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Up Pompeii! is a British television comedy series set in ancient Pompeii and broadcast between 1969 and 1970, starring Frankie Howerd. The first series was written by Talbot Rothwell, a scriptwriter for the Carry On films, and the second series by Rothwell and Sid Colin.
Mar 23, 1970 · 23 March 1970 was the start of the first series of Up Pompeii, a repeat of the pilot shown as a Comedy Playhouse the previous year.
Up Pompeii!: With Frankie Howerd, Elizabeth Larner, Kerry Gardner, Jeanne Mockford. Lurcio is a much-put-upon slave in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii. More often than not, Lurcio finds himself keeping his owner's family members apart, in order to keep them together.
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- 1969-09-01
- Comedy, History
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Despite his many successes as a stand-up comic, both in his own series and as a guest in variety shows, it is with this relatively short-running comedy that Frankie Howerd made his greatest impact upon the British public, a sitcom in which he was cast as a Roman slave serving in Pompeii.
Jul 28, 2016 · Up Pompeii. Report. Author: Ian G Cox. Like many popular TV shows in the 60’s and 70’s Up Pompeii owes its origins to the Comedy Playhouse stable which produced many memorable sit-coms and characters.
- 28th July 2016
- Norbury Theatre
- Drama
Pompeii [a] was an ancient city in what is now the comune (municipality) of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy. Along with Herculaneum, Stabiae, and many surrounding villas, the city was buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD .
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Oct 3, 2007 · Up Pompeii! You never quite know what's going on in the heads of those godlike beings who commission comedy. Sometimes it's obvious: you commission another series of Little Britain because...
