5.8 /10 1 Votes
5.5/10 TV Country of origin United Kingdom First episode date 3 September 1980 Network BBC One Program creators David Croft, Jeremy Lloyd | 6.2/10 IMDb Genre Sitcom No. of series 1 Final episode date 8 October 1980 Number of episodes 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Created by Jeremy Lloyd
David Croft Written by Jeremy Lloyd
David Croft Starring Harry Worth
Margaret Clifton
Jonathan Cecil
John Horsley
Billy Burden
Tom Mennard Cast Harold Bennett, Jan Holden, Billy Burden, John Horsley, Jonathan Cecil Similar Come Back Mrs Noah, Which Way to the War, Are You Being Served?, Grace & Favour, Oh - Doctor Beeching! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oh Happy Band! is a BBC television sitcom written by David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd. The series ran for six episodes in 1980 on BBC 1, and featured the last screen appearance of comedian Harry Worth. For musical sequences, the series featured the Aldershot Brass Ensemble. Since broadcast, the series has not been repeated or released on any home consumer media.
Contents
Oh happy band opening theme tune and titles
Plot
Harry (Harry Worth) is the conductor of a brass band in the small (fictional) northern town of Nettlebridge. During the course of the series, he and his fellow band members become involved in a campaign to prevent the building of a new airport over their town.
Cast
Reception
Mark Lewisohn, writing in the BBC Guide to Comedy writes: "An odd amalgam of ideas from established sitcom creators Lloyd and Croft...Considering the usual dependability of the major protagonists here, it is fair to say that Oh Happy Band! was flat rather than sharp."