Rosie

About

Rosie is a British situation-comedy television series, written by Roy Clarke that was broadcast between 1977 and 1981. It was filmed and set in Scarborough in North Yorkshire. The central character was PC Penrose, the titular "Rosie", a young and inexperienced police officer, played by Paul Greenwood. For the first series of seven episodes, broadcast in 1975, it was called The Growing Pains of PC Penrose, but it underwent a revamp with a new title, setting and signature tune.

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Cast

Paul Greenwood PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose

Tony Haygarth PC Wilmot

Lorraine Peters Aunt Ida

Frankie Jordan Gillian Chiselhurst

Penny Leatherbarrow WPC Brenda Whatmough

Allan Surtees Uncle Norman

Paul Luty Chief Inspector Dunwoody

Avril Elgar Millie Penrose

Maggie Jones Glenda

Don McKillop Bill

Crew

Roy Clarke

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