Ronnie Barker proves his versatility with Seven Of One, a 1973 collection of seven single comedies, two of which would lead to his best known series....
In Channel 4 comedy drama Porterhouse Blue, when his job comes attack and Porterhouse College of Cambridge University is itself under threat of extinction, elderly head...
Ghostboat was an intriguing drama set in the 1980s. The sudden reappearance of a long thought lost-at-sea World War II submarine sparks a mystery that the...
In ITV sitcom Lucky Feller mum’s boy Shorty Mepstead (David Jason), who runs a plumbing business with his worldly wise brother Randolph (Peter Armitage), meets and...
All the King’s Men was a one off period drama broadcast on BBC One on 14 November 1994. David Jason headlined alongside Maggie Smith. In the...
Long running live magazine show for kids Magpie was a clear attempt by ITV to make a show to rival the BBC’s Blue Peter, featuring things...
Final part of a trilogy that started with THE QUEST (in 2002), then THE SECOND QUEST (in April 2004). In this instalment the 1960s lads have...
Comedy sketch series initially conceived for children and shown at 5.20pm, the series featured half of Monty Python (Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Eric Idle) and...
Lionel Jeffries’ film, based on the classic Victorian children’s tale by Charles Kingsley, stars Tommy Pender as Tom, a chimney boy, sent up the chimneys of...
David Jason plays Wilkins Micawber, a good hearted book keeper who is tricked into making a serious mistake and suffers in poverty for years afterwards. This...
David Jason leads the all-star cast in comedy drama series A Bit of A Do, with each episode taking place at a different social function or...
In highly popular sitcom Open All Hours Arkwright, the brown-coated, stuttering, Northern shop-keeper likes to open his corner-shop for as long as the law will permit....
Following on from Hark at Barker and the earlier Ronnie Barker Playhouse, Barker returned with another series of six individual comedies, each written by individual writers...
First broadcast: 1991 Stars: David Jason, Pam Ferris, Catherine Zeta Jones and Philip Franks Based on: The books by HE Bates and adapted by the late...
Arkwright (Ronnie Barker), a miserly, stuttering Northern corner shopkeeper resplendent in brown coat, struggled against a lack of customers and a deadly, guillotine-like till to earn...