British Comedy Guide
British Comedy Guide
Nearest And Dearest. Image shows from L to R: Nellie Pledge (Hylda Baker), Eli Pledge (Jimmy Jewel). Copyright: Granada Television
Nearest And Dearest

Nearest And Dearest

  • TV sitcom
  • ITV1
  • 1968 - 1973
  • 45 episodes (7 series)

Sitcom about brother and sister, Eli and Nellie Pledge, forced to run a pickle factory together. Stars Hylda Baker, Jimmy Jewel, Joe Gladwin, Madge Hindle, Edward Malin and Bert Palmer

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Nearest And Dearest. Image shows from L to R: Eli Pledge (Jimmy Jewel), Nellie Pledge (Hylda Baker). Copyright: Hammer Film Productions Film

Nearest And Dearest

Spin-off from Granada's popular television sitcom about siblings Nellie and Eli Pledge running a pickle factory.

Not On Your Nellie. Nelie Pickersgill (Hylda Baker). Copyright: London Weekend Television / Rex TV

Not On Your Nellie

Nellie Pickersgill is a teetotaller, however she moves from Lancashire to London to help her father run a pub.

Spring & Autumn. Image shows from L to R: Betty Harris (Jo Warne), Brian Reid (Larry Martyn), Tommy Butler (Jimmy Jewel), Charlie Harris (Charlie Hawkins), Vera Reid (June Barry). Copyright: Thames Television TV

Spring & Autumn

Comedy about the friendship between a septuagenarian and a teenager, giving both a new chance and lease of life.

Curry & Chips. Arthur Blenkinsop (Eric Sykes). Copyright: London Weekend Television TV

Curry & Chips

Friction comes to a factory floor when a new, foreign employee begins work.

Odd Man Out. Neville Sutcliffe (John Inman). Copyright: Thames Television TV

Odd Man Out

Neville Suttcliffe owns a Blackpool fish and chip shop. When his estranged father dies, Neville inherits half of his seaside rock factory and moves south to run it.

A Jewel In The Comedy Crown. Jimmy Jewel. Copyright: BBC Radio

A Jewel In The Comedy Crown

A Radio 4 documentary in which Jason Manford pays tribute to Jimmy Jewel, the master of reinvention.

ITV1 logo. Credit: ITV TV

The Jewel And Warriss Scrapbook

1958 Sketch Show

BBC One. Copyright: BBC TV

The Jewel And Warriss Show

1956 Stand-Up

Carry On At Your Convenience. Image shows from L to R: Vic Spanner (Kenneth Cope), Willie (Geoffrey Hughes), Sid Plummer (Sid James). Copyright: Peter Rogers Productions Film

Carry On At Your Convenience

Sid James plays Sid Plummer, a works foreman struggling to bridge the gap between an unreasonable, strike-happy shop steward and a naive manager's son.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC TV

Spanner In The Works

Comedy Playhouse pilot starring Norman Rossington and Jimmy Jewel as the boss of a small engineering company and the workers' union shop-steward.

Our Hylda. Copyright: BBC Radio

Our Hylda

Poignant comedy drama about British TV's first female comedy star, Hylda Baker.

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