Man About the House is a British sitcom starring Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox and Sally Thomsett, with Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy, that was broadcast for six series on ITV from 15 August 1973 to 7 April 1976. It was created and written by Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer. The series was considered daring at the time due to its subject matter of a man sharing a flat with two single women. It was made by Thames Television and recorded at their Teddington studio in Greater London.
Two spin-off series were later made: George and Mildred and Robin's Nest. In 2004, it came 69th in a poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. The series was remade in the United States as Three's Company in 1977. A film version was released in 1974.
Synopsis
Young flatmates Chrissy and Jo find a stranger, student chef Robin Tripp, asleep in their bath the morning after the farewell party for their departed flatmate Eleanor. They are taken with Robin when he makes them a delicious breakfast; they themselves are terrible cooks. Learning that he is staying at the YMCA and is looking for a place, they easily convince him to move in, making it clear, however, that their relationship will be purely platonic. Robin frequently acts in a flirtatious manner toward Chrissy and Jo. The girls spurn his mildly lascivious advances and adapt to his presence in the flat. In an early episode, however, Chrissy finds herself attracted to him, but resists the urge.
, 1h34 Réalisé parJoan Littlewood OrigineRoyaume-uni GenresDrame, Comédie ThèmesAdaptation d'une pièce de théâtre ActeursJames Booth, Barbara Windsor, Roy Kinnear, Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce, George Sewell Note61% Cockney sailor Charlie comes home from a long voyage to find his house razed and his wife Maggie missing. Actually, she's now living with bus driver Bert and has a new baby--whose parentage is in doubt. Charlie's friends won't tell him where Maggie is because he's well known to have a foul temper. But he finally finds her and, after a fierce row with Bert, they are reconciled.
, 1h29 OrigineRoyaume-uni GenresComédie ActeursYootha Joyce, Brian Murphy, Stratford Johns, Norman Eshley, Sheila Fearn, Kenneth Cope Note58% grand écran spin-off de la sitcom seventies. Mildred Roper (Yootha Joyce, qui est mort peu de temps après le tournage a été terminé) est déterminé à faire mari George (Brian Roper) célèbrent leur anniversaire de mariage dans le style, dans un hôtel chic à Londres. Cependant, à l'arrivée George se trompe par un criminel Gangland pour un tueur à gages rival, et bientôt les Ropers se retrouvent à leur cou en difficulté sur le mauvais côté de la loi!
, 1h17 OrigineRoyaume-uni GenresHorreur ActeursBrian Murphy, Damien Thomas, Christopher Lee, Marysia Kay, Edward de Souza, Kiki Kendrick Note52% A young, genealogist (Heather Darcy) whiles away her afternoon in an eerie graveyard to identify graves but stumbles upon an elderly gravedigger (Brian Murphy) anxious to share horror stories with her. The gravedigger delights in telling her four, ghoulish tales.
, 1h33 Réalisé parLeslie Norman OrigineRoyaume-uni GenresDrame ActeursMax Bygraves, Geoffrey Keen, Donald Pleasence, Richard O'Sullivan, Jean Anderson, Eleanor Summerfield Note65% John Saunders (Bygraves), a supply teacher with progressive anti-corporal punishment views, arrives to take up a post at Worrell Street School in a socially deprived area of East London. He is assigned a class of pupils in their last year before leaving school and finds himself in charge of a group of rebellious, badly-behaved teenagers from poor home backgrounds, with no interest in education, who register their defiance of authority by fighting, throwing classroom furniture around, whistling and laughing during bible readings and smoking in class. The school's headmaster Jenkins (Pleasence) is well-meaning but has long become despondent with the seemingly insurmountable challenges posed by his pupils and is resigned to merely serving out his time until retirement. His view that corporal punishment is the only way to maintain even some semblance of order in the classrooms ("You'll never be able to handle them unless you're as tough as they are") is anathema to Saunders, who states his intention to try all other methods of discipline rather than resort to physical violence.
, 1h37 Réalisé parSilvio Narizzano OrigineRoyaume-uni GenresThriller, Horreur ActeursTallulah Bankhead, Stefanie Powers, Donald Sutherland, Maurice Kaufmann, Peter Vaughan, Yootha Joyce Note63% Mrs. Trefoile, une vieille femme empreinte de fanatisme religieux, vit seule avec ses domestiques dans une maison isolee de la campagne anglaise. Un jour, elle recoit la visite de l'ancienne fiancee de son fils decede qui lui annonce qu'elle va bientot se marier. La pieuse dame l'enferme alors dans son grenier ou elle veut purifier l'ame de celle qui fut destinee a son "inoubliable" rejeton .....
, 1h44 Réalisé parJack Clayton OrigineRoyaume-uni GenresDrame, Thriller ThèmesLa famille ActeursDirk Bogarde, Mark Lester, Pamela Franklin, Phoebe Nicholls, Yootha Joyce, Anthony Nicholls Note71% Près de Londres, sept enfants de 4 à 13 ans vivent avec leur mère, leur père est parti depuis des années. Quand celle-ci meurt, les enfants décident de continuer à vivre comme si de rien n'était afin de ne pas être envoyés à l'orphelinat. Chaque soir, à neuf heurs, ils se recueillent sur la tombe de leur mère cachée dans le jardin. Un jour, leur père réapparait sans prévenir, les enfants vont s'efforcer de lui cacher la vérité.
, 1h50 Réalisé parLionel Jeffries OrigineRoyaume-uni GenresDrame, Comédie ThèmesTransport, Le train, Films pour enfants ActeursJenny Agutter, Gary Warren, Sally Thomsett, Dinah Sheridan, Bernard Cribbins, Iain Cuthbertson Note72% L'histoire relate les aventures des enfants Waterbury, qui sont obligés de déménager avec leur mère (Dinah Sheridan) d'une luxueuse villa édouardienne dans la banlieue de Londres pour "Three Chimneys", une maison à proximité du fictionel "Great Northern and Southern Railway " dans les Yorkshire Dales. Le père (Iain Cuthbertson), qui travaille au bureau des Affaires étrangères, a été emprisonné après avoir été accusé d'avoir vendu des secrets d'Etat aux Russes.