Oh, Brother! 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 the earlier programme, although it did last three series containing
Mervyn Levy Mervyn Levy Mervyn Levy (11 February 1914 – 14 April 1996) was a British artist, art teacher and writer on art. Born in Swansea, where he became a friend of the painter Alfred Janes, the poet Dylan Thomas and the musician Daniel Jones, he spent most of his teaching career in Bristol and London, and made several popular television series about painting techniques. He published monographs on contemporary artists, and a catalogue raisonnee of the works of his friend the painter L. S. Lowry. Mervyn Montague Levy was born in Britain on 11 February 1914, in Swansea, the son of