
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 1974
- Channel
- ITV
- Episodes
- 8 (1 series)
- Starring
- John Thaw, Bob Hoskins, Pat Ashton and Johnny Briggs
- Writers
- Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais
- Director
- Derrick Goodwin
- Producer
- Derrick Goodwin
Having served a three-year jail sentence, small-time house burglar George Dobbs (Bob Hoskins) is released from prison one day earlier than expected.
But when he arrives back at his Fulham terraced house, it is his best friend and fellow crook, Stan (John Thaw), who opens the door - topless, his face covered in shaving foam, and wearing Dobbs's pyjama bottoms!
It's immediately apparent that while Dobbs has been 'doing time', Stan has been 'doing his missus'. However, wife Annie has affections for both men; a reluctant agreement is reached, and a delicate ménage-à-trois develops...
- Production company
- Soundtrack
- Theme music by Mike Hugg and Ian La Frenais.
- Laugh track
- Live audience
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Saturday 1st June 1974 on ITV at 8:30pm
- Last new broadcast
- Saturday 20th July 1974 on ITV at 8:45pm
- Length of episodes
- 25 minutes