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{{short description|British television series}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2014}}{{Use British English|date=May 2014}}
{{Infobox television
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| genre = [[Sitcom]]
| creator =
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| developer =
| writer = [[Terence Frisby]]
| director = Mike Vardy
| creative_director =
| starring = [[David Jason]]<br>[[Peter Armitage (actor)|Peter Armitage]]<br>[[Cheryl Hall]]<br>[[Pat Heywood]]
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| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| num_series = 1
| num_episodes = 13
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| runtime = 25 minutes
| company = [[London Weekend Television]]
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| channel = [[ITV (TV channel)|ITV]]
| picture_format = 4:3
| audio_format = Mono
| first_aired = {{Start date|1976|09|03|df=y}}
| last_aired = <br>{{End date|1976|11|26|df=y}}
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'''''Lucky Feller''''' is a [[British television]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]] written by [[Terence Frisby]] and produced by [[Humphrey Barclay]]. It was broadcast on [[ITV (TV channel)|ITV]] in 1976. The series stars [[David Jason]] and ran for one series of 13 episodes.

The series is about two [[plumber]] brothers who live in [[Brockley]], South East [[London]]. The basic set-up can be compared to ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'', except with David Jason playing the Rodney part, Bernard 'Shorty' Mepstead. The elder brother, Randolph 'Randy' Mepstead, is played by [[Peter Armitage (actor)|Peter Armitage]] ([[Nicky Henson]] in the [[pilot episode]]). Shorty is naive, hopeful and in love with a girl named Kathleen Peake ([[Cheryl Hall]]). She is sexually [[infatuate]]d with – and thinks she is [[pregnant]] by – Randy. Despite her [[sexual attraction|attraction]] to Randy, she becomes [[engagement|engaged]] to Shorty and has to bed him before the end of the series so that he will believe that he is the father. But despite her best attempts, and Shorty's feelings for her, the consummation never happens. In the final episode, it becomes clear that Kath is not pregnant.

Guest stars include [[Pat Heywood]], [[Prunella Scales]] and [[Mike Grady (actor)|Mike Grady]] as well as [[Burt Kwouk]] and [[Saeed Jaffrey]]. The show was directed by both Gerry Mill and Mike Vardy and location sequences were mainly filmed in and around South London. The show was offered a second series; however writer Terence Frisby did not feel he had enough ideas for the series to continue, so the show ended with the thirteenth and final episode.

The complete series was released on DVD on 22 September 2014 and was repeated on [[Gold (UK TV channel)|Gold]] in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

==Episode list==
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! style="background:#A9953B; color:#fff; width:21%"| Title
! style="background:#A9953B; color:#fff; width:21%"| Written by
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = –
|EpisodeNumber2 = –
|Title = Pilot
|WrittenBy = ?
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|6|3|df=y}} (recorded on)
|ShortSummary = Shorty goes on a [[dating|date]] with Kathleen Peake to a [[Chinese restaurant]]. They are interrupted by his brother Randy and Randy's drunken friend Sylveste. Randy takes Kath home before returning to the house.

This episode has the same story as episode 2, but with a different actress as Mum.
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|-
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 1
|EpisodeNumber2 = 1
|Title = Mother's Day
|WrittenBy = Terence Frisby
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|9|3|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = It is [[Mother's Day]], so Shorty has arranged for he, his mother and his brother Randy to take a trip to [[Brighton]]. Their train breaks down en route. The brothers are attracted to Kath, a young woman with whom they are sharing their compartment. She lives in [[Nunhead]] and is visiting her grandmother who lives in [[Redhill, Surrey|Redhill]].
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|-
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 1
|EpisodeNumber2 = 2
|Title = All the Tea in China
|WrittenBy = Terence Frisby
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|9|10|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = Shy Shorty plucks up courage to ask his new-found girlfriend Kath out for the evening to a Chinese restaurant. Randy and his friend Sylveste arrive unexpectedly. Randy takes Kath to her place whilst Shorty drives Sylveste home because he is incapacitated by alcohol. When both brothers are back at the house, Shorty thinks that Randy did him a favour by taking Kath home.

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|-
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 1
|EpisodeNumber2 = 3
|Title = Breaking the Ice
|WrittenBy = Terence Frisby
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|9|17|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = Shorty loses his nerve about asking Kath out for a second time. Mum persuades him to ask Kath home for an evening; he accidentally freezes a bottle of [[champagne]] which he had intended to drink with Kath.
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|-
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 1
|EpisodeNumber2 = 4
|Title = Kath's Family
|WrittenBy = Terence Frisby
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|9|24|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = Shorty dresses smartly and goes round to Kath's. Her unhappily married parents - Mr and Mrs Peake - are rowing – this time about a broken pane of glass. Shorty offers to mend it. He accidentally breaks the new pane of glass that the Peakes had, so he buys and fits a new window.
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|-
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 1
|EpisodeNumber2 = 5
|Title = It's a Dog's Life
|WrittenBy = Terence Frisby
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|10|1|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = Shorty declares the news: he is in love. Randy is in hysterics, then shocked when Shorty reveals the identity of his infatuation. A trip to the pub is called for.
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|-
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 1
|EpisodeNumber2 = 6
|Title = The Game
|WrittenBy = Terence Frisby
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|10|8|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = Shorty plans to ask Kath out but when he mentions that Randy is at home, that is where they end up for the evening. Kath has some games in mind – but not the one Shorty suggests.
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|-
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 1
|EpisodeNumber2 = 7
|Title = The Power and the Glory
|WrittenBy = Terence Frisby
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|10|15|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = The local church needs some of its wiring repaired and Kath suggests to the vicar that Shorty and Randy should do it. When Shorty learns that Kath got them the job and she is waiting for them in the church, he decides that this is the moment and plucks up courage to [[marriage proposal|propose]] to her. She receives an [[electrical injury|electric shock]], and he mistakes her shaking for nodding in acceptance.
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|-
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 1
|EpisodeNumber2 = 8
|Title = The Families Meet
|WrittenBy = Terence Frisby
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|10|22|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = In high excitement, Shorty has asked Kath and her parents to Sunday dinner. He plans to announce his intention to marry her. She is puzzled at his claim that she accepted his proposal.
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|-
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 1
|EpisodeNumber2 = 9
|Title = Where There's Life There's Soap
|WrittenBy = Terence Frisby
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|10|29|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = When the machines at the [[launderette]] break down and start spewing out soap suds on a Sunday afternoon, Shorty and Randy are hired by the owner to get his 'automated, computerised' system running again. Shorty is horrified and angry when he finds out that Kath is enjoying [[casual sex]] with Randy.
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|-
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 1
|EpisodeNumber2 = 10
|Title = Ever Been Had?
|WrittenBy = Terence Frisby
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|11|5|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = The Mepsteads have a night out on the town. Mum goes to bingo, then to a pub where she meets a man whom she brings home. Randy goes on a [[pub crawl]] and brings home a woman. At home, Mum's date recognises Randy's date as his wife.
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|-
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 1
|EpisodeNumber2 = 11
|Title = The Boat
|WrittenBy = Terence Frisby
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|11|12|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = Shorty, convinced it is his lack of word power that is preventing him making progress with Kath, is desperate for help. Randy chats up a female stranger in the street, to show Shorty how. Kath tells Mum that she is pregnant by Randolph and the two women conspire to trick Shorty into thinking that he is the father, and Kath now wants to marry Shorty as part of that plan. Kath has not had sex with Shorty, so she tries to find an opportunity to [[seduce]] him. Shorty and Kath hire a [[rowing boat]] and lay down together in a secluded spot. However, they are soon interrupted by a group of [[nun]]s. They get back into the boat, which has a large hole in it and sinks.
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|-
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 1
|EpisodeNumber2 = 12
|Title = A Night on the Moors
|WrittenBy = Terence Frisby
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|11|19|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = Shorty is delighted at Kath agreeing to marry him; he is unaware of her pregnancy. In order to dupe Shorty into thinking that he is the father, she persuades him to take her to [[Bournemouth]] for a trial weekend during which she intends to seduce him. However, they take a wrong turn onto [[Salisbury Plain]] and stay at a farmer's house. A mix-up regarding who sleeps where results in Kath having sex with the farmer and Shorty having sex with his wife. In the morning, Shorty says something which makes the women realise what happened, but the men still think they each had sex with their own woman.
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|-
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 1
|EpisodeNumber2 = 13
|Title = The Wedding
|WrittenBy = Terence Frisby
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|11|26|df=y}}
|ShortSummary = Now that he is about to marry Kath, Shorty is nervous about the events to come. A rehearsal takes place, but before the actual ceremony, Kath receives written proof that she is not pregnant. When Mr Peake finds out about the pregnancy scare, he wrongly assumes that Kath had sex with Shorty. As Shorty waits in the church for the ceremony, Mr Peake punches him.
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}}
|}

==External links==
*{{British Comedy Guide|tv|lucky_feller}}
*{{IMDb title|id=0074019|title=Lucky Feller}}

[[Category:1976 British television series debuts]]
[[Category:1976 British television series endings]]
[[Category:1970s British sitcoms]]
[[Category:Casual sex in television]]
[[Category:English-language television shows]]
[[Category:ITV sitcoms]]
[[Category:London Borough of Lewisham]]
[[Category:London Weekend Television shows]]
[[Category:Pregnancy-themed television shows]]
[[Category:Television series about brothers]]
[[Category:Television series about dysfunctional families]]
[[Category:Television series by ITV Studios]]
[[Category:Television shows set in London]]

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