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{{Infobox television
| image = Inlovingmemory.jpg
| caption = Thora Hird and Christopher Beeny
| runtime = 25 minutes
| creator = [[Dick Sharples]]
| starring = [[Thora Hird]] [[Christopher Beeny]] Colin Farrell [[Avis Bunnage]] [[Sherrie Hewson]] Rose Power [[Joan Sims]] [[Veronica Doran]] [[Paul Luty]]
| country = United Kingdom
| channel = [[ITV Network|ITV]]
| first_aired = {{Start date|1969|11|04|df=yes}}
| last_aired = {{End date|1986|03|27|df=yes}}
| num_series = 5
| num_episodes = 37
| company = [[Thames Television]] (TV pilot), [[ITV Yorkshire|Yorkshire Television]] (TV series)
| related =
| producer = Ronnie Baxter
}}

'''''In Loving Memory''''' is a British [[period piece|period]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]] set in an [[Funeral director|undertakers business]] that starred [[Thora Hird]] and [[Christopher Beeny]]. A pilot with [[Marjorie Rhodes]] in the Thora Hird role was transmitted in 1969 by [[Thames Television]], who rejected the idea before it was finally accepted by [[ITV Yorkshire|Yorkshire Television]] nearly 10 years later, where it ran for a further five series between 21 May 1979 and 27 March 1986.

==Plot==
The year is 1929 and in the opening episode Jeremiah Unsworth ([[Freddie Jones]]), the proprietor of the undertakers, dies. This leaves his widow Ivy (Thora Hird) and [[wiktionary:gormless|gormless]] nephew Billy (Christopher Beeny) to take over the business. As might be expected, the accident-prone Ivy and Billy have numerous mishaps, and hardly a funeral goes by without something untoward occurring. A running subplot is Billy's pursuit of romance, often at the encouragement of Ernie Hadfield; this later ends with Billy's marriage to old schoolfriend Mary Braithwaite - who had originally been set to marry Ernie.

==Cast list==
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Actor
!Character
!Series
|-
|[[Thora Hird]]
|Ivy Unsworth
|1 to 5
|-
|[[Christopher Beeny]]
|Billy Henshaw
|1 to 5
|-
|[[Sherrie Hewson]]
|Doreen Nesbitt (1979–1980) Mary Henshaw (née Braithwaite) (1984–1986)
|1 to 2 4 to 5
|-
|Colin Farrell
|Ernie Hadfield
|1 to 5
|-
|[[Avis Bunnage]]
|Amy Jenkinson
|1 to 3
|}

* [[Richard Wilson (Scottish actor)|Richard Wilson]], famous for his role as [[Victor Meldrew]] in the sitcom ''[[One Foot in the Grave]]'', appeared in two episodes of the programme, firstly as rival undertaker Percy Openshaw and secondly as the local vicar, Reverend Chadwick.
* Two ''[[Carry On (franchise)|Carry On]]'' stars appear throughout the series; [[Joan Sims]] appears in three different episodes as different characters and [[Patsy Rowlands]] in two episodes as the district nurse, Lily Longstaff.

==Production==
The setting for the show is the fictional Yorkshire town of Oldshaw during the 1920s and 1930s. The writer, [[Dick Sharples]], chose this period as this was the time when undertakers were switching from horse-drawn to mechanical hearses. Location shooting took place in both [[Bramham cum Oglethorpe|Bramham]] and [[Luddenden]], [[West Yorkshire]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Ledger|first1=John|title=Dad's Army and 25 other glorious Yorkshire screen gems|url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/what-s-on/cinema/dad-s-army-and-25-other-glorious-yorkshire-screen-gems-1-7697534|access-date=14 February 2016|work=Yorkshire Post|date=26 January 2016}}</ref>

The pilot for the show aired on 4 November 1969 as part of a series of six one-off situation-comedies. The producers ([[Thames Television]]) elected not to take the series any further. It was almost ten years later when another ITV company Yorkshire Television commissioned a series. The theme music, entitled 'Comedy Close Up No.2' by Herbert Chappell, was supplied by [[De Wolfe Music]] film and television music library.

==Adaptations==
*Dame Thora Hird and Dick Sharples worked together on another ITV comedy series, ''[[Hallelujah! (TV series)|Hallelujah!]]'', which was also produced by Yorkshire Television and ran from 1983 to 1984 concurrently with ''In Loving Memory''.
*''[[That's Your Funeral]]'' was a BBC Television sitcom based on a similar premise, but it only lasted for one series.
*''RIP'', a 1992 TV show produced by the Belgian [[Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep|BRT]], borrowed many of its early screenplays directly from ''In Loving Memory''.

==Transmission dates==

* Pilot (B&W; 1 × 25 min): 4 November 1969; Tuesday at 8.30pm
* Series One (7 × 25 min): 21 May - 2 July 1979; Mondays at 8pm
* Series Two (7 × 25 min): 27 October - 8 December 1980; Mondays at 8pm
* Series Three (7 × 25 min): 12 October - 23 November 1982; Tuesdays at 8.30pm
* Special (1 × 25 Min): 24 December 1982; Friday at 8pm
* Series Four (7 × 25 min): 28 November 1983 – 6 February 1984; Mondays at 8pm
* Series Five (7 × 25 min): 13 February - 27 March 1986; Thursdays at 9pm

==DVD release==
All five series (including the 1982 Christmas special) of In Loving Memory have now been released on DVD by Network. A 5-disc set of the complete series has also been released.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! DVD !! Year(s) !! Release date
|-
| The Complete Series 1 || 1979 || 18 February 2009
|-
| The Complete Series 2 || 1980 || 6 July 2009
|-
| The Complete Series 3 plus Special || 1982 || 5 October 2009
|-
| The Complete Series 4 || 1984 || 19 April 2010
|-
| The Complete Series 5 || 1986 || 23 August 2010
|-
| The Complete Series 1 to 5 box set || 1979- 1986 || 18 October 2010
|-
|}

==Notes==
The series was re-broadcast on [[ITV3]] from 21 July 2015 onwards.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0063913|In Loving Memory}}
*{{British Comedy Guide|tv|loving_memory|In Loving Memory}}

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