Wild, Wild Women

2023-01-04T16:55:56Z

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{{Infobox television
| image = Wild,_Wild_Women.jpg
| caption = Title card
| genre = [[Sitcom]]
| runtime = 30 minutes
| creator =
| starring = [[Barbara Windsor]] [[Penelope Keith]] [[Pat Coombs]] [[Daphne Heard]] [[Joan Sanderson]] [[Derek Francis]] [[Ronnie Stevens (actor)|Ronnie Stevens]] [[Anna Karen]] [[Paul Whitsun-Jones]]
| country = United Kingdom
| network = [[BBC One|BBC1]]
| first_aired = {{start date|1968|5|24|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{end date|1969|2|10|df=y}}
| num_episodes = 7 (6 missing)
}}

'''''Wild, Wild Women''''' is a British television [[sitcom]] that aired on [[BBC One|BBC]] from 1968 to 1969. Shot in [[black-and-white]], it starred [[Barbara Windsor]] and was written by [[Chesney and Wolfe|Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney]].

==Cast==
===Pilot===
*[[Barbara Windsor]] – Millie
*[[Derek Francis]] – Mr Harcourt
*[[Penelope Keith]] – Daisy
*Sonia Fox – Ruby
*Jennie Paul – Blossom
*[[Ronnie Stevens (actor)|Ronnie Stevens]] – Clarence
*David Stoll – Lord Hurlingham
*Zena Howard – Lady Hurlingham

===Series===
*[[Barbara Windsor]] – Millie
*[[Paul Whitsun-Jones]] – Mr Harcourt
*[[Pat Coombs]] – Daisy
*[[Ken Platt]] – Albert
*Toni Palmer – Ruby
*[[Jessie Robins]] – Blossom
*[[Daphne Heard]] – Ginny
*Yvonne Paul – Flo
*[[Anna Karen]] – Maude
*[[Joan Sanderson]] – Mrs Harcourt

==Outline==
This period sitcom, set in 1902, was a variation of ''[[The Rag Trade]]'', which was also written by [[Chesney and Wolfe]]. [[Barbara Windsor]], who also starred in ''The Rag Trade'', played Millie, a [[cockney]] woman who led the women in a [[Hatmaking|milliner's]] shop. The storylines focused around the conflict between the female workers and the management, Mr Harcourt and his apprentice Albert. Reflecting the mood of Britain in the late 1960s, the women adopted a new feisty spirit not seen in most characters in ''The Rag Trade''. In the pilot the women were shown as strong supporters of the suffragette movement, but it was decided not to make much of this in the series.

The series failed to attract the same popularity as ''The Rag Trade'', and was decommissioned after the first series. Only episode 3 still exists.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lostshows.com/default.aspx?programme=c98761ce-cbc9-4236-a0fa-8c792e0b97d9|title=Missing or incomplete episodes for programme WILD, WILD WOMEN|accessdate=10 July 2008|year=2006|publisher=LostShows.com}}</ref>

==Episodes==
===Comedy Playhouse Pilot (1968)===
*Pilot (24 May 1968)

===Series One (1969)===
*Episode One (6 January 1969)
*Episode Two (13 January 1969)
*Episode Three (20 January 1969)
*Episode Four (27 January 1969)
*Episode Five (3 February 1969)
*Episode Six (10 February 1969)

==References==
;Specific
{{reflist}}
;General
*[[Mark Lewisohn]], ''Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy'', BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2003

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0201401|Wild, Wild Women}}

{{Chesney Wolfe}}

[[Category:Fiction set in 1902]]
[[Category:1968 British television series debuts]]
[[Category:1969 British television series endings]]
[[Category:1960s British sitcoms]]
[[Category:BBC television sitcoms]]
[[Category:Comedy Playhouse]]
[[Category:Lost BBC episodes]]

Me Mammy

2023-01-04T16:52:45Z

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{{Infobox television
| image =
| caption =
| genre = [[Situation comedy|Sitcom]]
| runtime = 30 minutes
| creator = [[Hugh Leonard]]
| starring = [[Milo O'Shea]] [[Anna Manahan]] [[Yootha Joyce]] [[Ray McAnally]] [[David Kelly (actor)|David Kelly]]
| country = United Kingdom
| network = [[BBC One|BBC1]]
| first_aired = {{start date|1968|6|14|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{end date|1971|6|11|df=y}}
| num_series = 3
| num_episodes = 21 (13 missing)
}}

'''''Me Mammy''''' is a British [[Situation comedy|sitcom]] that aired on [[BBC One|BBC1]] from 1968 to 1971. Starring [[Milo O'Shea]], it was written by [[Hugh Leonard]].

==Background==
''Me Mammy'' first aired as pilot within the seventh series of the [[BBC|BBC's]] ''[[Comedy Playhouse]]''. The pilot and [[Comedy Playhouse (series 1)|first series]] were made in [[black-and-white]]. Despite playing his mother, Anna Manahan was only two years older than her on-screen son played by Milo O'Shea. Many of the episodes are missing and presumed [[Wiping|wiped]]. Only the first episode of the first series and the entire third series survive,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.btinternet.com/~m.brown1/mammy.htm |title=Me Mammy BBC, 1969-71 |publisher=Missing-Episodes.com |year=2005 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120630225101/http://www.btinternet.com/~m.brown1/mammy.htm |archive-date=30 June 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> However, although recorded in colour, the last series only survives in black and white.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tvbrain.info/tv-archive?showname=Me+Mammy&type=lostshow|title=Your Search: Me Mammy|work=TV Brain: Lost Shows|access-date=29 September 2021}}</ref>

==Cast==
*[[Milo O'Shea]] as Benjamin "Bunjy" Kennefick
*[[Anna Manahan]] as Mrs Kennefick
*[[Yootha Joyce]] as Miss Argyll
*[[Ray McAnally]] as Father Patrick
*[[David Kelly (actor)|David Kelly]] as Cousin Enda

==Plot==
Bunjy Kennefick is an [[Ireland|Irish]] mother's boy living in [[London]]. He is a top executive of a company and aspires to live a bachelor lifestyle. However, his old-fashioned [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] mother often puts a stop to his plans, many of them involving his secretary and girlfriend, Miss Argyll. Other characters include Father Patrick, often mocked for his dubious morality, and Cousin Enda.

The episodes feature some surreal elements, such as "Catholic Chess", which pits pieces modelled on prominent Catholic figures against one modelled on prominent Protestant figures. On the Catholic side of the board are buttons which can drop opposing pieces through trapdoors, "sending them to Hell". Another example was the board game ‘Popopoly’ (“Hold your own Papal elections.”). Bunjy's mother would pray to bizarrely named saints.

==Episodes==
===Pilot (1968)===
*Pilot (14 June 1968) (part of ''[[Comedy Playhouse]]'')

===Series One (1969)===
#"The Day We Blessed the Bench" (15 September 1969)
#"The Day Verilia Went to Pieces" (22 September 1969)
#"The Night Me Mammy Snuffed It" (29 September 1969)
#"The Day the Saints Went Marching Out" (13 October 1969)
#"The First Time I Saw Paris" (20 October 1969)
#"The Day Concepta Got England" (27 October 1969)

===Series Two (1970)===
#"The Night Miss Argyll Got Canonised" (7 August 1970)
#"Me Mammy's Tomb" (14 August 1970)
#"The Night We Saw Old Nick" (21 August 1970)
#"The Last of the Red-Hot Mammies" (28 August 1970)
#"The Night Edna Entered a Convent" (4 September 1970)
#"The Night I Left the Church" (11 September 1970)
#"The Morning After Finnegan's Wake" (18 September 1970)

===Series Three (1971)===
#"The Day We Went Dutch" (23 April 1971)
#"The Night The Banshee Brought Me Home " (30 April 1971)
#"The Day I Got Engaged" (7 May 1971)
#"The Day I Went Commercial" (14 May 1971)
#"The Sacred Chemise Of Miss Argyll" (21 May 1971)
#"The Mammy Murder Case" (28 May 1971)
#"How To Be A Mammy in Law" (11 June 1971)

===Surviving episodes===

{| class="wikitable" width="70%"
|-
! Series No' !! Ep No' !! Title !! Broadcast !! Notes
|-
| Series 1 || Episode 1 || The Day We Blessed the Bench || 15/9/69 ||
|-
| Series 3 || Episode 1 || The Day We Went Dutch || 23/4/71 ||
|-
| Series 3 || Episode 2 || The Night The Banshee Brought Me Home || 30/4/71 ||
|-
| Series 3 || Episode 3 || The Day I Got Engaged || 7/5/71 ||
|-
| Series 3 || Episode 4 || The Day I Went Commercial || 14/5/71 ||
|-
| Series 3 || Episode 5 || The Sacred Chemise Of Miss Argyll || 21/5/71 ||
|-
| Series 3 || Episode 6 || The Mammy Murder Case || 28/5/71 ||
|-
| Series 3 || Episode 7 || How To Be A Mammy-In-Law || 11/6/71 ||
|-
|}

==References==
;Specific
{{reflist}}
;General
*[[Mark Lewisohn]], "Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy", BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2003

==External links==
*[https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/m/memammy_7774255.shtml ''Me Mammy''] [[bbc.co.uk]]
* {{IMDb title|0162098|Me Mammy}}

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[[Category:1968 British television series debuts]]
[[Category:1971 British television series endings]]
[[Category:1960s British sitcoms]]
[[Category:1970s British sitcoms]]
[[Category:BBC television sitcoms]]
[[Category:Comedy Playhouse]]
[[Category:Lost BBC episodes]]

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