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Hugh And I

UK, BBC, Sitcom, B/W, 1962

Starring: Terry Scott, Hugh Lloyd, Vi Stevens

Series One - Episode Two

A Brace Of Peasants


Broadcast on the BBC Television Service, Tuesday, 24th July 1962, 8.45pm

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GENERAL SERIES BACKGROUND AND SYNOPSIS


A fondly remembered and long-running sitcom that reunited Terry Scott and Hugh Lloyd, who had worked together on stage many years earlier. The episodes were built around a simple but durable premise: at his mother's house at 33 Lobelia Avenue, Tooting, in south London (Citizen Smith, a decade later, was also set in Tooting), Scott is a rather hopeless youngish bachelor who aspires to wealth, a situation he would prefer to achieve without hard work, continually dreaming up grandiose schemes that he then seeks to explore. The more downbeat and slight Lloyd, meanwhile, is the family's lodger, who, while a trifle dozy, at least brings some money into the house courtesy of his job at a local factory. Although in no way a direct parody of Laurel and Hardy, the relationship - and physical characteristics - of the two lead players was reminiscent of the great film comics, and their friendship was often tested to its limits when the gullible Lloyd was led into one misadventure after another by Scott's boisterous and usually blind enthusiasms. 


By the end of the fifth series the series' principals decided to bring it to an end, but when the BBC asked for more they decided to continue but with new settings, ending the suburban domestic sagas and introducing different backdrops. (At this point, Scott's screen mum, and her Lobelia Avenue neighbours - the Crispins and the Wormolds - left the cast.) With Hugh having won £5000, a small fortune in 1966, on the Premium Bonds, a sixth series showed the pair undertaking a world cruise. The seventh - its revised title punning the US adventure series I Spy, then airing in the UK on ITV - found the mismatched twosome returned from their globetrotting but embroiled in a variety of comedy adventures, each episode ending in a cliffhanger. 


Notes. A single-episode radio adaptation of Hugh And I was broadcast by the BBC Light Programme on 13 June 1963. 


After Hugh And I, Scott and Lloyd continued to work together from time to time, and they headlined a TV pantomime performance of Robin Hood that was screened by BBC1 on Christmas Day 1973.


Researched and written by Mark Lewisohn.


Cast 

Terry Scott - Terry Scott 

Hugh Lloyd - Hugh Lloyd 

Vi Stevens - Mrs Scott (series 1-5)

Wallas Eaton - Mr Crispin (series 1-5)

Mollie Sugden - Mrs Crispin (series 1-5)

Cyril Smith - Arthur Wormold (series 1)

Jack Haig - Arthur Wormold (series 2-5)

Patricia Hayes - Mrs Wormold (series 1-5)


Crew 

John Chapman - Writer 

John Junkin - Additional Material 

David Croft - Producer (series 1-5, specials, series 7)

Duncan Wood - Producer (series 6)


Transmission Details 

Number of episodes: 79 Length: 40 x 25 mins · 37 x 30 mins · 2 x short specials

Series One (9 x 30 mins) 17 July-11 Sep 1962 · Tue 8.45pm

Series Two (12 x 25 mins) 21 May-6 Aug 1963 · Tue 8pm

Short special · part of Christmas Night With The Stars 25 Dec 1963 · Wed 8.05pm

Series Three (14 x 25 mins) 4 Jan-18 Jan; 22 Feb-15 May 1964 · BBC1 Sat around 9pm

Short special · part of Christmas Night With The Stars 25 Dec 1964 · BBC1 Fri 7.15pm

Series Four (14 x 25 mins) 3 Jan-11 Apr 1965 · BBC1 Sun 7.25pm

Series Five (14 x 30 mins) 3 Jan-4 Apr 1966 · BBC1 Mon 7.30pm

Series Six (8 x 30 mins) 29 Nov 1966-17 Jan 1967 · BBC1 Tue 7.30pm

Series Seven (6 x 30 mins) Hugh And I Spy 22 Jan-26 Feb 1968 · BBC1 Mon 7.30pm


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