Isabelle Lucas 1960s, including "Miracle in Soho" (1957). Lucas's first major television role was in "The Fosters" (broadcast on ITV between 9 April 1976 and 9 July 1977), the first British sitcom to have an all-Black cast, in which she played the part of Pearl Foster, wife of Norman Beaton's lead character. Following this series she appeared in several minor British dramas and films. In 1985 she appeared in "EastEnders". At the end of the 1980s she joined the long-running BBC Schools' show "You and Me", and remained with it as a presenter until it finished in 1992. Lucas made several guest
British sitcom world's longest running sitcom. The commercial station ITV had popular successes with "Rising Damp" (1974–78, sometimes called the best of all ITV sitcoms), "Man About the House" (1973–76) and "George and Mildred" (1976–79). "Rising Damp"'s star, Leonard Rossiter, also played the lead role in the BBC's highly popular "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin" (1976–79). The decline in cinema attendance in this period meant that many of these series were turned into cinema films; the first film version of "On the Buses" (1969–73) was the biggest hit at the British box office in 1971. According to Jeff Evans, "On