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My Good Friend (1995)

My Good Friend poster
Genre
sitcom
Country
United Kingdom
Elsewhere
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How it feels

Two widowed older men become unlikely friends and support each other through the ups and downs of daily life. One is a retired librarian and the other a pensioner trying to adjust to living alone.

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What happens

My Good Friend is a British television sitcom produced by Hartswood Films in association with Anglia Television for ITV, and it ran for two years between 4 April 1995 and 8 October 1996. It starred George Cole and Richard Pearson as widowed pensioner Peter Banks (Cole) and retired librarian Harry King (Pearson). The show ran for two series, each of seven episodes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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