Meet the Wife (1963)

Genre

sitcom

Country

United Kingdom

Length

5 seasons, 38 episodes

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A British sitcom from the 1960s about a henpecked husband and his domineering wife. It follows their everyday domestic life and comedic disagreements.

lighthearteddatedwittygentlebritishdomesticplayfulmid-century

What happens

Meet the Wife is a 1960s BBC sitcom written by Chesney and Wolfe, which featured Freddie Frinton as Freddie Blacklock with Thora Hird as his tyrannical wife Thora. It ran for five series. The series was based on a 1963 BBC television Comedy Playhouse production, "The Bed". The theme tune was by Russ Conway and incidental music by Norman Percival and later Dennis Wilson. The producers were John Paddy Carstairs and later Robin Nash. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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