Romany Jones(1972)
Comedy
First Air Date: 1972-02-15
Average Runtime: 30m
Rating: 6.8
Votes: 4
Seasons: 4
Episodes: 26
Romany Jones is a British sitcom created and written by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe for LWT. Broadcast between 1973 and 1975, the programme follows the comic misadventures of two layabout families living on a caravan site. Originally designed as a starring vehicle for James Beck (Dad's Army), the 1972 pilot and 1973 first series centred on Bert and Betty Jones (Jo Rowbottom), newlywed after seven years, who spend their wedding night in their rickety caravan, natural to Bert but distinctly alien to Betty, born and bred in Streatham. Most of the humour focused on life in theirs and a neighbouring caravan housing Lily and Wally Briggs (Queenie Watts and Arthur Mullard, although Arthur English was cast in the pilot). Following Beck's death after completion on the second series, Bert and Betty were written out, and replaced with a city gentleman and his debutante wife, both of whom remain blissfully oblivious to the Briggs' antics.
Keywords
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Seasons & Episodes
Series 1
Episodes: 7E01
The More We Are Together
Air Date: 1973-06-08
Betty's mother visits the caravan she is now sharing with her workshy husband, Bert
E02
The Ring
Air Date: 1973-06-15
It's taken Betty several years of hard courting to get a wedding ring; it's taken her just 7 weeks of marriage to los...
E03
Run Rabbit Run
Air Date: 1973-06-22
Bert confidently predicts that broiler rabbits will solve all his financial problems and bring the maximum of profit ...
E04
A Rough Night
Air Date: 1973-06-29
Betty's belief that she deserves better than a caravan home is underlined when Bert and Wally quarrel about a dustbin...
E05
The Competition
Air Date: 1973-07-06
Bert enters a competition to find the country's Ideal Newlyweds - and Betty nearly realises her life-long ambition of...
E06
An Addition to the Family
Air Date: 1973-07-13
Bert and Betty Jones return home late to find that a stranger has broken into their caravan. They understandably tak...
E07
Look After the Pennies
Air Date: 1973-07-20
Betty decides that if she and Bert are ever to save enough money to buy a house, she must become the breadwinner. Un...
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