Rent Here's Harry (1965)
3.9 of 5 from 48 ratings
5h 0min
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- Synopsis:
Harry Worth forged an award-winning stage and screen persona as a bumbling fusspot out of sync with a fast-changing society. After many years on the variety circuit, his first TV series, 'The Trouble with Harry' (1960), cast him as a would-be novelist failing to make any sense of the world around him. But his second show Here's Harry (1960-65), and a writing team led by Vince Powell and Harry Driver, went back to basics to cast an indelible mould and cement his popularity. In each episode Worth is pitted against figures of petty authority such as customs officers, railway staff, doctors, lawyers or policemen, who are increasingly exasperated by his unfathomable babbling. His amiable but bewildered persona paved the way for the equally hapless Frank Spencer, and an altogether angrier Victor Meldrew. Of 60 episodes broadcast, only ten from 1961 have been recovered from the BBC archives, with story lines ranging from comical attempts to book a holiday, celebrate a birthday or arrange an overdraft, to the accidental theft of a policeman's bicycle. The supporting cast includes character actors and sitcom stalwarts Gerald Anderson, Deryck Guyler, Reginald Marsh, Vi Stevens, Pat Wallworth, Leonard Williams and Jack Woolgar. Gentle, genial comedy gold from the original meddlesome muddler. - Actors:
- Harry Worth, Jack Woolgar, Joe Gladwin, Doris Gambell, Geoffrey Hibbert, Edwin Apps, Deryck Guyler, Stuart Saunders, Tony Melody, Reginald Marsh, Les Clark, Anthony Sharp, Gwendolyn Watts, Patrick Newell, Leonard Williams, Harold Goodwin, Roy Maxwell, Sam Kydd, Meg Johnson, Gerald Anderson
- Directors:
- Various
- Producers:
- John Ammonds, John Street
- Writers:
- Vince Powell, Frank Roscoe, Harry Driver, Ronnie Taylor, Eddie Maguire, Dave Freeman
- Aka:
- Here's Harry: The Complete Surviving Episodes
- Studio:
- Simply Media
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Comedies, TV Sitcoms
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Reviews (1) of Here's Harry
B&W BBC sitcom, 60 episodes, 1960-65 - Here's Harry review by AW
The titular 'hero' Harry is a bumbler, moving through every episode in a cleverly scripted haze of incomprehension, miscomprehension, innuendo, and tunnel vision. He gets people so wound up with his word salad of literal interpretation they want to crown him, and I don't blame them; It started out slowly in the 1st episode, his brand of humour took a bit of getting used to (and technically the CP disc here was from episodes from Season 2 - dunno quote what goes on with these compilations) but the following episodes got much funnier.
My warning though: Don't get more than one disc at a time, I feel sure this type of humour might start to grate. Perhaps I'll see more discs with strictly limiting spacing.
Also a lot of regulars appear as new characters in subsequent episodes, Sydney Tafler, Jack Woolgar, Anthony Sharp, Leonard Williams, Les Clark, Sam Kydd, even Ballard Berkeley (the dotty Major in Fawlty Towers)!
Episodes contained on Disc 1 were
The Bicycle, The Holiday, The Request, The Medals, The Voice, The Dance.
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