My Name Is Harry Worth

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My Name Is Harry Worth
GenreSitcom
Written by George Layton
Jonathan Lynn
Ronnie Taylor
Directed by William G. Stewart
Starring Harry Worth
Lally Bowers
Composer Nachum Heiman
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes8
Production
ProducerWilliam G. Stewart
Running time30 minutes
Production company Thames Television
Release
Original network ITV
Original release22 April (1974-04-22) 
17 June 1974 (1974-06-17)

My Name Is Harry Worth is a British comedy television series which originally aired on ITV in a series of eight episodes in 1974. It starred Harry Worth and Lally Bowers as his landlady Mrs Maybury. Worth plays a mild-mannered, well meaning man who ends up in a series of unlikely adventures. Three of the episodes were scripted by the writing team of George Layton and Jonathan Lynn. [1] The series was made at Teddington Studios, and the opening credits were shot outside the nearby Strawberry Hill railway station.

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Actors who appeared in episodes of the series included Gerald Sim, Sally Geeson, Reginald Marsh, David Lodge, Glyn Houston, Derek Francis, Peter Jones, Harry Littlewood, John Lyons, Derek Newark, Norman Mitchell and Robert Raglan.

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References

  1. Walker p.23

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