Oh, Brother! success and only lasted a single series of seven episodes. Oh, Brother! Oh, Brother! is a British situation comedy show on BBC television starring Derek Nimmo, which was broadcast between 1968 and 1970. The series was set in a monastery, with Nimmo cast as the well-meaning but inept novice Brother Dominic. It was basically a successor to "All Gas and Gaiters", where Nimmo had played a very similar role, the main difference being that Brother Dominic was working-class, whereas Nimmo's previous character, Rev. Mervyn Noote, had been upper-class. "Oh, Brother!" was not quite as successful or as affectionately remembered as
Mervyn Wheatley Mervyn Wheatley Colonel Sir Mervyn James Wheatley CBE (24 April 1880 – 26 October 1974) was a British Army officer and a Conservative Party politician. Wheatley served in the Second Boer War in South Africa, where he took part in operations in Natal from March to June 1900, including action at Laing's Nek; then at Transvaal and in the Orange River Colony. He received a regular commission as a second lieutenant in the Dorsetshire Regiment on 27 July 1901. He stayed in South Africa throughout the war, which ended June 1902 with the Peace of Vereeniging. Four months later he