A Touch Of The Casanovas

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

Genre: Sitcom
Broadcast: 1975
Channel: ITV
Episodes: 1 Pilot
Starring: Frankie Howerd, Stuart Damon, Marguerite Hardiman, Leon Greene, John Cater, Patsy Rowlands, Madeline Smith, Roger Brierley and others
Writers: Sid Colin and Hugh Stuckey
Director: Michael Mills
Producer: Michael Mills

A coach lumbers down the road from Venice to Padua. Inside is Giacomo Casanova, intent on carrying out his latest female conquest, and up on the box is Fransisco, his body servant.

Casanova is on the run from the Doge of Venice, one of the most powerful men in the city. When Casanova proposes they swap identities, Fransisco finds that life isn't all roses for the infamous lover!

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The Up Pompeii! Family

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