My Wife Next Door

My Wife Next Door

Genre	British sitcom
Created by	Brian Clemens
Written by	Richard Waring
Starring	John Alderton Hannah Gordon
Composer	Dennis Wilson
Country of origin	UK
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	13
Release
Original network	BBC1
Audio format	Monaural
First shown in	1972
Original release	19 September (1972-09-19) – 12 December 1972 (1972-12-12)

My Wife Next Door is a British sitcom created by Brian Clemens and written by Richard Waring. It was shown on BBC1 in 1972, which ran for 13 episodes.

The programme is about a couple, George Basset (John Alderton) and Suzie Basset (Hannah Gordon). Each tries to start afresh after their divorce. They move to the country, only to find that they have moved into adjoining cottages.^[1]

One episode of the series won a British Academy Television Award for Best Situation Comedy in 1973. During a repeat run of the series, in January 1980, one episode gained 19.3 million viewers and was the second most-watched programme that week.^[2]

In the 1980s, a three-episode VHS video was released.^[3] The complete series was released onto DVD in 2018.

References[]

^ Britain's Best Sitcom
^ The Mausoleum Club
^ More Whatever Happened to… Archived 6 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine

External links[]

My Wife Next Door at IMDb

British Academy Television Award for Best Scripted Comedy

My Wife Next Door (1973)
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1974)
Porridge (1975)
Fawlty Towers (1976)
Porridge (1977)
Rising Damp (1978)
Going Straight (1979)
Fawlty Towers (1980)
The Royle Family (2000)
Black Books (2001)
The Office (2002)
The Office (2003)
The Office Christmas Special (2004)
Black Books (2005)
The Thick of It (2006)
The Royle Family - The Queen of Sheba (2007)
Peep Show (2008)
The IT Crowd (2009)
The Thick of It (2010)
Rev (2011)
Mrs. Brown's Boys (2012)
Twenty Twelve (2013)
Him & Her: The Wedding (2014)
Detectorists (2015)
Peter Kay's Car Share (2016)
People Just Do Nothing (2017)
This Country (2018)
Sally4Ever (2019)
Stath Lets Flats (2020)
Inside No. 9 (2021)

Situation comedies by Richard Waring

The Charlie Drake Show (1960–1961)
Brothers in Law (1962)
Marriage Lines (1963–66)
Not in Front of the Children (1967–70)
Ukridge (1968)
Bachelor Father (1970–71)
...And Mother Makes Three (1971–73)
My Wife Next Door (1972)
(1974)
...And Mother Makes Five (1974–76)
My Honourable Mrs (1975)
(1976–78)
Miss Jones and Son (1977–78)
Rings on Their Fingers (1978–80)
(1981)
(1983)

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