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That's Your Funeral (1970)

That's Your Funeral poster
Genre
sitcom
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 7 episodes
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A sitcom about a funeral business in northern England. The stories draw from urban legends about the funeral industry.

lightheartedwhimsicaldeadpanquirkybriskoffbeatunderstatedplayful

What happens

That's Your Funeral is a 1971 BBC sitcom written by Peter Lewis and starring Bill Fraser, Raymond Huntley and David Battley, about a North of England funeral business. Storylines used urban legends about the funeral industry. It ran for one series of six episodes, following the pilot episode "Last Tribute" broadcast as the 25 March 1970 edition of Comedy Playhouse. A similar theme was used in the ITV sitcom In Loving Memory. BBC One Scotland and BBC One Northern Ireland dropped the show to accommodate their regional programmes in the timeslot That's Your Funeral aired on the network BBC One and BBC One Wales. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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