Meet The Wife
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 1963 - 1966
- 39 episodes (5 series)
Domestic sitcom following working-class northern couple Freddie and Thora Blacklock, a plumber and proud housewife. Stars Thora Hird and Freddie Frinton.
Meet The Wife - Series 1-5 The Surviving Episodes
One of the BBC's earliest domestic sitcoms, Meet The Wife affectionately dissects the trials and comforts of mid-life marriage after the kids have flown the nest.
Written by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe, and running to five series from 1963 to 1966, the series was immortalised in The Beatles' Good Morning Good Morning: "It's time for tea and Meet The Wife".
Thora and Fred Blacklock (Thora Hird and Freddie Frinton) are a middle-aged couple in the north of England, just about managing to make ends meet. Fred is an amiable, hard-working plumber who likes a bet and a pint on the way home, while Thora is an incessant talker with ideas of improving the couple's social standing. Although happy to chatter at Fred in her normal northern accent, in company or on the phone she unfailingly puts on her posh voice - much to Fred's annoyance.
Despite Thora's limitless pickiness and bickering - usually over the most trivial things - there's genuine affection between the pair, and Fred's patience rarely reaches breaking point. It's a partnership that struck a chord with the British public, and confrmed Hird as the nation's favourite comic actress.
Includes the pilot episode and 16 surviving episodes from the series.
First released: Monday 24th October 2016
DVD- Distributor: Simply Media
- Region: 2
- Discs: 3
- Minutes: 400
- Catalogue: 166442
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