Man About the House (film) Man About the House (film) Man About the House is a 1974 British comedy film, a spinoff of the sitcom of the same name, starring all of the main cast of the series. It was the last in a series of big screen adaptations of popular TV shows made by Hammer Films though a "George & Mildred" film (featuring Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy) would be made in 1980 by another studio. The Ropers learn that Mr Pluthero, a real estate developer, wants to buy their building. The roommates circulate a petition to stop the development which attracts the interest
1970s in television starring Alan Alda, focused on the days of the Korean War, combined both comedy and drama. By the mid-to-late 1970s, viewers tired of socially responsible sitcoms. Former CBS head of programming Fred Silverman defected to struggling ABC started the trend of TV centred on sexual gratification and bawdy humor and situations, nicknamed "jiggle television." Jiggle TV shows included the crime-fighting television series "Charlie's Angels", which starred up-and-coming sex symbols Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, and Kate Jackson and the risqué sitcom such as "Three's Company", modeled after the British series "Man About the House", in which swinging single-man Robin Trip pretended