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The Misfit (TV series)

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Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

No. of episodes
  
13

First episode date
  
3 March 1970

Network
  
ITV

Program creator
  
Roy Clarke

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Created by
  
Roy Clarke

No. of series
  
2

Producer(s)
  
ATV

Final episode date
  
12 April 1971

Number of episodes
  
13

Starring
  
Ronald Fraser Patrick Newell Simon Ward Susan Carpenter

Cast
  
Ronald Fraser, Simon Ward, Patrick Newell

Similar
  
The Bass Player and the Blonde, Potter, Rosie, The Wanderer, The Magnificent Evans

The Misfit was an ATV sitcom series written by Roy Clarke and was broadcast from 1970 to 1971 on ITV.

Contents

Premise

Basil Allenby-Johnson ("Badger" for short) returned from a colonial life in Malaya to an England he no longer recognised. Each episode explored Badger's response to a different aspect of modern life in a Britain which had just emerged from the Swinging Sixties.

Cast

  • Basil "Badger" Allenby-Johnson - Ronald Fraser
  • Stanley (his brother) - Patrick Newell
  • Ted (his son) - Simon Ward
  • Alicia (his daughter-in-law) - Susan Carpenter

    • Awards

    The 1970 Writers Guild Award for the best writer of a British TV series went to Roy Clarke for this series.

    References

    The Misfit (TV series) Wikipedia
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