Rosie (TV series)

Rosie
Genre	Situation comedy
Starring	Paul Greenwood Tony Haygarth Frankie Jordan Penny Leatherbarrow Paul Luty Avril Elgar (series 1–3) Patricia Neale (series 4) Lorraine Peters Allan Surtees
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. of series	4 (did not air in 1980)
No. of episodes	27
Production
Location(s)	Scarborough, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC1
Original run	5 January 1977 (1977-01-05) – 30 October 1981 (1981-10-30)
Chronology
Related shows	The Growing Pains of PC Penrose (1975) (7 episodes)

Rosie is a British situation-comedy television series, written by Roy Clarke that was broadcast between 1977 and 1981. It was filmed and set in Scarborough in North Yorkshire. The central character was PC Penrose, the titular "Rosie", a young and inexperienced police officer, played by Paul Greenwood.

For the first series of seven episodes, broadcast in 1975, it was called The Growing Pains of PC Penrose, but it underwent a revamp with a new title, setting and signature tune.

Contents 1 Cast 2 Episodes 2.1 Series 1 2.2 Series 2 2.3 Series 3 2.4 Series 4 3 DVD release 4 External links

Cast

• Paul Greenwood as PC 'Rosie' Penrose
• Tony Haygarth as PC Wilmot
• Frankie Jordan as Gillian
• Penny Leatherbarrow as WPC Brenda Whatmough
• Paul Luty as Chief Inspector Dunwoody
• Avril Elgar as Millie Penrose (series 1–3)
• Patricia Neale as Millie Penrose (series 4)
• Lorraine Peters as Aunt Ida
• Allan Surtees as Uncle Norman

Episodes

(first airdate in parentheses)

Series 1

• "Woman Pressure" (5 January 1977)
• "A Smile from Antonio" (12 January 1977)
• "I Wish They Wouldn't Call Me Son" (19 January 1977)
• "Sunday" (26 January 1977)
• "Wholesale Fish" (2 February 1977)
• "The Cheese and Wine" (9 February 1977)

Series 2

• "Mirror, Mirror on the Floor" (18 May 1978)
• "Wilmot Gets a Bad Case of Big Cyril's Second Wife" (25 May 1978)
• "Wilmot Gets an Even Worse Case of Big Cyril's Second Wife" (1 June 1978)
• "The Eyes of the Law" (8 June 1978)
• "Complications" (15 June 1978)
• "Further Complications" (22 June 1978)
• "Our Intrepid Birdmen" (29 June 1978)

Series 3

• "Those Wonderful People in the C.I.D." (7 June 1979)
• "Free Sample" (14 June 1979)
• "The Worm that Turns Us All" (21 June 1979)
• "Happy Birthday, Mr Chizlehurst" (28 June 1979)
• "Looking for Herbie" (5 July 1979)
• "Turn Left at the Parrot" (12 July 1979)
• "A Day in the Country" (19 July 1979)

Series 4

• "Tune on a Silent Dog Whistle" (18 September 1981)
• "Arresting Gordon by Instalments" (25 September 1981)
• "You're Beautiful, Miss Parkinson" (2 October 1981)
• "The Eight-Foot Goat" (9 October 1981)
• "Big Night at Freezi-Pops" (16 October 1981)
• "An Informer for Engelbert" (23 October 1981)
• "Caught in the Act" (30 October 1981)

DVD release

The complete series (seven episodes) of The Growing Pains of PC Penrose was released on DVD in 2007; However as of August 2011^[update], Rosie has not yet been released.

External links

• Rosie at the Internet Movie Database
• The Growing Pains of PC Penrose at the Internet Movie Database

The works of Roy Clarke Situation comedies The Misfit (1970-71) Last of the Summer Wine (1973-2010) Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt! (pilot, 1974) Open All Hours (1973, 1976-85) The Growing Pains Of PC Penrose (1975) Rosie (1977-81) Potter (1979-83) The Magnificent Evans (1984) First of the Summer Wine (1988-89) Keeping Up Appearances (1990-95) Ain't Misbehavin' (1994-95) Other The Bass Player and the Blonde (1977) Hawks (1988) The Sharp End (1991) A Foreign Field (1993)