Hark at Barker (Hark at Barker)

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Ronnie Barker
Lord Rustless

Josephine Tewson
Mildred Bates / ...

Mary Baxter
Cook

David Jason
Dithers / ...

Moira Foot
Effie / ...

Jan Rossini
Exercise girl / ...

Jo Kendall
W.P.C. Dixon

Jacqueline Clarke
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Ronnie Barker

Bill Oddie
(7 episodes, 1969)

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Description: Hark at Barker is a 1969 British comedy series combining elements of sitcom and sketch show, which starred Ronnie Barker. It was made for the ITV network by LWT. Each show began with a spoof news item read by Barker as a continuity announcer. He would then introduce the main part of the programme, a lecture to be given by Lord Rustless (also Barker) on a different topic each week from his stately home, Chrome Hall. Helped and hindered by Rustless' secretary (Mildred) Bates, his Butler Badger, his bad-tempered Cook, his incoherent gardener Dithers and (in Series 2) his buxom, near-mute maid Effie, these lectures invariably deg ... (more)

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"Years: 1969-70 Broadcaster: ITV (LWT) Genre: Sitcom, Sketch Written by*: Peter Caulfield, Gerald Wiley, Bernard McKenna, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, John Brendan, John Junkin, Eric Idle, Chris Miller, Mike Sharland, Robert E. Bailey, Tony Baird, Andy Baker, Phillipe Le Bars, Cyril Bell, Geoff Rowley, Lew Schwarz Stars: Ronnie Barker, Josephine Tewson Episodes: 15 Episode Average: 7.867BEST EPISODES: Rustless on Law (1970), Rustless on Medicine (1970)*Paul Caulfield was a pseudonym of Alan Ayckbou"

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"CLICK HERE FOR THE LIST Years: 1969-70 Broadcaster: ITV (LWT) Genre: Sitcom, Sketch Written by: Peter Caulfield, Gerald Wiley, Bernard McKenna, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, John Brendan, John Junkin, Eric Idle, Chris Miller, Mike Sharland, Robert E. Bailey, Tony Baird, Andy Baker, Phillipe Le Bars, Cyril Bell, Geoff Rowley, Lew Schwarz 1 Stars: Ronnie Barker, Josephine Tewson Episodes: 15 Episode Average: 7.867 BEST EPISODES: Rustless on Law (1970), Rustless on Medicine (1970)"