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Leave It To Charlie. Image shows from L to R: Charlie Fisher (David Roper), Arthur Simister (Peter Sallis). Copyright: Granada Television / Rex
Leave It To Charlie

Leave It To Charlie

  • TV sitcom
  • ITV1
  • 1978 - 1980
  • 26 episodes (4 series)

Life for Charlie Fisher, a Lancastrian insurance agent, is littered with one disaster after another. Stars David Roper, Peter Sallis, Gwen Cherrell, Jean Heywood, Sally Kinghorn and more.

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Key details

Genre
Sitcom
Broadcast
1978 - 1980
Channel
ITV
Episodes
26 (4 series)
Stars
David Roper, Peter Sallis, Gwen Cherrell, Jean Heywood, Sally Kinghorn, David Ross and John Horsley
Writer
H.V. Kershaw
Director
Eric Prytherch
Producer
Eric Prytherch
Company

Charlie Fisher is an insurance salesman; young, cheerful, optimistic, and starting a new job in a Northern town. For some reason - perhaps because of his air of invincible optimism - Charlie is the sort of person other people depend on, from the little old lady he gives a lift home who becomes his landlady, to his gloomy pessimist of a boss, Arthur Simister, who is possessed of a wife so vague she can't remember his name and a deliciously dizzy secretary.

In Leave It To Charlie, written by HV Kershaw, Charlie finds himself called on to do everything, from looking over an elderly bachelor to assess his future 'prospects' as a husband to starring in the local amateur theatrical production.

Additional details

Production
Studio
Camera set-up
Multi-camera
Picture
Colour

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Thursday 13th July 1978 at 7:15pm on ITV1

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