Stay Lucky

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Stay Lucky is a 1989–1992 Yorkshire Television series starring Dennis Waterman and Jan Francis. The title, which referred to nothing in particular, was somewhat indicative of the series' problems as a whole. Like The Sweeney and Minder, Stay Lucky concerned a partnership, although in this instance one that was romantic as well as professional. Set aboard a houseboat, the series concerned a set of predictable oppositions between male and female leads—Waterman as Thomas and Jan Francis as Sally. He was a Cockney, hard, street-wise and realistic; as a Northerner, she was glamorous, sophisticated and headstrong.

Stay Lucky attempted to mix the comedy of the sexes with the darker world of London crime and poverty but the mixture did not quite jell. However the series was at its strongest when it gravitated to the former theme, with Waterman usually generating solid comic exasperation, not at the outrageous schemes of an Arthur Daley, but at the outlandish stratagems of a wilful, attractive woman.

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• Dennis Waterman - Museum website