Hark at Barker(1969)
Comedy
First Air Date: 1969-04-11
Average Runtime: 30m
Rating: 6.5
Votes: 3
Seasons: 2
Episodes: 15
Hark at Barker is a 1969 British programme 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 on a different topic each week from his stately home, Chrome Hall. Helped and hindered by Rustless' secretary Bates, his Butler Badger, his bad-tempered Cook, his incoherent gardener Dithers and his buxom, near-mute maid Effie, these lectures invariably degenerated into farce, and were frequently interrupted by comic sketches on film or videotape which also starred Barker in various roles. Barker reprised the role of Lord Rustless in the BBC series His Lordship Entertains, and played very similar characters in Futtock's End and the Two Ronnies specials The Picnic and By the Sea.
Keywords
sketch comedysitcom
Seasons & Episodes
Series 1
Episodes: 8E01
Meet Lord Rustless
Air Date: 1969-04-11
No episode overview available.
E02
Rustless & Women
Air Date: N/A
No episode overview available.
E03
Rustless In Pigtails
Air Date: 1969-04-25
No episode overview available.
E04
Rustless & A Banquet
Air Date: N/A
No episode overview available.
E05
Rustless & Murder
Air Date: N/A
No episode overview available.
E06
Rustless & Foreigners
Air Date: N/A
No episode overview available.
E07
Rustless & The Solar System
Air Date: N/A
No episode overview available.
E08
Rustless & Relics
Air Date: N/A
No episode overview available.
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