Meet the Larkins: hen-pecked but crafty Alf and his domineering wife Ada (played to perfection by BAFTA winner David Kossoff and TV battleaxe par excellence Peggy Mount), aimless son Eddie, daughter Joyce, and ex-GI son-in-law Jeff. The entire family spends the first four series of this classic early ATV sitcom in a state falling somewhat short of domestic bliss at 66 Sycamore Street, East London; series five and six see Alf and Ada upping sticks to run a little caf� and B&B, with former nei...
After being shot on duty DI Crabbe decides to retires from the police force to set up his own restaurant 'Pie In The Sky'. While he would much rather be left to his own devices in the kitchen he is constantly called back on duty by his needy ex-boss Chief Constable Fisher (Malcolm Sinclair).
Following the nationalisation of transport in 1948 the British Transport Commission set up its own in-house film production unit which became one of the largest industrial film units in Britain. This 18-disc box set features all 9 volumes of the BFI's celebrated British Transport Films Collection and illustrates the wide range of subjects the BTF covered. Included here are travel classics such as Terminus Blue Pullman and John Betjemen Goes By Train. Each film has been remastered from the finest quality materials available.
Meet the Larkins - the put-upon but crafty Alf his domineering wife Ada son Eddie daughter Joyce and her American ex-GI husband Jeff a barely employable writer of stories for cowboy comic The Bullet . They all live in a state that falls somewhat short of domestic bliss at 66 Sycamore Street in a suburb of London next to inquisitive neighbour Hetty and her family. This classic early ATV sitcom was created by Clapham-born Fred Robinson and based upon his youthful scripts for plays about a fictional Cockney family. With skilful comic playing from a renowned cast and a script that ATV production controller Bill Ward described as the funniest he had ever read The Larkins inspired great affection throughout its run between 1958 and 1964. This fourth series was first screened in 1960 and all episodes have been transferred from the original film telerecordings specifically for this release.
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