Humphrey Barclay became Head of Comedy at LWT in 1977 and supervised various successful series including "No, Honestly", "A Fine Romance" (1981–84). In May 1980 he unveiled "Metal Mickey" as a show "with the appeal of "Star Wars", the Daleks and "Mork and Mindy"" Following criticism at the Edinburgh International Television Festival of what was seen as casual racism the LWT series "Mind Your Language" (1977–79; 1986), Barclay commissioned "No Problem!", transmitted by Channel 4 during 1983–85, the first original black-made sitcom for British TV (an earlier series featuring a black family, "The Fosters" (ITV, 1976–77), had been a remake of a
Forrest Lewis 1961-1962 CBS sitcom "Ichabod and Me" with Robert Sterling, George Chandler, Reta Shaw, and Burt Mustin. Lewis also guest starred in the ABC/Warner Brothers western series, "Colt .45" with Wayde Preston, on the syndicated western "Mackenzie's Raiders", starring Richard Carlson, on the CBS hit comedy, "The Andy Griffith Show", and on the ABC sitcom, "The Real McCoys", starring Walter Brennan. Forrest Lewis Forrest Lewis (November 5, 1899 – June 2, 1977) was an American actor of the theatre, radio, motion pictures and television. He was born Raymond Forrest Lewis in Knightstown, Indiana. The future thespian was the son of Joseph