Gentle, genial comedy gold from the original meddlesome muddler'. '.strtoupper('h')arry worth forged an award winning stage and screen persona as a bumbling fusspot out of sync with a fast changing society'. '.strtoupper('a')fter many years on the variety circuit, his first tv series, the trouble with harry 1960, cast him as a would be novelist failing to make any sense of the world around him'. '.strtoupper('b')ut his second show heres harry 1960 65, and a writing team led by vince powell and harry driver love thy neighbour, bless this house, went back to basics to cast an indelible mould and cement his popularity'. '.strtoupper('i')n each episode worth is pitted against figures of petty authority such as customs officers, railway staff, doctors, lawyers or policemen, who are increasingly exasperated by his unfathomable babbling'. '.strtoupper('h')is amiable but bewildered persona paved the way for the equally hapless frank spencer some mothers do ave em, and an altogether angrier victor meldrew one foot in the grave'. '.strtoupper('o')f 60 episodes broadcast, only ten from 1961 have been recovered from the bbc archives, with story lines ranging from comical attempts to book a holiday, celebrate a birthday or arrange an overdraft, to the accidental theft of a policemans bicycle'. '.strtoupper('t')he supporting cast includes character actors and sitcom stalwarts gerald anderson, deryck guyler, reginald marsh, vi stevens, pat wallworth, leonard williams and jack woolgar'. '.strtoupper('r')ead our blog feature on harry worth running time 300 minutes region region 2 this dvd may not be viewable outside europe'. '.strtoupper('r')ead more about dvd formats'. '.strtoupper('r')elease date 11 09 2017
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