British Comedy Guide

Rosie

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC One
  • 1977 - 1981
  • 27 episodes (4 series)

Following The Growing Pains Of PC Penrose, the young policeman is posted to his home-town, where none of his friends of family take his job seriously. Stars Paul Greenwood, Tony Haygarth, Penny Leatherbarrow, Paul Luty, Frankie Jordan and more.

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Key details

Genre
Sitcom
Broadcast
1977 - 1981
Channel
BBC 1
Episodes
27 (4 series)
Stars
Paul Greenwood, Tony Haygarth, Penny Leatherbarrow, Paul Luty, Frankie Jordan, Maggie Jones, Donald McKillop, Allan Surtees and more
Writer
Roy Clarke
Director
Bernard Thompson
Producer
Bernard Thompson
Company

PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose is given a compassionate move back to his home town of Ravens Bay, to be near his 'invalid' mother, Millie. He now resides with his flighty mum at his Auntie Ida's house, where his Uncle Norman spends most of his time in the garden (whether he likes it or not).

At work, Rosie is paired with PC Wilmot, a more experienced but also more reckless bobby whom Rosie often has to bail out of trouble and protect from the clutches of WPC Whatmough. Cigar-puffing Chief Inspector Dunwoody is their no-nonsense boss and Merv their short-sighted, inept supergrass.

Rosie also has a girlfriend, the demanding, clinging Gillian, whose snooty, factory-owning dad has little time for her PC boyfriend.

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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Wednesday 5th January 1977 at 7:40pm on BBC One

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