After Henry (1988)

Genre

sitcom

Country

United Kingdom

Length

4 seasons, 38 episodes

Rated

PG

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widow, her mother, and her daughter share a house after the death of the husband and father. The show follows their daily lives and the comedic tensions between three generations of women.

lightheartedbriskwittycomfortingmid-tempofamily-focusedwarmunderstated

What happens

After Henry is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 4 January 1988 to 24 August 1992. It was based on the radio series of the same name that was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1985 and 1989. Like the radio series, the TV series was written by Simon Brett, and starred Prunella Scales and Joan Sanderson. It was made for the ITV network by Thames Television. The opening and closing music is "Three-Quarter Blues", by George Gershwin. The BBC was reluctant to produce After Henry for television, so in 1988 after the third radio series Thames Television did so. The show was surprisingly popular, attracting over 14 million viewers. A second television series was shown during the same months as the fourth radio series with, in many cases, both radio and television episodes being broadcast on the same nights. The fourth television series was broadcast from July 1992, after the death of Joan Sanderson, who had died on 24 May. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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