Meet the Wife

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Meet the Wife is a 1960s BBC situation comedy written by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe, which featured Freddie Frinton as Freddie Blacklock with Thora Hird as his tyrannical wife, Thora. It ran to five series. The series was based on a 1963 BBC television Comedy Playhouse production, "The Bed". The theme tune was by Russ Conway and incidental music by Norman Percival and later Dennis Wilson. The producers were John Paddy Carstairs and later Robin Nash. The Beatles song "Good Morning, Good Morning" on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band includes the lyric "It's time for tea and Meet the Wife".

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Cast

Thora Hird Thora Blacklock

Freddie Frinton Freddie Blacklock

Barbara Miller Mrs. Bird

David Morrell Dr. Clark

Arthur Howard The Vlcar, The Vicar

Bartlett Mullins Harry, Second Passenger

Harold Goodwin Milkman, Nobby

Stanley Meadows Tom

Noel Dyson Cousin Olive

Pearl Hackney Mrs. Parkyn

Crew

Ronald Chesney

Ronald Wolfe

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