher Ryan
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A Small Problem (87) BBC Tony Millan & Mike Walling
   Heightist apartheid
   Christopher Ryan, Mike Elles
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Small World wasn't really a sitcom
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Snakes And Ladders (89) C4 Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran
   2 people on wrong side of lines after N-S divide becomes an apartheid
   Ade Edmondson, John Gordon Sinclair
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So Haunt Me (92x,93,94) BBC(Cinema Verity) Paul A Mendelson
   Typical_Jewish_mother ghost
   Tessa Peake-Jones, George Costigan, Miriam Karlin, Laura Simmons, 
   Jeremy Green
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So You Think You've Got Troubles (91) BBC Johnny Speight
   Irish factory  (sitcom?)
   Warren Mitchell, James Ellis
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Sob Sisters (89) ITV(Central) Andrew Marshall
   Snobby ex-diplomat sister returns to England to live with poorer sister
   Gwen Taylor, Polly Adams, Freddie Jones
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A Soft Touch (78) ITV(ATV) Connor Fraser
   Man dreams of showbix career, wife hopes he'll get a proper job
   John Flanagan, Maureen Lipman
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Solo  (81,82) BBC Carla Lane
   Single woman struggles for independence
   Felicity Kendal, Stephen Moore (81), Elspet Gray, Michael Howe(82)
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Some Matters Of Little Consequence (71) BBC2 ed David Nobbs [?sitcom]
  <synopsis>
   Kenneth Griffith, Frank Thornton, Sheila Steafel
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Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (73ab,x74,x75,78x) BBC Raymond Allan 
						& Michael Crawford(78)
   Accident prone dimwit
   Michael Crawford, Michele Dotrice
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Sometime Never (96) ITV Jenny Lecoat
  Sara Crowe, Ann Bryson, Harry burton, Lucinda Fisher, Paul Chapman
  "Two close friends" aka the girls from the Philadelphia cheese ads
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Son Of The Bride (73) BBC John Kane
   <synopsis>
   Terry Scott, Molly Sugden
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Sorry! (81,82abx,85,86,87,88) BBC Ian Davidson & Peter Vincent
   Guy never left home - domineering mother
   Ronnie Corbett, Barbara Lott, William Moore
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Sorry I'm A Stranger Here Myself (81,82) ITV David Firth & Peter Tilbury
   Librarian leaves wife, moves into inherited house, punk squatter
   Robin Bailey
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Sorry I'm Single (67) BBC Ronald Wolfe & Ronals Chesney
   Residents of a group of flatlets
   Derek Nimmo, Gwendolyn Watts, Elizabeth Knight, Pik-Sen Lim
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Sounding Brass (80) ITV ?writer
   Brass band in deperate need of cash
   Brian Glover, Gwen Taylor
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South of the Border (85) ITV(Yorkshire)  Peter Tinniswood
  Proud Yorkshireman is forced to move to the south.
  Brian Glover, Belinda Sinclair, Mossie Smith
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Spark (97) BBC Roy Clarke
   Life, loves & mid-life crisis of 40-something bachelor
   James Fleet
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Split Ends (89) ITV(Granada) Len Richmond
   Hairdressers
   Anita Dobson, Harry Ditson, Peter Blake
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Spooner's Patch (79p-,80,82) ITV(ATV) Johnny Speight & Ray Galton
   Comic policeman
   Ian Bannen(79pilot)->Ronald Fraser(79-80)->Donald Churchill(80), 
   Patricia Hayes, Peter Cleall, John Lyons, Norman Rossington, Dermot Kelly
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Spring And Autumn (p72,73,?,76) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell & Harry Driver
   Pensioner goes to live with his daughter
   Jimmy Jewel, Charlie Hawkins, Gaye Brown, June Barry, Larry Martin
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Square Deal (88,89) ITV Richard Ommanney
   hunk next door to yuppies, earth mother+useless bloke downstairs
   <cast?>
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The Square Leopard (80) ITV ?writer
   Struggling young solicitor lodges with widowed mother of 5
   John Leyton
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The Squirrels (p74?74p,75,76ab-) ITV(ATV) Eric Chappell
   Accounts office of an TV hire company
   Bernard Hepton, Shaun O'Riordan, Ken Jones, Patsy Rowlands, Alan David,
   Ellis Jones, Karin McCarthy
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Steptoe And Son (62p,63,64,65,70ab,72,x73,74) BBC Ray Galton & Alan Simpson
     Films "Steptoe And Son" 72, "Steptoe And Son Ride Again" 73
   Rag'n'bone men                   
   Harry H Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell
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Straight Down The Middle (?) ?channel ?writer
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
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The Strange World Of Gurney Slade (60) ITV(ATV) 
	 Sid Green & Dick Hills; created Anthony Newley
   A young man wanders through life in a state of fantasy.
   Anthony Newley
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Streets Apart (?when) BBC Adrienne Conway
   London cabbie meets old flame, now lit. agent pretends to be secretary  
   2nd series: economic/class disparity known
   Amanda Redman, James Hazeldine, June Barry, Desmond McNamara
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Stressed Eric (98) BBC Carl Gorham
  Animation.  Single parent office worker Eric has the life from hell.
  Voices: Alexander Armstrong, Morwenna Banks, Rebecca Front, Mark Heap,
  Gordon Kennedy, Geoff McGivern, Doon MacKichan, Paul Shearer, 
  Alison Steadman
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Struggle (83) C4 Peter Jenkins
   Loony-left leader of a socialist-controlled London borough council
   Tim Pigott-Smith
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The Sun Trap (80) BBC David Nobbs
   Ex-pat Brits on Mediterranean island
   Terence Alexander, Joan Benham, Graham Crowden, Donald Churchill,
   Zena Walker
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Supergran has been adjudged as kid's stuff
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Surgical Spirit (89,90,91,92,93,94,95) ITV(Granada) Peter Learmouth
     94 series credits a 'writing team' who seem to do an ep each, including:
     Peter Learmouth, Graeme Garden, Raymond Dixon, Annie Wood
   Squabbling surgeons
   Nicola MacAuliffe, Duncan Preston, Marji Campi, David Conville, 
   Emlyn Price, Suzette Llewellyn, Simon Harrison, Beresford Le Roy,
   Andrew Groves
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Sweet Sixteen (83) BBC Douglas Watkinson
   16years age difference romance twixt architect&contractor
   Penelope Keith, Christopher Villiers, Mike Grady, Joan Blackham,
   John Rapley, Victor Spinetti
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Sykes (59,60,72,73,?74,75,76,77,78,79) BBC Eric Sykes (59: Johnny Speight)
   Adventures of a bachelor and his sister
   there was a 1971 series, subtitled: "Sykes and a Big, Big Show"
   Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques, Deryck Guyler, Richard Wattis(pre75)
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Take A Chance (80-) ITV ?writer
   probably doesn't count as sitcom after all
   Theatrical digs grandly known as The Rose Marie Hotel
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Take A Letter, Mr Jones (81) ITV(Southern) Ronald Wolfe & Ronald Chesney
   Career woman with male secretary
   Rula Lenska, John Inman, Miriam Margolyes
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Take My Wife (79) ITV(Granada) Anthony Couch 
   Struggling standup comic and his agent
   Sheila Hancock, Duggie Brown, Victor Spinetti
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Take Three Girls (69-,71) BBC Charlotte Bingham & Terence Brady
   3 girls share a flat
   Liza Goddard, Susan Jameson, Angela Down
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Take Three Women (82) BBC Charlotte Bingham & Terence Brady
   Continuation of Take Three Girls
   Liza Goddard, Susan Jameson, Angela Down
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Tales From The Poopdeck was kidstuff and maybe not even sitcomish at all
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The Tales Of Para Handy (94,95) BBC Bob Black
   Decrepit coastal steamer and crew on the Clyde (cf The Vital Spark)
   Gregor Fisher, Andrew Fairlie, Rikki Fulton, Sean Scanlon, Paul Young
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Tandoori Nights (85) C4 Farrukh Dhondy      
   Two rival Indian restaurateurs, one a widower with two daughters
   Saeed Jaffrey, Rita Wolf, Badi Uzzaman, Tariq Yunus, Zohra Segal.  
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Tears Before Bedtime (83) BBC Richard Waring
   Middle-aged couple with inconsiderate children run away from home
   Geraldine McEwan, Francis Matthews
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Teenage Health Freak (91,93) C4(Limelight) Daniel Peacock
				       additional material Keith Allen (91)
   Adolescent anguish
   Alex Langdon, Daniel Peacock, Liza Walker, Tilly Vosburgh, Ella Wilder,
   Aaron Carrington, Samantha Edmonds (93) 
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The 10%ers (p93,94,96) ITV Doug Naylor
   West End talent agency
   Denis Lill(p93)->Clive Francis(94), Benedict Taylor, Elizabeth Bennett, 
   Gabrielle Cowburn, Colin Stinton, Hilda Braid, Irene Sutcliffe
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Terry And Julian (92) C4 Julian Clary, Paul Merton, and somebody else
   Julian Clary moves in with A.N.Other and camps it up (what a surprise)
   Julian Clary, Lee Simpson
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Terry And June (79,80x,81x,82abx,83,85) BBC writers include:
      John Kane, Jon Watkins, Terry Ravenscroft, Colin Bostock-Smith,
      John Chapman & Eric Merriman, David Grigson
   Dull things happen to suburban couple: sequel to Happy Ever After
   Terry Scott, June Whitfield
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That Beryl Marston...! (81) ITV(Southern) Jan Butlin
   Curiosity shop owner's husband has affair
   Julia McKenzie, Gareth Hunt, Peter John, Jonathon Morris
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That's Love (87?,88?,90) ITV Terence Frisby
   Lawyer and wife fall out occasionally
   Jimmy Mulville, Diana Hardcastle, Tony Slattery(90), Neil Pearson
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That's My Boy (81,83x,84x,85) ITV Pam Valentine & Michael Ashton
   Cleaner discovers employer is son she gave up for adoption
   Mollie Sugden, Christopher Blake, Jennifer Lonsdale, Clare Richards,
   Ian Lavender
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That's Your Funeral (p70,71) BBC Peter Lewis
   Basil Bulstrode's funereal establishment, 
   Bill Fraser, David Battley, Raymond Huntley
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Them (72) BBC1  Johnny Speight  [not sure whether this might be comdram]
  Two tramps, one Irish, the other Cockney
  Cyril Cusack, James Booth
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Then Churchill Said To Me (82) BBC ?writer
   [First shown on UK Gold due to Falklands conflict ]
   Lackey in the War Office
   Frankie Howerd
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There Comes A Time (85) ITV(Yorkshire) Wally K Daly
   Executive "about to make medical history"; Rare fatal disease
   Andrew Sachs, Judy Cornwell
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Thick As Thieves (74) ITV(LWT) Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais
   Released prisoner finds wife living with best friend
   Bob Hoskins, John Thaw, Pat Ashton
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Thicker Than Water (81) ITV(YTV) Dick Sharples
   Yorkshire widower with 2 unmarried musical sons
   Joss Ackland, Colin Farrell, Peter Denyer
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The Thin Blue Line (95x,96) BBC Ben Elton
   Out-of-date detective
   Rowan Atkinson, David Haig, Kevin Allen, Serena Evans, Mina Anwar, 
   James Dreyfus, Rudolph Walker
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Thingumybob (68) ITV(LWT) Kenneth Cope
  Retirement
  Stanley Pickles, Rose Hill, John Junkin, Kate Williams, 
  William Maxwell, Peta Vernon-Till
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Third Time Lucky (82) ITV ?writer
  Divorced couple want to remarry, but there are complications
  Derek Nimmo, Nerys Hughes, Angela Douglas, Gerald Flood
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This Is David Harper (90) C4 Tony Sarchet
  Spoof investigative journalist (follow-on from This Is David Lander)
  Tony Slattery
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This Is David Lander (88) C4 Tony Sarchet
  Spoof investigative journalist
  Stephen Fry
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Three In A Bed (72,?) ITV(Thames/Yorkshire) ?writer, in collaboration 
	  with (somebody) Firkin
  Northern pub darts team, POSSIBLY PILOT ONLY
  Roy Barraclough, 
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Three Live Wires (61) ITV(AR) James Kelly & Peter Miller
   TV sales & repair shop
   Michael Medwin, Bernard Fox, Deryck Guyler, George Roderick
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Three Up, Two Down (85,86) BBC Richard Ommanney
   Couple+baby up, her mother + his father down. her mid class, him lower
   Michael Elphick, Lysette Anthony, Neil Stacy(86), Angela Thorne
   Ray Burdis
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Till Death Us Do Part (p65,66,-67,68,72x,74ab-,75,81) 
		      BBCto75,ITV81 Johnny Speight
       76 spring bank holiday special "Till Closing Time Us Do Part"
   A bigot
   Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nicholls(until75,not p65), Una Stubbs, 
   Anthony Booth, Patricia Hayes, Alfie Bass(from75)
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Time After Time (94,95) ITV Paul Minett & Brian Leveson
   Ex-con tries to go straight
   Brian Conley, Samantha Beckinsale, Kate Williams, David Shane, 
   Richard Graham, Georgia Allen, Neil McCaul
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Time Of My Life (80) BBC Jim Eldridge
   Man loses his job and wife
   Mark Kingston, Amanda Barrie
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To The Manor Born (79x,80,81) BBC Peter Spence
   Woman has to sell stately home and move to gatehouse
   Penelope Keith, Peter Bowles, Angela Thorne, Gerald Sim, John Rudling, 
   Michael Bilton, Daphne Heard, Daphne Oxenford, Anthony Sharp, 
   Joyce Windsor 
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Tom, Dick, And Harriet (82,83) ITV(Thames) Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke
   Old reprobate widower moves in on son and daughter-in-law
   Lionel Jeffries, Ian Ogilvy, Brigit Forsyth
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The Tony Hancock Show (56ab-) ITV(AR)
   1st series probably not sitcom
   <synopsis>
   Tony Hancock
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The Top Secret Life Of Edgar Briggs (74) ITV(LWT) 
					   Bernard McKenna & Richard Laing
   Bungling MI5 man
   David Jason
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Tottenham 2 (98-) C4 Ashmeed Sohoye
   Two layabouts in Tottenham
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A Touch Of Spice (89) BBC ?writer
   2 young women start a catering company
   <cast>
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The Train Now Standing (72,73) ITV(LWT) ?writer
   Stationmaster on an overlooked branch line.
   Bill Fraser, Hugh Walters
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Tripper's Day (84) ITV(Thames) created Brian Cooke, various writers
   Supermarket manager
   Leonard Rossiter (last role), Pat Ashton, Gordon Gostelow, James Ellis
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Troubles And Strife (85,86) ITV Shaun O'Riordan
   Young handsome single vicar
   Stephen Pacey, Diana Weston
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Trouble In Mind (91) ITV Colin Bostock-Smith
   Psychiatrist
   Richard O'Sullivan, Susan Penhaligon)
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The Trouble With You, Lilian (71) ITV(LWT) Jennifer Phillips
  <synopsis>
  Dandy Nichols, Patricia Hayes
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Turn Out the Lights (67) ITV(Granada) Peter Eckersley & Kenneth Cope
   2nd Coronation Street Mr Swindley spin-off: now amateur ghost hunter
   Arthur Lowe, Robert Dorning
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Turnbull's Finest Half-Hour (72) ITV(Yorkshire)  Ken Hoare & Mike Sharland
  Tiny local independent-television station
  Michael Bates, Raymond Huntley, Liz Fraser, Roddy Maude-Roxby
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Turtle's Progress (79,80) ITV Edmund Ward
   Petty crooks acquire lorryload of safe deposit boxes
   John Landry, Michael Atwell
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Two In Clover (69,70) ITV(Thames) Harry Driver & Vince Powell
   2 city dwellers move to a ramshackle farm
   Victor Spinetti, Sidney James
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The Two Of Us (86,87,89,90) ITV(LWT) Alex Shearer
   Young couple
   Nicholas Lyndhurst, Janet Dibley, Patrick Troughton(86),Tenniel Evans(87)
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Two Old Dears (73) ITV ?writer 
   Two bickering sister-in-laws share house. Dropped immediately after
      first episode savaged by critics.
   Joan Hickson, Wynne Clark
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2point4 Children (91,92x,93x,94x,95x,96x,98) BBC Andrew Marshall
   Average family encounter bizarre situations
   Belinda Lang, Gary Olsen, Julia Hills, John Pickard,
   Claire Woodgate(91,92)->Clare Buckfield(93->)
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Two Up, Two Down (79) BBC ?writer 
   {this is not an error for 3 up 2 down}
   Squatters in couple's new Manchester dream house
   Su Pollard
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Two's Company (75,76,?77,78) ITV(LWT) Bill McIlwraith
   American writer in London has stormy relationship with butler
   Elaine Stritch, Donald Sinden
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Tygo Road (?late80s/early90s) BBC ?writer
   Chaotic community centre
   Kevin McNally 
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Unfinished Business (98,99) BBC Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran
   Divorcee and ex-husband
   Harriet Walter, Henry Goodman, Jaye Griffiths, Brigitte Kahn,
   Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh, William Mannering
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Union Castle (82) ITV(Granada) Douglas Argent
   Trade union peer lives in castle owned by pension fund
   Stratford Johns
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Up Pompeii! (p69,70ab) BBC Talbot Rothwell & Sid Colin (after Plautus)
     film 71 Up Pompeii Sid Colin, also spinoff films Up The Chastity Belt, 
     Up The Front, same character but different time periods (crusades, WW1)
   Slapstick & titillation in ancient Pompeii
   Frankie Howerd, Max Adrian->Wallas Eaton, Elizabeth Larner, Georgina Moon, 
   Kerry Gardner, Willie Rushton(a), Trisha Noble(a), Jeanne Mockford
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Up The Elephant And Round The Castle (83-,85ab) ITV(Thames) Anthony Parker
      parts of 85a seen in 84 in some regions
   Cockney capers
   Jim Davidson, Marina Sirtis
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Up The Garden Path (?,93) ITV Sue Limb
   Schoolteacher in search of love    {from Radio4}
   Imelda Staunton, Mike Grady, Nicholas Le Provost, Tessa Peake-Jones,
   Rene Zaggers, Susan Kyd, Tom Mannion, Neil McCaul
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Up The Workers (p73,74,76) ITV(ATV) Tom Brennand & Roy Bottomley
   Midlands components factory
   Henry McGee, Lance Percival, Norman Bird
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The Upchat Connexion (78) ITV Keith Waterhouse
   Successor to above
   Robin Nedwell
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The Upchat Line (77) ITV Greg Freeman; Keith Waterhouse
   Fast talking bachelor sponges off everybody
   John Alderton
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The Upper Crusts (73) ITV(LWT) ?writer
   <synopsis>
   Margaret Leighton, Charles Gray
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The Upper Hand (90,91,92,93,95) ITV John Donley & Clay Graham; 
				 93: various writers
   Male housekeeper; UK version of Who's The Boss?
   Diana Weston, Joe McGann, Honor Blackman, Kellie Bright, William Puttock
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Us Girls (92,93) BBC Lisselle Kayla
   Interfering grandmother
   Mona Hammond, Nicola Blackman, Allister Bain, Marlaine Gordon, 
   Kerry Potter, Dona Croll, Trevor Thomas, Oke Wamba
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Vacant Lot (67) ITV(ABC) ?writer  ?sitcom
   <synopsis>
   Nicky Henson
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Valentine Park (87) ?channel ?writer
   Gardeners in a public park
   David Thewlis
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Very Big Very Soon (91) ITV(Central) Daniel Peacock
   Theatrical agent representing no-hopers
   Paul McShane
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The Very Merry Widow (67-,68?) BBC Alan Melville
   <synopsis>
   Moira Lister
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The Very Merry Widow And How (69) BBC Alan Melville
   Market researcher for consumer magazine
   Moira Lister, Sally Thomsett, Nicholas Parsons, Donald Hewlett
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A Very Peculiar Practice (86,88) BBC Andrew Davies [?sitcom?comdram?]
      special: A Very Polish Practice - Davison, Troughton, Kanska
   University docs: nice guy, nasty tory, old alcy, manipulative feminist
   Peter Davison, David Troughton, Graham Crowden, Barbara Flynn,
   Amanda Hillwood(86+1ep), Joanna Kanska(88)
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The Vicar Of Dibley (94,x96,x97,98) BBC Richard Curtis 
			     plus Paul Mayhew Archer, Kit Hesketh Harvey
   Small village gets female vicar
   Dawn French, Gary Waldhorn, James Fleet, Emma Chambers, Liz Smith,
   John Bluthal, Trevor Peacock, Roger Lloyd Pack
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The Vital Spark (59,70s) BBC Neil Munro
   Decrepit coastal steamer & crew on the Clyde
59: Duncan McCrae, Alex McEvoy, Walter Carr, John Grieve
70s: Roddy McMillan
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