In Loving Memory (TV series)
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| In Loving Memory | |
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 Thora Hird and Christopher Beeny |
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Creator(s) | Dick Sharples |
| Starring | Thora Hird Christopher Beeny Colin Farrell Avis Bunnage Sherrie Hewson and Rose Power |
| Country of origin | UK |
| No. of episodes | 36 x 30 mins, 1 x 30 min pilot. |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Thames Television |
| Running time | 30 minutes per episode |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ITV |
| Original run | May 21, 1979 – March 27, 1986 |
In Loving Memory was a period piece ITV sitcom that was set in an undertakers business. It ran for 5 series between 1979 and 1986. It was made for the ITV network by Yorkshire Television. A pilot episode of the show was made by Thames Television for the ITV network in 1969
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[edit] Premise
The year is 1929 and in the opening episode Jeremiah Unsworth (Freddie Jones), the proprietor of the undertakes, dies. This leaves his widow Ivy (Thora Hird) and gormless nephew Billy (Christopher Beeny) to take over the business.
As might be expected, the accident prone Ivy and Billy have numerous mishaps, and hardly a funeral goes by without something untoward occurring.
The setting for the show is the fictional Lancashire town of Oldshaw during the 1930s. The writer Dick Sharples chose this period as this was the time when undertakers were switching from horse drawn hearses to mechanical ones.
[edit] Trivia
- The pilot for the show aired on November 4, 1969, it was almost ten years later until the first series was commissioned.
- Luddenden, Yorkshire was where the location shooting took place.
- That's Your Funeral was a sitcom based on a similar premise, but it only lasted for one series.
- Thora Hird and Dick Sharples worked together on another ITV comedy series, Hallelujah!, which ran concurrently with In Loving Memory.
[edit] Transmission dates
Pilot (B&W)
(1 x 30 min)Nov 4 1969 · Tues 8.30pm
Series One
(7 x 30 min) May 21-July 2 1979 · Mon mostly 8pm
Series Two
(7 x 30 min) 27 Oct-8 Dec 1980 · Mon 8pm
Series Three
(7 x 30 min) 12 Oct-23 Nov 1982 · Tue 8.30pm
Special
24 Dec 1982 · Fri 8pm
Series Four
(7 x 30 min) 28 Nov 1983-6 Feb 1984 · Mon 8pm
Series Five
(7 x 30 min) 13 Feb-27 Mar 1986 · Thu 9pm
