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Meet the Wife

1963 – 1966 · BBC One
5 seasons · 38 episodes
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Meet the Wife is a 1960s BBC situation comedy written by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe, which featured Freddie Frinton as Freddie Blacklock with Thora Hird as his tyrannical wife, Thora. It ran to five series. The series was based on a 1963 BBC television Comedy Playhouse production, "The Bed". 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. The Beatles song "Good Morning, Good Morning" on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band includes the lyric "It's time for tea and Meet the Wife".

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Thora Hird
Barbara Miller
Mrs. Bird

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Status
Ended
Type
Scripted
First aired
Dec 28, 1963
Original language
EN
Country
GB

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