Moody and Pegg (1974)

Genre

sitcom

Country

United Kingdom

Length

2 seasons, 12 episodes

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A newly divorced antiques dealer and a plain civil servant both end up with leases on the same London flat. They agree to share the home as feuding partners, leading to awkward situations made worse by his many visiting girlfriends.

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What happens

Moody and Pegg is a bittersweet British comedy-drama, produced by Thames Television for ITV between 1974 and 1975. Written by Donald Churchill and Julia Jones, the series starred Derek Waring and Judy Cornwell. Waring played Roland Moody, a newly divorced antiques dealer greatly anticipating freedom from matrimonial ties. Cornwell was cast as Daphne Pegg, plain spinster and dedicated civil servant in her early thirties who leaves her home in Bolton after realising that her office boss will never agree to marry her. She heads for London in order to make a clean break from her past, but, owing to a rogue estate agent's dealings, finds that a man – Moody – also has a valid lease arrangement for the property she acquires. Unable to work out who is the squatter, they agree to be feuding partners and share, forging a very uncomfortable situation that is exacerbated by Moody's prodigious line of visiting girlfriends. Eventually, Moody loses in a winner-takes-all poker game and leaves, only to return in the second series. The title theme is "The Free Life" by prolific library music composer Alan Parker. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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