His Lordship Entertains

His Lordship Entertains was Ronnie Barker's second vehicle for his Lord Rustless character, first seen three years earlier in Hark at Barker on ITV. This time though, Rustless appeared in a series for BBC2. Hark at Barker had also included sketch inserts, whereas His Lordship Entertains was a sitcom.

His Lordship Entertains
Directed byHarold Snoad
StarringRonnie Barker
Josephine Tewson
David Jason
Mary Baxter
Moira Foot
Frank Gatliff
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of episodes7 (6 missing)
Production
ProducerHarold Snoad
Running time30 minutes
Release
Original networkBBC2
Original release5 June (1972-06-05) –
17 July 1972 (1972-07-17)

Set again in the aristocratic Chrome Hall, which had now become a hotel. It once more starred David Jason as the 100-year-old Dithers and Josephine Tewson as Mildred Bates, two actors who would continue to have a working relationships with Barker. In fact all of the regular cast reprised their roles from Hark at Barker.

Barker wrote all the scripts under the pseudonym Jonathan Cobbald.[1] He liked to refer to the show as "Fawlty Towers mark one" as it appeared on television three years before that other hotel bound sitcom.

Four episodes of the sitcom have been performed on stage by the University of Nottingham's New Theatre.

Archive status

For many years it was thought that the series had been entirely lost. However, the first episode of His Lordship Entertains, 'The Food Inspector', was recovered in 2009.[2] In addition the scripts were published in Ronnie Barker's anthology All I Ever Wrote.[3]

Cast

References
  1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/h/hislordshipenter_66600370.shtml
  2. "Missing Believed Wiped: Programme One". British Film Institute. Retrieved 7 January 2010.
  3. "Literature for "His Lordship Entertains"". IMDb. Retrieved 7 January 2010.
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