You Must Be The Husband (1987)

Directed by

Richard Boden

Genre

sitcom

Country

United Kingdom

Length

2 seasons, 13 episodes

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A married couple with twin children suddenly become wealthy when the wife writes a best-selling book. Her husband is surprised by this success and feels a mix of pride and annoyance. The show follows their new life with the wife's literary agent adding to the fun.

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What happens

You Must Be the Husband is a British comedy television series starring Tim Brooke-Taylor in the title role of Tom Hammond, and Diane Keen as his wife, Alice Hammond, with Sheila Steafel as Alice's literary agent, Miranda Shaw. Tom and Alice Hammond are a happily married couple, parents to fraternal twins John and Sarah, who become extremely wealthy when Alice suddenly becomes a best-selling author, much to Tom's surprise and chagrin. The basic plot was based on, and expanded upon, the earlier play "...And I'm The Husband", which Brooke-Taylor and Keen had toured in between 1981 and 1982. The show ran for two series and 13 episodes on the BBC during 1987-1988 and was repeated in the early 1990s on UK Gold, but has never officially been released on DVD, nor in any digital format. The title song for the show was the Dave Brubeck track, "Take Five". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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