6.2 /10 1 Votes
5.4/10 TV Country of origin United Kingdom No. of series 3 Final episode date 5 September 1972 Number of episodes 18 | 7.2/10 IMDb Original language(s) English First episode date 5 November 1970 Network ITV | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Keith WaterhouseWillis Hall Starring Diana DorsFreddie FletcherBrian MarshallBarrie RutterTony CaunterLynne PerrieBryan Mosley Cast Similar All Our Saturdays, The Ghost of Ivy Tilsley, Just William, The Blonde Bombshell, The Unforgettable | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Queenie's Castle is a British sitcom set in early 1970s Leeds, West Yorkshire. The series was made for the ITV by Yorkshire Television and aired from 1970 to 1972. The series starred popular British actress Diana Dors.
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Plot
Starring Diana Dors as the eponymous Queenie Shepherd, the series revolved around the lives and, often illegal, activities of the residents of a tower block in early 1970s Leeds, West Yorkshire. Queenie's husband Lionel never appears, leaving the neighbours and viewers alike to assume he is in prison. Various excuses are made, such as "He's working on the motorway in Carlisle", but this changed throughout the series.
The family's archenemy, Mrs Petty, lives on a ground floor flat and runs a cake shop in a row of shops at the bottom of the flats. Mrs Petty's main friend is Mrs Blakely who also dislikes the Shepherds. Although Mrs Petty is seen to live in a ground floor flat—and this is made perfectly obvious throughout the series—on more than one occasion she claims to live next door to the Shepherds, who quite clearly live several floors up.
Production
Produced by Yorkshire Television, the scripts were written by Keith Waterhouse (author of Billy Liar) and Willis Hall. The remaining four episodes of series one were recorded in black and white due to the ITV colour strike.
Although the location was unspecified on screen, parts of the series were filmed in Quarry Hill, Leeds—the council flats, where it was filmed have since been demolished. They were notable as the first council flats of their kind, built in art deco style in the 1930s. For a photograph of the flats see the Leodis database [1][2] and their demolition a few years after the end of the series [3]
Cast
Episodes
Series 1
Series 2
Series 3
DVD releases
All three series of Queenie's Castle were released (separately) by Simply Media in May 2009. Network DVD has released a three-disc box set of the complete series in August 2009.