Cheap At Half The Price
- TV sitcom
- ITV1
- 1972
- 1 pilot
Antique dealer Jimmy Wilcox finds his ambitions thwarted by his dim-witted assistant Charlie, his long-suffering wife Madge and his own incompetence. Stars Roy Kinnear, Doug Fisher, Joan Peart, Paul Haley, Marjie Lawrence and Raymond Mason
Key details
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 1972
- Channel
- ITV
- Episodes
- 1 Pilot
- Stars
- Roy Kinnear, Doug Fisher, Joan Peart, Paul Haley, Marjie Lawrence and Raymond Mason
- Writers
- Vince Powell and Harry Driver
- Director
- Les Chatfield
- Producer
- Les Chatfield
- Company
Jimmy Wilcox is a budding antiques dealer and the proprietor of the Treasure House in London's Chelsea. Whilst he thinks of himself as a philosopher and raconteur, he is also the unfortunate employer of Charlie, a dim-witted assistant. A dutiful husband to Madge, his long-suffering wife, he is doomed to fail thanks to his own magnificent incompetence.
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- Studio
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Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Monday 22nd May 1972 at 8:30pm on ITV1
- Episode length
- 25 minutes