George and Mildred by Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer. Like many British sitcoms of the time, "George and Mildred" was also made into a film, which was dedicated to actress Yootha Joyce who died suddenly in August 1980, just as the cast were about to film a sixth series. George and Mildred Roper have left their old house after receiving a compulsory purchase order from the council, and move to 46 Peacock Crescent in upmarket Hampton Wick. While Mildred enjoys the chance to better herself in her new surroundings, she is always being thwarted - usually by the lazy, inept and generally unemployed
Brian Murphy (actor) RAF Northwood, where he met future "The Good Life" actor Richard Briers. On leaving the RAF the two aspiring actors both performed in productions by the Dramatic Society at the Borough Polytechnic Institute, now London South Bank University. Murphy was a member of Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop (alongside Yootha Joyce), and a jobbing actor in the 1960s and early 1970s, combining his theatre work with appearances in television shows such as "The Avengers", "Z-Cars", "Callan" and "Dixon of Dock Green", before being cast in the role which would make him a household name. In "Man About the House", Murphy played