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Romany Jones (1972) | ecco
Romany Jones
4
Seasons
1972
UK
6.5
Originally intended as a comedy vehicle for the star of series 1 + 2, James Beck, more famous as Private Walker in "Dad's Army": Bert Jones and his wife Betty live on a caravan site in economic crisis-hit 1970s Britain. Betty (Jo Rowbottom) has ideas above her station, including telling her mother she lives a life of luxury instead of squalor. Her mother is equally shocked by her daughter's living conditions. On her first visits, they feed her their neighbour Wally's pet chicken Florey. The series follows the misadventures of the Joneses and their busybody neighbours, Wally and Lil Briggs (Arthur Mullard and Queenie Watts). The layabout families live side by side; the neighbour spats come fast and plenty. From series three, following Beck's untimely death, two new characters were brought in: Jeremy and Susan Crichton-Jones. Mullard and Watts went on to a spin-off, "Yus, My Dear", from the creators of "On the Buses."
Episode List
S1 • E1
The More We Are Together
As if Bert and Betty haven't got enough on their plate, Betty's mother visits the caravan her daughter now shares with her workshy spouse.
S1 • E2
The Ring
It took Betty years of hard work courting to get a wedding ring, and mere weeks to lose it..
S1 • E3
Run Rabbit Run
Bert confidently predicts that broiler rabbits will solve all his financial ills.
S1 • E4
A Rough Night
Betty's belief that she deserves better than a caravan is underlined by a quarrel over a dustbin.
S1 • E5
The Competition
Bert enters an "Ideal Newlyweds" competition.
S1 • E6
An Addition to the Family
Bert and Betty return home to find a bearded intruder in their caravan.
S1 • E7
Look After the Pennies
Betty finds that Bert is as bad a homemaker as he is everything else.