Further Adventures of Lucky Jim

Further Adventures of Lucky Jim
Genre	Comedy
Based on	Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Written by	Dick Clement Ian La Frenais
Starring	Keith Barron Colin Jeavons
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	7
Production
Producer	Duncan Wood
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	BBC
Original release
Network	BBC One
Release	2 May (1967-05-02) – 13 June 1967 (1967-06-13)

Further Adventures of Lucky Jim or The New Adventures of Lucky Jim is a comedy television series which first aired on BBC 1 in 1967. Inspired by the novel Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, it updates the story from the early 1950s of the novel to mid-1960s Swinging London. It stars Keith Barron as the young university lecturer Jim Dixon. The scriptwriters wrote a belated sequel The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim starring Enn Reitel in 1982.

The majority of the episodes are now considered lost.

Other actors who appeared in the series include Suzy Kendall, Nerys Hughes, John Le Mesurier, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, John Junkin, Donald Hewlett, William Kendall, Robert Raglan, Felix Bowness, Janina Faye, Patrick Newell, Diana King and Michael Balfour.

Main cast

• Keith Barron as Jim Dixon
• Colin Jeavons as Brian

Bibliography

• David Pringle. Imaginary People: A Who's who of Fictional Characters from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day. Scolar Press, 1996.

External links

• Further Adventures of Lucky Jim at IMDb