My Wife Next Door (1972)

Genre

sitcom

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 13 episodes

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

It is a sitcom about a divorced couple who each move to the countryside. They accidentally end up living in houses right next to each other.

lightheartedamusingwhimsicalgentlewrycomfortingironicdown-to-earth

What happens

My Wife Next Door is a British sitcom created by Brian Clemens and Richard Waring, and written by Waring. It was shown on BBC1 in 1972, and ran for 13 episodes. The programme is about a couple, George Basset (John Alderton) and Suzie Basset (Hannah Gordon). Each tries to start afresh after their divorce. They move to the country, only to find that they have moved into adjoining cottages. The series won a British Academy Television Award for Best Situation Comedy in 1973. During a repeat run of the series, in January 1980, one episode gained 19.3 million viewers and was the second most-watched programme that week. In the 1980s, a three-episode VHS video was released. The complete series was released onto DVD in 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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