Tottering Towers

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Tottering Towers
GenreFamily comedy
Written by Paddy Manning O'Brine
Starring William Mervyn
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes13
Production
ProducerDerek Bennett
Running time25 minutes
Production company Thames Television
Original release
Network ITV
Release20 October 1971 (1971-10-20) 
12 January 1972 (1972-01-12)

Tottering Towers is a British comedy television series which originally aired on ITV from 1971 to 1972. [1]

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  1. Maxford p.557

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