Room Service (British TV series)

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Room Service
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DVD cover
Genre Comedy
Created by Jimmy Perry
Directed by Michael Mills
Starring Bryan Pringle
Peter Sallis [1]
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes7
Production
Production company Thames Television
Original release
Network ITV
Release2 January (1979-01-02) 
13 February 1979 (1979-02-13)

Room Service is a 1979 Thames Television comedy series written by Jimmy Perry without his usual writing partner David Croft. It and Perry's other work without Croft, High Street Blues (1989, co-written with Robin Carr) "remain contenders for the title of worst British sitcom". [2] The cast included Penelope Nice, Bryan Pringle and Matthew Kelly. [3]

Contents

DVD release

The complete series was released on DVD on 27 April 2015.

References

  1. "Room Service (1979)". comedy.co.uk.
  2. Oliver, John (2003–14). "Croft, David (1922-2011) and Perry, Jimmy (1923-)". BFI screenonline. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  3. "British TV Comedy". TV Comedy Resources. Retrieved 21 March 2009.