17:35 – Sheepy’s opening music.
17:40 – Thames TV morning start-up music.
17:45 – Only When I Laugh – S02E02 – Where There’s a Will – A sitcom made by Yorkshire Television for ITV, written by Eric Chappell (Rising Damp, Home to Roost). It stars Christopher Strauli as Norman, a rather naive middle-class man who is admitted to a hospital ward and finds that he is sharing it with a working-class layabout called Figgis (James Bolam) and an upper-class hypochondriac called Archie (Peter Bowles). All three of them cause headaches for the hospital staff, led by Richard Wilson with Derrick Branche. This week, Glover does not take kindly to eccentric new patient Joe Perkins – with his invisible dog – due to his lack of hygiene and use of Glover’s drinking tumbler for his false teeth. However when he discovers that Joe’s tin box contains a fortune and the man is considering changing his will, Glover – and Norman – both fawn on him to get into his good books. First broadcast on Tue 6th May 1980 by ITV. Guest-starring Patrick Troughton!
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