Penned by Last of the Summer Wine creator Roy Clarke Mann's Best Friends stars Barry Stanton as the inheritor of a rambling old house along with its menagerie of strange animals... and even stranger humans! Also starring the scourge of HMP Slade Fulton MacKay with fellow Porridge veteran Patricia Brake BAFTA winner Liz Smith and Carry On stalwart Bernard Bresslaw this delightfully offbeat sitcom is made available here for the first time. When Henry Mann inherits The Laurels he also inherits its assorted resident oddballs who include ill-tempered alcoholic Duncan... blonde temptress Dolly Delights and several Chinese waiters. Then comes the arrival of retired Water Board official Hamish James Ordway a nosey parker and colossal fusspot with a flair for what he euphemistically calls 'organisation' - and Mann offers him free accommodation at The Laurels in returning for straightening out the chaos prevailing within... [show more]
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The complete series of the British sitcom created by Roy Clarke following the adventures of a man who inherits a dilapidated country house. When Henry Mann (Barry Stanton) takes possession of guest house The Laurels he also assumes responsibility for its staff and residents. From alcoholic Duncan (Bernard Bresslaw) to Dolly Delights (Patricia Brake), who is suspiciously popular with the men of the house, they are an unruly brood and Henry struggles to cope. Fortunately, Hamish Ordway (Fulton MacKay), an ex-Water Board official with a passion for poking his nose into other people's business, has just moved in and is only too happy to help Henry get a handle on events in the house...
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