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In Loving Memory. Image shows from L to R: Billy Henshaw (Christopher Beeny), Ivy Unsworth (Thora Hird). Copyright: Rex
In Loving Memory

In Loving Memory

  • TV sitcom
  • ITV1
  • 1969 - 1986
  • 37 episodes (5 series)

Comedy about an auntie and nephew, Ivy and Billy, who run a family undertakers' business in 1920s Yorkshire. Stars Thora Hird, Christopher Beeny, Colin Farrell, Avis Bunnage, Sherrie Hewson and more.

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Press clippings

Yorkshire have done Lancashire-between-the-wars proud with black lead grates, Fair Isle sweaters, cobbles and canals, and Dick Sharples has written the script with great vivacity and fidelity.

Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 22nd May 1979

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