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  1. Thora Hird. In Loving Memory: The Complete Series. £34.99. Released: 18th October 2010. All 35 episodes plus the 1982 Christmas special from the late 1970s sitcom set in a funeral home, starring Thora Hird. Written by Dick Sharples, the series stars Thora Hird as the accident-prone Ivy Unsworth, who runs the home with her gormless nephew Billy ...

  2. Oct 31, 2011 · Eager to inject some humour into the series, producer Innes Lloyd called upon experienced scriptwriter, Dick Sharples, to come up with a story that would inject a lighter tone into Doctor Who. That adventure was The Prison in Space, originally envisioned to write out the character of Jamie and introduce a new companion called Nik - and it's a story that was just a hair's-breadth away from ...

  3. Dick Sharples's films include George and Mildred, Adam Adamant Lives!, Dr Finlay's Casebook, Ghost Squad

  4. Dick Sharples? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: When I strained a muscle recently a friend told me that the injury was nature’s way of telling me to slow down. Another friend quipped: Death is nature’s way of telling you to slow down.

  5. Cast. Thora Hird. Ivy Unsworth. Christopher Beeny. Billy Henshaw. Colin Farrell. Ernie Hadfield. Avis Bunnage. Amy Jenkinson (Series 1-3)

  6. In Loving Memory. In Loving Memory. TV sitcom. ITV1. 1969 - 1986. 37 episodes (5 series) Comedy about an auntie and nephew, Ivy and Billy, who run a family undertakers' business in 1920s Yorkshire. Stars Thora Hird, Christopher Beeny, Colin Farrell, Avis Bunnage, Sherrie Hewson and more. Like this.

  7. Nov 3, 2015 · Veteran comedy scriptwriter Dick Sharples has died at the age of 88. His most successful series was In Loving Memory, set in an undertakers in the 1930s as the business was moving from horse-drawn hearses to cars. The sitcom, pictured, ran for five series from 1979 and starred Thora Hird and Christopher Beeny.