Queenie's Castle
- TV sitcom
- ITV1
- 1970 - 1972
- 18 episodes (3 series)
Queenie Shepherd is the self-styled ruler of Buckingham Flats and any dissenters will find plenty of trouble from her and her three sons. Stars Diana Dors, Tony Caunter, Barrie Rutter, Freddie Fletcher, Brian Marshall and more.
Press clippings
"Queenie's Castle" (Yorkshire) was never anything but a hopeful twinkle in the eye of Waterhouse and Hall. Lacking them, this second series is even more bleary and bloodshot.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 2nd August 1972Queenie's Castle has a certain native vigour which is dissipated by the fact that the queen herself lacks natural authority. Diana Dors's basic gentility and backhanders with a handbag are no substitute for the required basilisk eye and blistering tongue.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 4th December 1970One must grant "Queenie's Castle" (Yorkshire) a kind of courage. The Shepherd family in general, and Queenie in particular have positively no redeeming features. A drunken, thieving, common burden of the Welfare State, giving the place a bad name, lowering the tone of the neighbourhood, their only glory is their buoyancy.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 6th November 1970