Best of Enemies (TV series)

Best of Enemies
Genre	Comedy
Written by	Harry Driver Vince Powell
Starring	Robert Coote Tim Barrett Deryck Guyler
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	5
Production
Producer	Alan Tarrant
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	Thames Television
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	6 August 1968 (1968-08-06) – 16 July 1969 (1969-07-16)

Best of Enemies is a British comedy television series which first aired on ITV between 6 August 1968 and 16 July 1969. Rival Conservative and Labour MP's are forced to share an office in the Houses of Parliament. The two characters are inversions of their stereotypes with the Tory a more modest man who rides a bicycle while his Labour counterpart drives an expensive jaguar. Coote had already portrayed an MP in the 1967 series The Whitehall Worrier, with which it shared a gentler humour.

All episodes are believed to be lost.

Cast

• Robert Coote as Willie Gordon MP
• Tim Barrett as Geoffrey Broom MP
• Deryck Guyler as Wilkins
• Jay Denyer as Policeman
• Ann Lancaster as Mrs. Ewing
• Geoffrey Palmer as Johnson
• Jill Dixon as Rowena Gordon
• Angela Ryder as Miss Fifi

Bibliography

• Steven Fielding. A State of Play: British Politics on Screen, Stage and Page, from Anthony Trollope to The Thick of It. A&C Black, 2014.

External links

• Best of Enemies at IMDb