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Genre Sitcom Country of origin United Kingdom First episode date 7 January 1985 Number of seasons 3 Networks ITV, Thames Television | 5.7/10 IMDb Theme music composer Harry Stoneham No. of series 3 Final episode date 19 November 1986 Number of episodes 20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Created by Johnnie Mortimer
Brian Cooke Starring Christopher Strauli
Sabina Franklyn
Brian Capron
Natalie Forbes
Diana King
Joan Sanderson Cast Joan Sanderson, Sabina Franklyn, Brian Capron, Christopher Strauli, Diana King Similar Tom - Dick and Harriet, Alcock and Gander, Check It Out!, Tripper's Day, Slinger's Day |
Full house very funny moments all 8 seasons
Full House is a British sitcom which aired for three series from 1985 to 1986. It was the last sitcom to be jointly co-created by the sitcom writing team of Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke, however, it was mainly written by Mortimer alone, with Mortimer writing 12 episodes alone, along with a further 3 with Cooke, while another veteran sitcom writer, Vince Powell, contributed another 3.
Contents
- Full house very funny moments all 8 seasons
- Full house the beginning
- Plot
- Series One 1985
- Series Two 1985
- Series Three 1986
- Production
- References
It starred Christopher Strauli, Sabina Franklyn, Brian Capron and Natalie Forbes, with Diana King, who was later replaced by Joan Sanderson.
It was made by Thames Television for the ITV network.
Full house the beginning
Plot
The show revolved around two young couples, the Hatfields and the McCoys. Paul Hatfield (played by Strauli) and his wife Marsha (played by Franklyn), married for three years, and up to then living with Paul's mother (played in the first two series by King and then by Sanderson in the third), finally find their ideal home. However, they are unable to meet the mortgage repayments, so they invite Murray McCoy (played by Capron) and his girlfriend Diana (played by Forbes), who are also in the same situation, to join them and move in with them, contributing to the payment of the house. In the final episode of the series, the McCoys are married, and they have a baby.
Series One (1985)
Series Two (1985)
Series Three (1986)
Production
In common with many other Thames sitcoms from the 1980s, the format of Full House was sold to the US, via the American producer Don L. Taffner, who had a close relationship with Thames and had distributed Thames programmes in the States in both format and syndication. Taffner sold the format to CBS, and his production company made a pilot entitled No Place Like Home, starring Jack Blessing and Susan Hess as the married couple and Rick Lohman and Molly Cheek as the unmarried couple. It aired on CBS on 6 September 1985, but it failed to develop into a full series.
However, the original British series did eventually air in the US in syndication, but by then the more famous American family sitcom also entitled Full House had premiered, so it was renamed Mixed Doubles in the US so as to avoid confusion.