Ok, so I know I'm late to the party, but I just watched the first two series of the British sitcom Two's Company with Elaine Stritch and Donald Sinden and I am obsessed. Though you can tell it was during Stritch's particularly boozy period, it sort of adds to the intrigue of waiting to see what she'll do next. The final Christmas episode of series 2 had me in tears and I had to watch Stritch deliver one particular line about six times in a row. It's a very different style than other British sitcoms of the 70s, but I definitely rank it as one of my favorites and one I'll watch again and again. I can't wait to see series 3 & 4. I don't know how I'd missed this before.
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This used to get screened at about 10:00pm on a Sunday evening and I used to have to beg my parents to let me stay up and watch it.
When this finished she did another sitcom on UK television that was very typical of the period and set in British middle-class suburbia. It didn't last long and its name escapes me but the interesting thing is that Richard Griffiths played her husband. A most unlikely couple.
I loved it too...I remember it on PBS in the mid 80s.
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PBS in New York City showed this a few years ago. It seems like every episode Stritch brays "Robert!!!". But it was a good pairing: brash American woman, reserved British man. It's almost like they took the personalities of Edward & Wallis and created a scenario for them.
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I only began watching this great show after Elaine Stritch's death, and now Donald Sinden has died too, which I thought was worth a bump. Another great performer gone. Donald Sinden obituary (The Guardian)
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Maybe it's a generational thing. I remember watching a couple of episodes at my Uncle's insistence a few years ago and not connecting with the thing at all - despite loving a lot of Britcoms and, of course, adoring Stritch. I remember thinking the whole thing made Are You Being Served seem sophisticated. Perhaps I'll give it another shot, though.