TV series
Pardon the Expression
1965–1966 · 2 seasons
A gentle, cosy workplace comedy where mild social embarrassment and fussy bureaucracy provide the only friction.
- Genres
- Comedy
- Starring
- Arthur Lowe, Robert Dorning, Betty Driver
- Overview
- Pardon The Expression! is an ITV sitcom made by Granada Television, that was first broadcast from Wednesday 2 June 1965 to Monday 27 June 1966. The sitcom was one of only four spin-offs from the highly popular soap opera Coronation Street. Pardon the Expression itself had a spin-off: Turn out the Lights broadcast in 1967. There wasn't to be another spin-off until the 1980s with The Brothers McGregor, which reused two characters who appeared in a single episode. Leonard Swindley was the central character. Formerly the manager of the fashion retail store "Gamma Garments" in Coronation Street, in this series he is the deputy manager of the department store Dobson and Hawks. His boss in the series was Ernest Parbold played by Paul Dawkins who was replaced by Wally Hunt played by Robert Dorning in series 2. Other regulars were Betty Driver as canteen lady, Mrs Edgeley and Joy Stewart as Miss Sinclair, the boss's secretary.
- How it feels
- Measured and fine in the background.
- About
- Work, class, ambition
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Genres
- Comedy
- Starring
- Arthur Lowe, Robert Dorning, Betty Driver
