Love Thy Neighbour. Image shows from L to R: Eddie Booth (Jack Smethurst), Bill Reynolds (Rudolph Walker). Copyright: Thames Television
Still Loving Thy Neighbour?
- Radio documentary
- BBC Radio 4
- 2016
- 1 episode
Mark Hodkinson revisits the controversial ITV sitcom Love Thy Neighbour, forty years after it was last shown on TV. Also features Jack Smethurst, Lemn Sissay, Linton Kwesi Johnson, David Hinds, Gina Yashere and more.
Press clippings
'Work dried up after Love Thy Neighbour'
He was the star of one of the biggest sitcoms of the Seventies, seen by up to 17 million viewers a week.
But after starring as racist suburbanite Eddie Booth in Love Thy Neighbour Jack Smethurst found it so hard to get work that he ended up working in a flower shop.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 19th September 2016