The British Thames
Television sitcom “Man About the House” premièred on 15 August
1973 on ITV. It was broadcast for six series from 1973 to 1976. The
series was written en created by Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke
and starred Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox and Sally Thomsett.
After the series ended two spin-offs were made: “George and
Mildred” and “Robin's Nest”.
Synopsis
When two young, attractive
girls, Chrissy (Paula Wilcox) and Jo (Sally Thomsett), search for a
third sharer to help pay the rent on their Earl's Court flat, they
intended on finding another female. But they reconsider when they
meet young Robin Tripp (Richard O'Sullivan), a catering student whom
they discover asleep in their bath the morning after a party. It just
so happens that he is on the look out for somewhere local to rent, he
tries to win the girls over with his wit and charm, but it is his
culinary skills that make him the dish of the day as far as Chrissy
and Jo are concerned and so Robin becomes their third flatmate. This
innocent menage a trois understandably raises a few eyebrows,
particularly with their landlords, George (Brian Murphy) and Mildred
Roper (Yootha Joyce), who live downstairs.
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| Sally Thomsett, Paula Wilcox and Richard O'Sullivan |
- Sally Thomsett as Jo
- Paula Wilcox as Chrissy Plummer
- Richard O'Sullivan as Robin Tripp
- Yootha Joyce as Mildred Roper
- Brian Murphy as George Roper
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| Sally Thomsett as Jo |
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| Paula Wilcox as Chrissy |
- TP de Oro (Spain) for Best Foreign Actor: Richard O'Sullivan (1979)
- TP de Oro (Spain) for Best Foreign Actress: Paula Wilcox (1979)
Opening Titles (1973)
There was also the Hammer feature film version in 1974. A good film but Hammer were sliding into serious financial problems before ending the decade bankrupt. Their only subsequent feature films, before their modern revival, were 'To the Devil a Daughter' (1976) and 'The Lady Vanishes' (1979).
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