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Bless This House is a 1972 British comedy film directed by Gerald Thomas starring Sid James, Diana Coupland, Terry Scott, June Whitfield and Peter Butterworth. [1] It is a spin-off from the television sitcom Bless This House .
Bless This House is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 2 February 1971 to 22 April 1976, with a total of 65 episodes. Starring Sid James and Diana Coupland , it was created by Vince Powell and Harry Driver , but mainly written by other hands including Dave Freeman and Carla Lane .
During the course of the programme, 65 episodes of Bless This House aired over six series, between 2 February 1971 and 22 April 1976. [1] Four days after Bless This House ended with the 13th and final-ever episode of the sixth series, Sid James died from a heart attack after collapsing while on stage at the Sunderland Empire Theatre, aged 62.
She is the author of the children's series Nurse Matilda, which Emma Thompson adapted to film as Nanny McPhee . Her Inspector Cockrill short stories and a previously unpublished Cockrill stage play were collected as The Spotted Cat and Other Mysteries from Inspector Cockrill's Casebook , edited by Tony Medawar (2002).
Betty Diana Coupland (5 March 1928 [1] – 10 November 2006), billed as Diana Coupland, was an English actress and singer, best remembered for her role, which she played from 1971 to 1976, in the sitcom Bless This House, as Jean Abbott, wife of Sid James's character Sid.
The show was ranked first on a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, [100] and in 2019 it was named the greatest ever British TV sitcom by a panel of comedy experts compiled by the Radio Times. [101] Basil Fawlty has been listed by Channel 4 as the second greatest television ...
Bless This House may refer to: Bless This House (UK TV series), a 1971–1976 British sitcom Bless This House, a 1972 film spin-off of the above; Bless This House (U.S. TV series), a 1995–1996 American sitcom "Bless This House" (song), a 1927 song written by Helen Taylor
Robin Stewart (9 October 1946 – 22 November 2015) [2] was an English actor, game show host and reporter who was best known for playing Mike Abbott, the son of Sid James' character Sid Abbott in the 1970s sitcom Bless This House.