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Thank you. Includes all 28 episodes from the TV series, plus the movie. A genuine British comedy classic, the popularity of Rising Damp remains unparalleled some 25 years after the first transmission.
Rising Damp is remembered fondly for being a British ITV sitcom by Eric Chappell, which came to an end in 1978. Airing for four years, the series was an adaptation of Chappell's stage play The ...
See Don Warrington in his breakthrough role as Philip in Rising Damp In the resurfaced snap from 1975, the TV star can be seen showing off his toned abs during an episode from series two of the show.
Rising Damp star Don Warrington has defended the classic sitcom over ... because of the way it showed a black man on TV who was not being put down or abused.” In recent years, a number of older comedy ...
Rising Damp star Don Warrington has defended the classic ... because of the way it showed a black man on TV who was not being put down or abused.” ...
Chapell, who was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, in 1933, won a Bafta in 1978 for Rising Damp, starring Leonard Rossiter, Don Warrington and Frances de la Tour. The comedy was set in a seedy ...
Eric Chappell (left) wrote the TV hit Rising Damp, which starred Leonard Rossiter (right) Eric Chappell, the creator of hit TV sitcoms Rising Damp and Home to Roost, has died aged 88. Chappell ...
They couldn't be written now and certainly not by me.” Eric - whose other TV hits include 'The Bounder', 'Home To Roost' and 'Singles' - believes 'Rising Damp' is still enjoyed by viewers because it ...
The actor Don Warrington says the best year of his financial life was 1974, the year he started playing Philip Smith in the TV sitcom Rising Damp. The 69-year-old star told Donna Ferguson he ...
The two-part series, titled Rising Damp Forever, will feature interviews ... and "Did you know a disco-inspired single was released into the music charts off the back of the TV show?" This will be ...
TV classic Rising Damp is the latest sitcom to be resurrected on stage, following the likes of Yes, Prime Minister and Steptoe & Son. Actor Don Warrington and writer Eric Chappell discuss reviving ...
The new adaptation of Rising Damp will be directed by former cast member Warrington Classic sitcom Rising Damp is to return on stage for a UK tour directed by one of its original TV stars.