In the period after The Likely Lads had finished but before Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads had begun, the star Rodney Bewes did a bit of a Dennis Waterman in this sitcom, Dear Mother Love Albert: he starred in it as Albert, wrote it, and also wrote the theme tune (I don't think he sang the theme tune though).
The first series was in monochrome and hasn't survived in the archives.
The second and third series was made in colour and went over from Thames to Yorkshire Television. All has survived.
Albert's love interest was played firstly by Liz Gebhardt (Maureen Bullock from Please Sir!) and later the same character was played by future Citizen Smith star Cheryl Hall.
It then got a spin off, titled just Albert.
Network have recently released all the surviving episodes from both programmes. I ordered it and by my calculations it should be here tomorrow. Has anybody seen it and/or got an opinion about the show?
