Meet the Wife
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Starring
Thora HirdFreddie FrintonBarbara MillerDavid MorrellArthur HowardBartlett Mullins
Written by
Ronald ChesneyRonald Wolfe
Starring
Thora HirdFreddie FrintonBarbara MillerDavid MorrellArthur HowardBartlett Mullins
Written by
Ronald ChesneyRonald Wolfe
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About
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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Season 11964
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Season 21964
7.366
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Season 31965
—06
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Season 41965
—06
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Season 51966
—013
Full Cast & Crew
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
Barbara Keogh Betty the Barmaid, Betty, the Barmaid
Crew
Ronald Chesney
Ronald Wolfe
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