You're Only Young Twice

You're Only Young Twice
Genre	Comedy
Created by	Michael Ashton Pam Valentine
Written by	Pam Valentine Michael Ashton
Directed by	Graeme Muir
Starring	Peggy Mount Pat Coombs Lally Bowers Peggy Ledger Diana King Charmian May Georgina Moon Johny Wade
Composer(s)	Dennis Wilson
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	31
Production
Producer(s)	Graeme Muir
Production company(s)	Yorkshire Television
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV
Original run	6 September 1977 (1977-09-06) – 18 August 1981 (1981-08-18)

You're Only Young Twice is a British television sitcom made and broadcast on the ITV network by Yorkshire Television from 1977 to 1981.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Episodes 3.1 Series 1 (1977) 3.2 Series 2 (1978) 3.3 Series 3 (1979) 3.4 Christmas Specials (1979 & 1980) 3.5 Series 4 (1981) 4 DVD release 5 External links

Plot

Set in "Paradise Lodge Retirement Home", it was created and written by the writing partnership of Michael Ashton and Pam Valentine and starred much-loved TV Battleaxe Peggy Mount as the wily Flora Petty, with Character-Actress Pat Coombs as her sidekick Cissie Lupin. The majority of the 31 episodes (broadcast throughout the show's 4-year run) centred around Flora's attempts to thwart the long-suffering staff, led by Miss Milton (Charmian May). They are on occasion assisted by former theatrical artiste Dolly Love (played by veteran stage actress Lally Bowers) and the haughty Mildred Fanshaw (played by sitcom regular Diana King).

It was produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network from 1977 to 1981.

Cast

• Peggy Mount - Flora Petty
• Pat Coombs - Cissie Lupin
• Lally Bowers - Dolly Love
• Peggy Ledger - Katy O'Rourke (series 1-2)
• Diana King - Mildred Fanshawe
• Charmian May - Miss Milton
• Georgina Moon - Miss Finch
• Johny Wade - Roger

Episodes

Series 1 (1977)

• Stranger in Paradise (6 Sep 77)
• Raising the Roof (13 Sep 77)
• One of Life's Winners (20 Sep 77)
• The Ball Game (27 Sep 77)
• The Birthday Girl (4 Oct 77)
• The Roya Visit (11 Oct 77)
• Too Many Cooks (18 Oct 77)

Series 2 (1978)

• The Box Number (5 Jun 78)
• The Windfall (12 Jun 78)
• The Commercial (19 Jun 78)
• The White Elephant (26 Jun 78)
• The Foundling (3 Jul 78)
• The Deputy (10 Jul 78)
• The Spring Fayre (17 Jul 78)
• The Operation (24 Jul 78)

Series 3 (1979)

• And Cissie Makes Three (17 May 79)
• The Desperate Hours (24 May 79)
• Who's Calling? (31 May 79)
• Use of Bath (7 Jun 79)
• Jobs for the Girls (14 Jun 79)
• Cissie's Last Chance (21 Jun 79)
• The Outing (28 Jun 79)

Christmas Specials (1979 & 1980)

• Christmas at Paradise Lodge (24 Dec 79)
• Twas the Night Before Christmas (23 Dec 80)

Series 4 (1981)

• Breakfast at Peabody's (7 Jul 81)
• Flora's Big Mistake (14 Jul 81)
• The Missing Ring (21 Jul 81)
• Desirable Residence (28 Jul 81)
• The Gipsey's Curse (4 Aug 81)
• Thanks for the Memory (11 Aug 81)
• The Home Perm (18 Aug 81)

DVD release

All four series of You're Only Young Twice were released as separate volumes by Simply Home Entertainment in May 2009. Episode 8 included on the Series 1 DVD is in actual fact episode 1 of Series 2 ("The Box Number").

However Network has re-released all 4 series individually. though a 4-disc set of the complete series has yet to be released.

External links

• You're Only Young Twice at the Internet Movie Database