In Loving Memory

In Loving Memory is a British period sitcom set in an undertakers business that starred Thora Hird and Christopher Beeny. A pilot was transmitted in 1969 by Thames Television who rejected the idea before it was finally accepted by Yorkshire Television in 1979 where it further ran for five series between until 1986. The year is 1929 and in the opening episode Jeremiah Unsworth , the proprietor of the undertakers, dies. This leaves his widow Ivy and gormless nephew Billy to take over the business. As might be expected, the accident-prone Ivy and Billy have numerous mishaps, and hardly a... funeral goes by without something untoward occurring. The setting for the show is the fictional Yorkshire town of Oldshaw during the 1930s. The writer Dick Sharples chose this period as this was the time when undertakers were switching from horse drawn hearses to mechanical ones. The theme tune is 'Comedy Close-Up No.2' by Herbert Chappell. Pilot 4 Nov 1969 · Tues 8.
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