Rent My Old Man (1974 - 1975)
3.7 of 5 from 46 ratings
- General info
- Synopsis:
- My Old Man is a British comedy series about a man who is forced to vacate his council house and move in with his daughter and her family, something that causes no end of trouble. The series follows Sam Cobbett (Clive Dunn), a man happy living alone but one who is forced to move in with his daughter when he is told his house and the rest of the houses on his street are scheduled for demolition. He moves in to his daughters small flat with her husband and her teenage son and discovers that their lives are not what he expected as he has to get used to this new way of living.
- Actors:
- Clive Dunn, Priscilla Morgan, Edward Hardwicke, Daisy Adair, Keith Chegwin, Bart Allison, Jon Laurimore, Frederick Bennett, Peter Mayock, George Tovey, Colin Cunningham, Kathleen Heath, Peter Ellis, Gorden Kaye, Katharine Page, Artro Morris, Ellis Dale, Damaris Hayman, Julie Dawn Cole, Maureen Morris
- Directors:
- Paddy Russell
- Producers:
- Paddy Russell, John Duncan
- Writers:
- Gerald Frow
- Studio:
- Network
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Comedies, TV Sitcoms
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Ronnie vs. Clive - My Old Man review by LN
Haven't seen this particular version of MY OLD MAN but FYI I've just seen the disc SEVEN OF ONE, showing 7 short pilots of potential series filmed in the 70s in which Ronnie Barker did the central character.
Ronnie played this character Sam Cobbett, an elder who's the last resident to move out of a condemned street and into a modern centrally heated high rise with his daughter and family. Sam despises all aspects of the new place which is so alien to his old way of life but the dialogue is funny and poignant. The clash of old and new is a revelation. Hopefully the scripts were similar in this Clive Dunn version which I'm putting on my CP list.
The pilot was excellent so I'm awarding the Clive version a good rating.
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