Further Adventures of Lucky Jim (1967)

Original title

Further Adventures Of Lucky Jim

Genre

comedy

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 7 episodes

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young university lecturer named Jim Dixon gets into a series of mild misadventures in 1960s London. This series updates the story from the earlier novel to a swinging sixties setting.

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What happens

Further Adventures of Lucky Jim or The New Adventures of Lucky Jim is a comedy television series which first aired on BBC1 in 1967. Inspired by the novel Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, it updates the story from the early 1950s of the novel to mid-1960s Swinging London. It stars Keith Barron as the young university lecturer Jim Dixon. The scriptwriters wrote a belated sequel The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim starring Enn Reitel in 1982. The majority of the episodes are now considered lost. In 2024 audio recordings were found for several missing episodes from the series. These episodes are entitled 'Jim's In', 'Jim Cleans Up', 'Look Why Don't We Go Back To My Place?' and 'Jim Freaks Out'. Other actors who appeared in the series include Suzy Kendall, Nerys Hughes, John Le Mesurier, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, John Junkin, Donald Hewlett, William Kendall, Robert Raglan, Felix Bowness, Janina Faye, Patrick Newell, Diana King and Michael Balfour. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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