George and Mildred George and Mildred George and Mildred is a British sitcom that was produced by Thames Television that aired from 1976-79. It was a spin-off from "Man About the House" and starred Brian Murphy and Yootha Joyce as constantly sparring married couple, George and Mildred Roper. The premise of the series had George and Mildred leaving their flat as depicted in "Man About the House" and moving to a modern, upmarket housing estate in Hampton Wick. Their arrival horrifies their snobbish neighbour Jeffrey Fourmile, a middle-class estate agent who fears that the Ropers' presence will devalue his home. It was written
Brian Murphy (writer) Brian Murphy (writer) Brian Murphy (born 1959) is a journalist at the Washington Post and the author of several non-fiction books, including "The New Men," a chronicle of American seminarians in Rome, and "The Root of Wild Madder," about the carpet trade in Iran and Afghanistan. In 2015, Da Capo Press published Murphy's "81 Days Below Zero," the story of World War II Army aviator Leon Crane and his solo survival in the Alaskan wilderness. He is a graduate of Boston College, where he was an editor of "The Heights". Prior to joining the Post in 2014, Murphy was the