I've mentioned this a few times in other threads long in the past - a long-forgotten BBC sitcom written by and starring the great Ronnie Barker.
Featuring the Lord Rustless character he was so fond of (originated in The Ronnie Barker Playhouse in 1968 and spun off into his own sitcom-cum-sketch show, Hark At Barker, 1969 - 70), its his third outing (1972) and sees the country pile of Chrome Hall turned into a country house hotel.
Frank Gatliff is the reliable butler, badger; underrated sitcom legend Josephine Tewson is Rustless's secretary/receptionist; and Sir David Jason is heavily disguised as the decrepit gardener and bellboy, Dithers.
All seven episodes were wiped by Auntie, but one was recovered in B&W from New Zealand 15 years ago. I was lucky enough to see it at the time at a Missing Believed Wiped screening and instantly loved it. The show is obviously quite a different beast to the likes of Porridge and Open All Hours, featuring more of the silly sauce and wordplay that Ronnie loved so much, and is a real delight.
The episode itself should prove of real interest to sitcom fans: it concerns the hotel's visitation by an inspector, and the staff hurriedly trying to find out his or her identity and put on the best show possible.
Wonderfully, colour restoration techniques have now progressed so much that the episode has been fully, comprehensively overhauled - and is going to be released on DVD! I was again lucky to be able to see a near-complete colourisation at 2021's Missing Believed Wiped, which looked quite remarkable, and it's now been finished.
Amazingly, the process is largely automated with AI: they feed in a high resolution scan of the black and white film, then give the computer reference points such as surviving colour still photography, and set it to work. Niggles can then be ironed out frame-by-frame by hand, making full-scale colour restoration of this type a very real possibility for mass archive upgrades in future.
Full story here on the DVD: https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/6801/his-lordship-entertains-on-dvd/
It's £19.99, so quite pricey for a single episode, but well worth it IMO. The price reflects the amount of love and work that's gone into it, and it's issued by Kaleidoscope, the primary organisation for finding, recovering and restoring lost television programmes, so even whatever cut is profit is going to a very good place. I can't wait to see it again.