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  3. The Up Pompeii! Family

The Up Pompeii! Family

A number of popular comedies starring Frankie Howerd, based on the format first established in Up Pompeii!.


Up Pompeii!. Lurcio (Frankie Howerd). Copyright: BBC / London Weekend Television.TV

Up Pompeii! (1969)

Frankie Howerd starrs as Lurcio, a Roman slave in Pompeii, serving senator Ludicrus Sextus and his family.

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Whoops Baghdad. Frankie Howerd. Copyright: BBC.TV

Whoops Baghdad (1973)

Frankie Howerd is Ali Oopla, servant to the Wazir of Baghdad, in the double entendre-laden Whoops Baghdad.

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A Touch Of The Casanovas. Fransisco (Frankie Howerd). Copyright: Thames Television.TV

A Touch Of The Casanovas (1975)

When Fransisco (Frankie Howerd), body servant to Giacomo Casanova, swaps identities with his master, trouble is bound to follow.

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Then Churchill Said To Me. Private Potts (Frankie Howerd). Copyright: BBC.TV

Then Churchill Said To Me (1993)

Frankie Howerd sitcom, bringing the much-loved Up Pompeii! format up to the Second World War.

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Up Pompeii. Image shows from L to R: Ammonia (Barbara Murray), Lurcio (Frankie Howerd), Ludicrus Sextus (Michael Hordern). Copyright: Associated London Films Limited.Film

Up Pompeii (1971)

Classic British farce in which Roman slave Lurcio unwittingly gains possession of a list of people who are conspiring to bring down the Emperor Nero.

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Up The Chastity Belt. Copyright: Anglo-EMI / Associated London Films Limited.Film

Up The Chastity Belt (1971)

Film in which Frankie Howerd joins the Crusades to save his master and bring King Richard back to take his rightful place on the throne of England.

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Up The Front.Film

Up The Front (1972)

Frankie Howerd plays a servant who is hypnotised into believing that he is the only man who can save England during World War I.

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