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 Johns Mervyn Johns David Mervyn Johns (18 February 18996 September 1992) was a distinctive Welsh film and television character actor who became a star of British films during World War II. Continuing into the postwar era, he was a notable mainstay of Ealing Studios. Mervyn Johns started his career in the theatre in the 1920s, and then made his first film in 1935. Among his dozens of film roles were the church warden in "Went the Day Well?" (1942), the fearful architect Walter Craig in the mystery film "Dead of Night" (1945) and Bob Cratchit in "Scrooge" (1951) with Alastair Sim.