Rising Damp de la Tour, Richard Beckinsale and Don Warrington. Rossiter played Rupert Rigsby (originally Rooksby in the stage play), the miserly, seedy, and ludicrously self-regarding landlord of a run-down Victorian townhouse who rents out his shabby bedsits to a variety of tenants. Beckinsale played Alan Moore, a long-haired, naive, good-natured and amiable medical student who occupies the top room. Frances de la Tour played Ruth Jones, a fey, whimsical spinster and college administrator who rents another room, with whom Rigsby is in love and to whom he proposes in the last episode. In the pilot episode, a new tenant arrives. Philip
Warrington Wolves League. This was, however, resisted. Warrington were awarded a place in the European Super League and Widnes were at one stage given a place but then were dropped and had to be relegated to Division One. In 1996, the first tier of British rugby league clubs played the inaugural Super League season and changed from a winter to a summer season. Brian Johnson resigned as coach in January 1996 following a club record 80–0 defeat against St Helens at Knowsley Road and John Dorahy took over. Warrington added "Wolves" to their name; wolf symbols had started to appear on Warrington