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My Name Is Harry Worth (1974)

My Name Is Harry Worth poster
Directed by
William G. Stewart
Genre
sitcom
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 8 episodes
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A mild-mannered man gets caught up in a series of unlikely adventures. He lives as a lodger with his landlady Mrs Maybury.

gentlewhimsicaleasygoingmildly comiclightheartednostalgicbumblingold-fashioned

What happens

My Name Is Harry Worth is a British comedy television series which originally aired on ITV in a series of eight episodes in 1974. It starred Harry Worth and Lally Bowers as his landlady Mrs Maybury. Worth plays a mild-mannered, well meaning man who ends up in a series of unlikely adventures. Three of the episodes were scripted by the writing team of George Layton and Jonathan Lynn. The series was made at Teddington Studios, and the opening credits were shot outside the nearby Strawberry Hill railway station. Actors who appeared in episodes of the series included Gerald Sim, Sally Geeson, Reginald Marsh, David Lodge, Glyn Houston, Derek Francis, Peter Jones, Harry Littlewood, John Lyons, Derek Newark, Norman Mitchell and Robert Raglan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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