| FACTFILE |
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| ON THE AIR |
29th October 1979 - 16th December 1982 |
| ORIGINAL CHANNEL |
ITV |
| PRODUCTION COMPANY |
Yorkshire Television |
| NUMBER OF EPISODES |
29 |
| PRODUCTION
LOCATIONS |
Yorkshire Television Studios - Leeds |
| CAST |
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| James Bolam - Royston Figgis |
Peter Bowles - Archie Glover |
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| Christopher Strauli - Norman Binns |
Richard Wilson - Doctor Gordon Thorpe |
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| Derrick Branche - Gupte |
Patsy Smart - Lady |
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| Stephen Greif - Nicos |
Elin Jenkins - Anna |
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| David Hargreaves - Constable |
Natalie Ogle - Barbie |
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| Robert Gillespie - Glegg |
Pamela Cundell - Cook |
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| Sally Osborn - Nurse Sally |
Arnold Diamond - Customer |
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| John Junkin - Landlord |
Naomi Buch - Barmaid |
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| John Moore - Customer |
John Rapley - Customer |
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| Moira Lister - Gloria |
Patrick Troughton - Perkins |
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| Ronnie Stevens - Hargreaves |
Jenny McCracken - Lady Patient |
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| Julia Goodman - Nurse Jenny |
Margaret Courtenay - Mrs Binns |
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| Pat Ashton - Peg |
John Quayle - Vicar |
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| Brenda Cowling - Matron |
Judi Maynard - Nurse Eileen |
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| Richard Morant - Phil |
Jeremy Bulloch - Gary |
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| Rosalind Ayres - Amy Glossop |
Reginald Marsh - Sir Julian Briggs |
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| Ann Beach - Helen Roper-Jones |
Sylvia Kay - Clare Butterfield |
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| Mary Tamm - Leonora |
Karl Howman - Ronnie |
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| John Ronane - Policeman |
Isla Blair - Nurse Bradley |
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| Gwen Taylor - Victoria Plumtree |
Oliver Pye - Danny |
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| Alexandra Brook - Nurse Alex |
Jane Shackell - Nurse Jane |
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| Susan Sheridan - Children's Voices |
Marian Davies - Nurse |
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| Kay Garner - Nurse |
Lee Gibson - Nurse |
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| Sue Glover - Nurse |
Alexandra Brook - Sister |
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| Wanda Ventham - Fiona |
John Nettleton - Colonel Walters |
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| Terry Diab - Doctor Bernstein |
Diane Bull - Deirdre |
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| Jacqueline Clarke - Muffin |
Neil McCarthy - Harry |
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| Norman Mitchell - Prison Officer |
Frank Middlemass - Charlie |
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| Patricia Brake - Hilary |
Nicholas McArdle - George |
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| MISSING BELIEVED
WIPED |
N/A - All episodes still
in existence |
| ARCHIVE HOLDER |
ITV Archive
104 Kirkstall Road
Leeds
LS3 1JS
Tel: 0113 222 7500
https://www.itvarchive.com/ |
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| THEME TUNE |
OPENING THEME
- I'm h-a-p-p-y,
- I'm h-a-p-p-y,
- I know I am, I'm sure I am
- I'm h-a-p-p-y
- I know I am,
- I'm sure I am,
- He's h-a-p-p-y
CLOSING THEME
I'm h-a-p-p-y
I'm h-a-p-p-y
I know I am, I'm sure I am,
I'm h-a-p-p-y
Yes, I'm h-a-p-p-y,
I'm h-a-p-p-y,
I know I am, I'm sure I am,
I'm h-a-p-p-y
Oh yes, I'm h-a-p-p-y,
I'm h-a-p-p-y,
I know I am, I'm sure I am,
Yes I'm h-a-p-p,, h-a-p-p only when I laugh,
H-a-p-p-y |
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| REPEATED |
Episodes are repeated occasionally on ITV3 |
| COMMERCIAL RELEASES |
Available on Network DVD |
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| HELD IN THE BRITSET
ARCHIVES |
COMPLETE - All episodes held in our archives |
Only When I Laugh was a sitcom written by Eric Chapel and set in a hospital ward. The show fetured the antics of three paitents, Figgis, Glover and Norman. Neither of the paitents seemed to have much wrong with them. Their nemesis was Doctor Thorpe, played by Richard Wilson, who had little time for these paitents and classed them all as hypochondriacs.
