Mrs Thursday
Mrs Thursday | |
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Genre | Comedy drama |
Created by | Ted Willis |
Starring | Kathleen Harrison Hugh Manning |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 3 |
No. of episodes | 38 |
Production | |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Production company | Associated Television |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 15 March 1966 22 December 1967 | –
Mrs Thursday is a British television comedy-drama produced by Associated Television. The series was devised by Ted Willis and featured scripts by Jack Rosenthal. It stars veteran British actress Kathleen Harrison as Alice Thursday, a Cockney charwoman who inherits £10 million and the controlling interest in a multinational company upon the death of her employer, as well as his Rolls-Royce and Mayfair mansion. Hugh Manning played Richard Hunter, Mrs. Thursday's butler, business advisor, and confidant. Reg Lye played Bill Lee.
Three series comprising a total of thirty-eight episodes of Mrs Thursday were produced. Series One (13 episodes) was broadcast between March 15 and June 7, 1966; Series Two (13 episodes) between 27 December 1966 and 20 March 1967; and Series Three (12 episodes) between 5 October and 22 December 1967.
Production
[edit]"The Train from Dunrich House" was partly filmed at Stapleford Park, and featured its miniature railway.
Commercial release
[edit]Series One is available on DVD. Series Two was released on DVD on 30 September 2013. Series Three, as of June, 2020, still hasn't been released.
Episode list
[edit]Series 1 (first broadcast March 15 – June 7, 1966)
- A Ride in a Rolls-Royce
- Call Me Madam
- Family Reunion
- Thursday's Child
- Honesty Is the Best Policy
- The Girl from Fuller Street
- The Canvas Jungle
- You Don't Have to Book for Buckingham Palace
- The Snows of Yesteryear
- Hunter's Moon
- The Full Dress Affair
- The Sitting Tenant
- Margate Comes But Once a Year
Series 2 (first broadcast December 27, 1966 – March 20, 1967)
- A Little of What You Fancy
- Changes Over the Counter
- The Train from Dunrich Station
- The Duke and I
- When My Boy Comes Home
- Only Washing and Babies
- We Don't Pay London Prices
- The Answer Is a Lemon
- No Tea for the Tallyman
- Up the Garden Path
- The Old School Tie Up
- A Matter of Time
- Charity Begins at the Ball
Series 3 (first broadcast October 5 – December 22, 1967)
- News of a Cruise
- All in the Same Boat
- The Sea, the Sea, the Open Sea
- When in Malaga
- Two of a Kind
- A Genuine Moorish Momento
- Spring Time for Hunter
- Alice Is at It Again
- In the Sea Air
- A Question of Being Entitled
- Everything in Concert
- We Bid You All Goodbye
External links
[edit]- Mrs Thursday at IMDb
- Mrs Thursday at Television Heaven Link says "No signal! This page has gone off-air"
- 1960s British drama television series
- ITV television dramas
- Black-and-white British television shows
- Television shows produced by Associated Television (ATV)
- British English-language television shows
- 1966 British television series debuts
- 1967 British television series endings
- Television shows shot at ATV Elstree Studios