Rent In Loving Memory: Series 2 (1980)
4.0 of 5 from 2 ratings
2h 55min
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- Synopsis:
Oldshaw, 1929: when you could enjoy a night out at the Theatre Royal, a pint in the interval, a hot pie on the way home - and still have change from a shilling. You could also have an argument with a brewer's dray and end up as a client of Jeremiah Unsworth and Co., Undertakers and Monumental Masons...and be given one of the most disastrous funerals in the long and noble history of undertaking. Thora Hird brings her inimitable humour to the role of Ivy Unsworth in this much-loved comedy series set in a fictional Lancashire mill town. As the widow of funeral director Jeremiah, Ivy has been left to run Unsworth and Co. along with her accident-prone nephew, Billy (Christopher Beeny) - a scenario based on that of a pilot episode which had already proven a ratings hit more than ten years previously.
1. The Outing
Billy's not looking forward to the yearly undertakers' picnic.
2. Play to Me, Gypsy
When a mysterious woman arrives at the door Ivy is threatened with a gypsy's curse.
3. The Honeymooners
Billy reluctantly agrees to bring his new lady-friend home to meet Ivy.
4. Happy Birthday
Billy 'misplaces' a client and has to indulge in a bit of body snatching!
5. Madam President
Ivy intends to be the British Undertakers' Association's first female president.
6. The Angels Want Me for a Sunbeam
Billy is entranced when travelling evangelist Brother Benjamin Bailey comes to town.
7. The Fall of the House of Unsworth
Unsworth Undertakers are fighting off the bailiffs and don't even have enough money for coffin nails.- Actors:
- Thora Hird, Christopher Beeny, Derek Benfield, Elisabeth Sladen, Liz Smith, Hilda Fenemore, Denis Gilmore, Avis Bunnage, Stella Tanner, Colin Farrell, Derek Johns, Sherrie Hewson, Ruth Kettlewell, Ted Morris, Arthur Fortune, Kevin Brennan, Jackie Shinn, Rosalind Wilson, Veronica Doran, Bill Waddington
- Directors:
- Ronnie Baxter
- Producers:
- Ronnie Baxter
- Writers:
- Dick Sharples
- Studio:
- Network
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Comedies, TV Sitcoms
