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The Up Pompeii! Family

A number of popular comedies starring Frankie Howerd, based on the format first established in Up Pompeii!.

Up Pompeii!. Lurcio (Frankie Howerd). Copyright: BBC / London Weekend Television TV

Up Pompeii!

Frankie Howerd starrs as Lurcio, a Roman slave in Pompeii, serving senator Ludicrus Sextus and his family.

Up Pompeii. Image shows from L to R: Ammonia (Barbara Murray), Lurcio (Frankie Howerd), Ludicrus Sextus (Michael Hordern). Copyright: Associated London Films Limited Film

Up Pompeii

Classic British farce in which Roman slave Lurcio unwittingly gains possession of a list of people who are conspiring to bring down the Emperor Nero.

Up The Chastity Belt. Lurkalot (Frankie Howerd). Copyright: Associated London Films Limited Film

Up The Chastity Belt

Film in which Frankie Howerd joins the Crusades to save his master and bring King Richard back to take his rightful place on the throne of England.

Up The Front. Image shows from L to R: Lurk (Frankie Howerd), Groping (Bill Fraser). Copyright: Associated London Films Limited / STUDIOCANAL Film

Up The Front

Frankie Howerd plays a servant who is hypnotised into believing that he is the only man who can save England during World War I.

Whoops Baghdad. Ali Oopla (Frankie Howerd). Copyright: BBC TV

Whoops Baghdad

Frankie Howerd is Ali Oopla, servant to the Wazir of Baghdad, in this double entendre-laden sitcom.

A Touch Of The Casanovas. Fransisco (Frankie Howerd). Copyright: Thames Television TV

A Touch Of The Casanovas

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

Then Churchill Said To Me. Private Potts (Frankie Howerd). Copyright: BBC TV

Then Churchill Said To Me

Frankie Howerd sitcom, bringing the much-loved Up Pompeii! format up to the Second World War.

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