Monday, November 17, 2014

Not In Front Of The Children + That's My Boy!

Not In Front Of The Children was a sitcom that ran for 37 episodes in the late 1960's. It was the first of what turned out to be a trilogy of shows featuring Wendy Craig as a harried mother and wife (except she started off the second one, And Mother Makes Three, as a widow and the third one, Butterflies, was really a comedy-drama more than a sitcom). Unfortunately, only 8 episodes survive today. 
Not in Front of the Children

That's My Boy! was a one-series sitcom that ran in 1963 starring Jimmy Clitheroe and was a TV adaptation of his very popular radio comedy, The Clitheroe Kid, which aired from 1957 to 1972 when Jimmy did himself in on the day of his mother's funeral. Jimmy was a man that never grew up. He was only 4'3" and was in his early 40's when this was filmed but had no problem playing the role of an 11 year old very convincingly. Derek Guyler of Please Sir! and Sykes fame played his father in this. After this show ran it spun off into another show called Just Jimmy. About 50 episodes were aired between 1964 and 1968 and, amazingly!, only one survives today - an episode called A Match For Jim. There is no good information "out there" on Just Jimmy and I have no idea when it is from, but it's the last file on the disc. Ironically, Mollie Sugden played his mother in Just Jimmy and in the early 80's she starred in her own sitcom called That's My Boy (no exclamation mark).
Jimmy Clitheroe

I've got quite a few episodes of The Clitheroe Kid as .mp3 files. I keep meaning to do some work on them. Clean them up with a Rane ME 60 equalizer. One of these days. Add it to the to way-too-long to do list.

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