Beggar My Neighbour (TV series)


Beggar My Neighbour is a British sitcom starring Reg Varney, Peter Jones, June Whitfield, Pat Coombs and Desmond Walter-Ellis. Made in black-and-white, it was broadcast from 1966 to 1968 and was written by Ken Hoare and Mike Sharland.

Cast

Rose Garvey, and her husband Gerald, live next door to her sister Lana Butt, and her husband Harry, in the fictional Larkworthy Road, Muswell Hill, North London. Gerald is an underpaid junior executive, while Harry is a well-paid fitter. The slightly snobbish Gerald makes sure that he and Rose keep up a pretence of doing well even though they are not. Meanwhile, the Butts' relative wealth encourages Lana to put on airs and graces, although Harry remains down to earth.

Episodes

Only seven episodes of the original run of 23 have survived: episode two from the first series and all six episodes from series two.

Pilot (1966)

  1. Have Car, Won't Travel
  2. Lay Down Your Arms
  3. Episode three
  4. An Education in Itself
  5. Gone But Not Forgotten
  6. At Home on Saturday
  7. Marriage Muswell
  8. Keep Taking The Tablets

    Series two (1967)

  9. Let Them Eat Cake
  10. A Host of Friends
  11. No Bed of Rose's
  12. Laying Down the Law
  13. My Fair Harry Butt
  14. For Better, for Worse

    Special (1967)

  1. Old Before My Time
  2. Ask Me No Questions
  3. Is There Anybody There?
  4. Whiter Shade Of Yellow
  5. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
  6. Grey Flannel Love Suit
  7. What About the Workers?
  8. Whose Baby Are You?
  9. Drink To Me Only

    Surviving episodes

Series No'Ep No'TitleBroadcastNotes
Series 1Episode 2Lay Down Your Arms27/3/67
Series 2Episode 1Let Them Eat Cake2/7/67
Series 2Episode 2A Host of Friends9/7/67
Series 2Episode 3No Bed of Rose's16/7/67
Series 2Episode 4Laying Down the Law23/7/67
Series 2Episode 5My Fair Harry Butt30/7/67
Series 2Episode 6For Better, for Worse6/8/67