"Root Into Europe" is an ITV comedy-drama based on the character from William Donaldson’s book The Henry Root Letters. Five episodes Written by Donaldson and Mark Chapman and produced by Aspect Film and TV for Central Independent Television, were first broadcast in May and June 1992. The series starred George Cole as Henry Root, and Pat Heywood as his wife, Muriel. Henry Root, a right-wing fish dealer who disapproves of the impending European Union, declares himself England’s ‘European regulator’ in a letter to the British Prime Minister, then John Major. He takes his wife Muriel on a tour of Europe to represent English values to mainland Europe. His adventures are captured on a camcorder by his wife to be sent to the BBC upon his return for a future documentary, which one expects will never be made.
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