British Comedy Guide

The Misfit

  • TV sitcom
  • ITV1
  • 1970 - 1971
  • 13 episodes (2 series)

'Badger' Allenby-Johnson has returned to England after living and working as a Malayan rubber planter - and he doesn't care for the changes he finds at the end of the 1960s. Stars Ronald Fraser, Simon Ward, Susan Carpenter and Patrick Newell.

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Key details

Genre
Sitcom
Broadcast
1970 - 1971
Channel
ITV
Episodes
13 (2 series)
Stars
Ronald Fraser, Simon Ward, Susan Carpenter and Patrick Newell
Directors
James Gatward and Dennis Vance
Producer
Dennis Vance
Writer
Roy Clarke
Company

Fifty-year-old Basil Allenby-Johnson, nicknamed 'Badger' during his many years of rubber planting in Malaya, returns to live with his son, Ted, and daughter-in-law, Alicia, in 1970s London.

While in the Orient, the permissive society has by-passed Badger, rendering him shocked and bewildered on arrival back in the old country. The liberal and open-minded attitudes of his hosts are equally baffling.

In the second series he links up with his brother, Stanley, but wherever he goes, Badger is a complete misfit.

Additional details

Production
Studio
Picture
Colour

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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Tuesday 3rd March 1970 at 9pm on ITV1

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