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	A 3-disc set containing series 2-4 made by Yorkshire Television and broadcast 1970-72 was released by Network on 14 June 2010. The third series (1971) is in black and white. The DVD notes state that no colour version of this series ever existed; the series was recorded in black and white because of the ITV [[Colour Strike]].		A 3-disc set containing series 2-4 made by Yorkshire Television and broadcast 1970-72 was released by Network on 14 June 2010. The third series (1971) is in black and white. The DVD notes state that no colour version of this series ever existed; the series was recorded in black and white because of the ITV [[w:Colour Strike\|Colour Strike]].

	==References==		==References==

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{{Infobox television
| image = Dear Mother...Love Albert.jpg
| picture_format = 4:3
| runtime = 30 minutes
| creator = [[Rodney Bewes]] [[Derrick Goodwin]]
| starring = [[Rodney Bewes]] [[Garfield Morgan]] [[Sheila White (actress)|Sheila White]] [[Geraldine Newman]] [[Liz Gebhardt]] [[Amelia Bayntun]] [[Cheryl Hall]]
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| company = [[Thames Television]] (series 1) [[ITV Yorkshire|Yorkshire Television]] (series 2–4)
| channel = [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]
| first_aired = {{Start date|1969|9|15|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{End date|1972|6|6|df=y}}
| num_series = 4
| num_episodes = 26 (+ 3 short specials)
}}

'''''Dear Mother...Love Albert''''' (later retitled '''''Albert!''''') is a British television [[sitcom]] that aired on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] from 15 September 1969 to 6 June 1972.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/dear_mother_love_albert/episodes/ |title=Dear Mother.... ....Love Albert series and episodes list |website=Comedy.co.uk}}</ref> It was created by and starred [[Rodney Bewes]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/479810/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Bewes, Rodney (1937-) Biography |website=Screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> Bewes co-wrote and produced the series with [[Derrick Goodwin]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.memorabletv.com/tv/dear-mother-love-albert-itv-1969-1972/ |title=Dear Mother – Love Albert (ITV 1969-1972, Rodney Bewes, Garfield Morgan) | Memorable TV |access-date=3 January 2019 |archive-date=4 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190104084202/https://www.memorabletv.com/tv/dear-mother-love-albert-itv-1969-1972/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The show regularly appeared in the TV ratings top ten throughout its three-year run.

The theme song was sung by Bewes, co-written by [[Mike Hugg]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/Rodney-Bewes-Dear-Mother-Love-Albert/release/1749143 |title=Rodney Bewes - Dear Mother Love Albert |website=Discogs.com}}</ref> Hugg had also encouraged Bewes to sing the theme to ''[[The Likely Lads]]'', but Bewes recalls "I think I drank a bottle of [[port wine|port]] in the end, but I couldn't get it".

There were 26 episodes, including three Christmas specials, all three broadcast as part of ''All Star Comedy Carnival''. The fourth and final series was broadcast as a sequel entitled ''Albert!'', which ran for a further series of seven episodes.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britishclassiccomedy.co.uk/dear-mother-love-albert |title=Dear Mother.... Love Albert |date=22 January 2018 |website=Britishclassiccomedy.co.uk }}</ref> Series 1 was produced by [[Thames Television]], while the subsequent series 2-4 were produced by [[ITV Yorkshire|Yorkshire Television]].

==Plot==
Albert Courtnay (Rodney Bewes) leaves his home in the North of England to live in London. At the start of each episode, he writes home to his mother, grossly exaggerating the events that have happened to him, while the episode goes on to show exactly the opposite. For example, Albert may say in his letter that he has been promoted at work — but the episode shows him being fired.

Albert finds work in a [[confectionery]] company, moves into a flat he shares with two young ladies and becomes engaged to Doreen Bissel ([[Liz Gebhardt]]). During the fourth and final series, Albert loses both his job and Doreen (now played by [[Cheryl Hall]]), but he continues his struggle to survive in London.

The name of Garfield Morgan's character, A.C. Strain, was an in-joke that would have been understood only by those who lived or worked in the same part of Fulham, south-west London, as Rodney Bewes at the time the series was made and broadcast. Bewes took the name from a local newsagent in New Kings Road.

==Regular cast==
*[[Rodney Bewes]] as Albert Courtnay
*[[Garfield Morgan]] as A.C. Strain
*[[Sheila White (actress)|Sheila White]] as Vivian McKewan (series 1-2)
*[[Geraldine Newman]] as Mrs McKewan (series 1-2)
*[[Liz Gebhardt]] as Doreen Bissel (series 3)
*[[Cheryl Hall]] as Doreen Bissel (series 4)
*Mary Land as Frankie (series 3)
*[[Luan Peters]] as Lesley (series 3)
*[[Amelia Bayntun]] as Ada Bissel (series 3-4)

==Episode guide==
===Series 1 (1969)===
*The Interview (missing)
*Merely A Formality (missing)
*In the Field (missing)
*Knight of the Road (missing)
*The Good Samaritan (missing)
*A Commercial Break (missing)

''All Star Comedy Carnival'' Christmas special, broadcast 25 December 1969 (missing, see [[Wiping]])

===Series 2 (1970)===
*Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing
*All The World's A Stage
*Hearts And Flowers
*The Deligate
*I'm Going To Be A Father
*Major Ab Adversis
*All Mod Cons

''All Star Comedy Carnival'' Christmas special, broadcast 25 December 1970 (missing)

===Series 3 (1971)===
*A Ring On Her Finger
*The Compulsive Gambler
*Raquel
*De Profundis
*Hold Up, It's A Hand Up
*Lost Weekend

''All Star Comedy Carnival'' Christmas special, broadcast 25 December 1971 (missing)

===Series 4 (1972)===
*Hair!
*A Ghost Story
*Trouble At T'Mill
*Blood Brothers
*Hot-Pot
*If He'd Meant Us To Fly
*Brave New World

==DVD release==
A 3-disc set containing series 2-4 made by Yorkshire Television and broadcast 1970-72 was released by Network on 14 June 2010. The third series (1971) is in black and white. The DVD notes state that no colour version of this series ever existed; the series was recorded in black and white because of the ITV [[Colour Strike]].

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{British Comedy Guide|tv|dear_mother_love_albert}}
*''[https://nostalgiacentral.com/television/tv-by-decade/tv-shows-1960s/dear-mother-love-albert/ Dear Mother...Love Albert]'' at Nostalgia Central
*[http://www.lostshows.com/default.aspx?programme=0b4e9720-f982-40b5-b2f5-a888b81c2be5 ''Dear Mother...Love Albert''] at lostshows.com

[[Category:1969 British television series debuts]]
[[Category:1972 British television series endings]]
[[Category:ITV sitcoms]]
[[Category:Television shows set in London]]
[[Category:1960s British sitcoms]]
[[Category:1970s British sitcoms]]
[[Category:Television series by Yorkshire Television]]
[[Category:Television shows produced by Thames Television]]
[[Category:English-language television shows]]
[[Category:Television shows shot at Teddington Studios]]

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