Yootha Joyce When the series ended, a spin-off was written featuring the Ropers: "George and Mildred" which was first broadcast in 1976. The couple were seen moving from the London house in Myddleton Terrace in the previous programme and into a newer suburban property in Peacock Crescent, Hampton Wick. Much of the new series centred on Mildred's desire to better herself in her new surroundings, but always being thwarted, usually unwittingly, by her lifeskills-lacking husband's desire for a quiet life. Joyce's high-profile roles in the two sitcoms concealed her alcoholism. A feature film was made of "George and Mildred" in 1980, but
Brian Murphy (writer) Pope John Paul II and investigative reports on radical Islam and the rise of Christianity in Africa. 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