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| Mrs Thursday | |
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| Genre | Comedy drama |
| Created by | Ted Willis |
| Starring | Kathleen Harrison Hugh Manning |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 38 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company | Associated Television |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | 15 March 1966 (1966-03-15) – 22 December 1967 (1967-12-22) |
Mrs Thursday is a British television comedy-drama produced by Associated Television. The series was devised by Ted Willis and featured scripts by Jack Rosenthal. It stars veteran British actress Kathleen Harrison as Alice Thursday, a Cockney charwoman who inherits £10 million and the controlling interest in a multinational company upon the death of her employer, as well as his Rolls-Royce and Mayfair mansion. Hugh Manning played Richard Hunter, Mrs. Thursday's butler, business advisor, and confidant. Reg Lye played Bill Lee.
Three series comprising a total of thirty-eight episodes of Mrs Thursday were produced. Series One (13 episodes) was broadcast between March 15 and June 7, 1966; Series Two (13 episodes) between 27 December 1966 and 20 March 1967; and Series Three (12 episodes) between 5 October and 22 December 1967.
Production
"The Train from Dunrich House" was partly filmed at Stapleford Park, and featured its miniature railway.
Commercial release
Series One is available on DVD. Series Two was released on DVD on 30 September 2013. Series Three, as of June, 2020, still hasn't been released.
Episode list
Series 1 (first broadcast March 15 – June 7, 1966)
- A Ride in a Rolls-Royce
- Call Me Madam
- Family Reunion
- Thursday's Child
- Honesty Is the Best Policy
- The Girl from Fuller Street
- The Canvas Jungle
- You Don't Have to Book for Buckingham Palace
- The Snows of Yesteryear
- Hunter's Moon
- The Full Dress Affair
- The Sitting Tenant
- Margate Comes But Once a Year
Series 2 (first broadcast December 27, 1966 – March 20, 1967)
- A Little of What You Fancy
- Changes Over the Counter
- The Train from Dunrich Station
- The Duke and I
- When My Boy Comes Home
- Only Washing and Babies
- We Don't Pay London Prices
- The Answer Is a Lemon
- No Tea for the Tallyman
- Up the Garden Path
- The Old School Tie Up
- A Matter of Time
- Charity Begins at the Ball
Series 3 (first broadcast October 5 – December 22, 1967)
- News of a Cruise
- All in the Same Boat
- The Sea, the Sea, the Open Sea
- When in Malaga
- Two of a Kind
- A Genuine Moorish Momento
- Spring Time for Hunter
- Alice Is at It Again
- In the Sea Air
- A Question of Being Entitled
- Everything in Concert
- We Bid You All Goodbye
External links
- Mrs Thursday at IMDb
- Mrs Thursday at Television Heaven Link says "No signal! This page has gone off-air"
- 1960s British drama television series
- ITV television dramas
- Black-and-white British television shows
- Television shows produced by Associated Television (ATV)
- British English-language television shows
- 1966 British television series debuts
- 1967 British television series endings
- Television shows shot at ATV Elstree Studios