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

A Touch Of The Casanovas

  • TV sitcom
  • ITV1
  • 1975
  • 1 pilot

When Fransisco (Frankie Howerd), body servant to Giacomo Casanova, swaps identities with his master, trouble is bound to follow. Also features Stuart Damon, Marguerite Hardiman, Leon Greene, John Cater, Patsy Rowlands and more.

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A Touch Of The Casanovas trivia

Frankie Howerd himself devised the programme and its setting, based on the earlier success of Up Pompeii!.

The TV Times covering this pilot's broadcast implied that a series was already firmly under-way: "a Casanova series ... will be screened next year."

Source: TV Times, 20th December 1975 - 2nd January 1976

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