That's Your Funeral (1970)
- Genre
- sitcom
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 1 season, 6 episodes
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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