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Man About The House review by from KEYWORTH

5 March 2004
...gh, with cameo appearances from Spike Milligan, Bill Grundy, Rudolph Walker and Jack Smethurst (the latter both from Love Thy Neighbour). Stick this film on some wet afternoo... Read customer review

Jack Smethurst - filmography

Love Thy Neighbour - The Complete Series 7 on DVD (1975)
Starring: Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Nina Baden-Semper
Director: Anthony Parker, Anthony Parker
Certificate:
A television comedy which centres around the relationship between two neighbours, as they attempt to live and work together, and their long suffering wives. Features all the episodes from the seventh series.

81% from 134 members

Man About The House (1974)
Starring: Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox, Sally Thomsett
Director: John Robins
Certificate:
MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE is another title in the 1970's trend of UK sitcoms being turned in feature length films. Student lay about Robin shares his flat with two attractive girls Chrissie and Jo, which they rent from George Roper and his wife Mildred (who would go on to have their own spin-off series). ..read more »

66% from 377 members
Not currently released

Love Thy Neighbour on DVD (1973)
Starring: Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Nina Baden-Semper
Director: John Robins
Certificate:
Shockingly politically incorrect to modern audiences perhaps, the TV series ran to more than 50 episodes. This feature-length outing for the bickering black vs white neighbours illustrates our own levels of bigotry and intolerance, but here shrouded in shameless humour. When a West Indian family ..read more »

68% from 1,109 member

Love Thy Neighbour - The Complete Series... (4 discs) on DVD (1972)
Starring: Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Nina Baden-Semper
Director: Stuart Allen
Certificate:
"A true comedy that has been kept in the vaults for the sake of political correctness." Indeed, this hugely successful 1970s TV comedy, in hindsight, sought to mock our own ignorance, intolerance and pervading racial stereotypes of other cultures, when a black family move in next door to the white ..read more »

73% from 71 members

Love Thy Neighbour - The Complete Series 2 (4 discs) on DVD (1972)
Starring: Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Nina Baden-Semper
Director: Anthony Parker, Anthony Parker, Ronnie Baxter
Certificate:
The Complete second season of the cult 70's TV Comedy plus 2 bonus episodes! One of the highest rated sitcoms of the 1970s, attracting 16 million viewers at the peak of its popularity, Love Thy Neighbour explores the culture clash between black and white neighbours Bill Reynolds and Eddie Booth.

68% from 978 members

Love Thy Neighbour - The Complete Series 8 on DVD
Starring: Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Nina Baden-Semper
Director: Anthony Parker, Anthony Parker
Certificate:
A television comedy which centres around the relationship between two neighbours, as they attempt to live and work together, and their long suffering wives. Features all the episodes from the eighth series.

83% from 126 members

Human Jungle - Complete Series
Starring: Sally Smith, Margaret Lockwood, Rita Tushingham
Director: Sidney Hayers, Don Sharp, Charles Crichton
Certificate:
Herbert Lom is Dr. Roger Corder in this classic series. A widower in his mid-forties, Corder spends his life analysing others and finds himself being a sort of detective helping those who approach him with their problems. Includes every episode from the series.

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Love Thy Neighbour - The Complete Series 6 on DVD
Starring: Rudolph Walker, Kate Williams, Tommy Godfrey
Director: Anthony Parker, Anthony Parker
Certificate:
The complete sixth season of the cult 70's TV Comedy! One of the highest rated sitcoms of the 1970s, attracting 16 million viewers at the peak of its popularity, Love Thy Neighbour explores the culture clash between black and white neighbours Bill Reynolds and Eddie Booth.

79% from 138 members

Love Thy Neighbour - The Complete Series 3 (4 discs) on DVD
Starring: Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Nina Baden-Semper
Director: Ronnie Baxter
Certificate:
A television comedy which centres around the relationship between two neighbours, as they attempt to live and work together, and their long suffering wives. Features the complete episodes from the third series.

82% from 25 members

For The Love Of Ada on DVD
Starring: Wilfred Pickles, Irene Handl, Barbara Mitchell
Certificate:
Ada and Walter Bingley are about to reach their first wedding anniversary. Unknown to them, their daughter and son-in-law have arranged a surprise party, but things don't go quite as planned...

58% from 138 members

Love Thy Neighbour - The Complete Series 4
Starring: Rudolph Walker, Jack Smethurst, Nina Baden-Semper
Director: Ronnie Baxter
Certificate:
A television comedy which centres around the relationship between two neighbours, as they attempt to live and work together, and their long suffering wives.

85% from 2 members
Currently unavailable

Jack Smethurst facts

5 most recent films

Love Thy Neighbour - The Complete Series 7 - 4.0 stars
Man About The House - 3.5 stars
Love Thy Neighbour - 3.5 stars
Love Thy Neighbour - The Complete Series 1 Plus Original Pilot Episode - 3.5 stars
Love Thy Neighbour - The Complete Series 2 - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Love Thy Neighbour - The Complete Series 8 - 4.0 stars
Love Thy Neighbour - The Complete Series 7 - 4.0 stars
Love Thy Neighbour - The Complete Series 6 - 4.0 stars
Love Thy Neighbour - The Complete Series 1 Plus Original Pilot Episode - 3.5 stars
Love Thy Neighbour - The Complete Series 2 - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Human Jungle - Complete Series - 3 stars
Love Thy Neighbour - The Complete Series 4 - 3.5 stars
Love Thy Neighbour - The Complete Series 3 - 4.0 stars
For The Love Of Ada - 3.0 stars
Man About The House - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Rudolph Walker - 21 times - show films
Nina Baden-Semper - 20 times - show films
Kate Williams - 18 times - show films
Paul Luty - 1 times - show films
Sally Thomsett - 1 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Ronnie Baxter - 11 times - show films
Stuart Allen - 10 times - show films
Anthony Parker - 8 times - show films
Anthony Parker - 4 times - show films
John Robins - 2 times - show films

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