Word: speights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Colleen Dewhurst, L.H.D., actress. Clarence ("Hank") Speight, L.H.D.. chief groundsman. You have appeared out of nowhere on dark, wintry nights to rescue us from snow or ice or loneliness...
...broadcast clearly captured at least something of the flavor of the House, and not everyone found it palatable. "We'd never stand for this sort of audience in our business," said Comedian Mike Yarwood, one of whose specialties is impersonating Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Scriptwriter Johnny Speight, who created the British model for America's Archie Bunker, thought that the broadcast from the Commons "has the making of a good comedy series." Some disagreed. A BBC spokesman admitted that several peeved listeners had called in to ask what had happened to Listen with Mother, the regular program that...
Robert S. Speight Tehran, Iran...
...Family. In its original television version, called Till Death Us Do Part, it enjoyed enormous success, but the Alf of the series and of this caustic film (Warren Mitchell) is no lovable oaf like Archie Bunker. He is a meanspirited, loudmouthed, craven boozer who is portrayed by Writer Johnny Speight and Director Norman Cohen with deadly dispassion...