Meet the Wife (TV series)

Meet the Wife
Freddie Frinton & Thora Hird
GenreSitcom
Created byChesney and Wolfe
StarringFreddie Frinton
Thora Hird
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of series5
No. of episodes39 (including pilot; 22 missing)
Production
Running time30 minutes
Original release
NetworkBBC1
Release28 December 1963 (1963-12-28) –
19 December 1966 (1966-12-19)
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Meet the Wife is a 1960s BBC sitcom written by Chesney and Wolfe, which featured Freddie Frinton as Freddie Blacklock with Thora Hird as his tyrannical wife, Thora. It ran for five series.[1]

The series was based on a 1963 BBC television Comedy Playhouse production, "The Bed".[2] The theme tune was by Russ Conway and incidental music by Norman Percival and later Dennis Wilson. The producers were John Paddy Carstairs and later Robin Nash.[3]

  1. ^ "BFI Screenonline: Chesney, Ronald (1920–) and Wolfe, Ronald (1924–2011) Credits". Screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
  2. ^ "The Bed (1963) | BFI". Explore.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 7 June 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
  3. ^ "Meet The Wife (Production)". Phill.co.uk. Retrieved 4 June 2014.