| His Lordship Entertains | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Harold Snoad |
| Starring | Ronnie Barker Josephine Tewson David Jason Mary Baxter Moira Foot Frank Gatliff |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 7 (6 missing) |
| Production | |
| Producer | Harold Snoad |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC2 |
| Release | 5 June – 17 July 1972 |
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His Lordship Entertains, broadcast in 1972, was Ronnie Barker's second vehicle for his Lord Rustless character, first seen three years earlier in Hark at Barker on ITV. This time though, Rustless appeared in a series for BBC2. Hark at Barker had also included sketch inserts, whereas His Lordship Entertains was a sitcom.
Set again in the aristocratic Chrome Hall, which had now become a hotel. It once more starred David Jason as the 100-year-old Dithers and Josephine Tewson as Mildred Bates, two actors who would continue to have a working relationships with Barker. In fact all of the regular cast reprised their roles from Hark at Barker.
Barker wrote all the scripts under the pseudonym Jonathan Cobbald.[1] He liked to refer to the show as "Fawlty Towers mark one" as it appeared on television three years before that other hotel bound sitcom.
Four episodes of the sitcom have been performed on stage by the University of Nottingham's New Theatre.