Box set: Rising Damp The Complete TV Series Plus the Movie

Rising Damp: Season 3

Acorn Media (1977)

Comedy

/ Color / 170 mins

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#867

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Plot

Rumour has it that somewhere deep in the rain forests of South America, there still exist undiscovered tribes of people completely cut off from civilisation, untouched by technology, and oblivious to the existence of the great world beyond the waterfall. If this is so, then these people are quite possibly the only humans on the entire planet that have never stood with hands on hips, nodded their heads vigorously back and forth and uttered the line "Yes, Miss Jones." Certainly everyone else, however, has. Such is the legendary status of one miserly, prejudiced, scheming and generally unlikeable bed-sit landlord called Rigsby. Rising Damp originated as a script for a stage play, The Banana Box, in 1970. It's author, Eric Chappell, was inspired by a newspaper article about a black man who had guested at a hotel for a year, pretending to be an African prince as a means of avoiding discrimination. The play enjoyed a short lived run in 1

Cast

	Leonard Lossiter; Francesca De Bowles
	John Clive
	Derek Newark
	Frances de la Tour
	Gabrielle Rose
	Christopher Strauli
	Leonard Rossiter
	Don Warrington
	Helen Fraser
	Richard Beckinsale
	Judy Buxton

Crew

Director

Ronnie Baxter

Episodes

Disc 01

That's My Boy

30 mins 12/04/1977

Rigsby returns from his holidays to find that Ruth has returned and that an infant is being passed around for care.

Stage Struck

30 mins 19/04/1977

When Alan and Ruth are cast as lovers in a play written by a new tenant, Hillary, a jealous Rigsby decides to take up acting.

Clunk Click

30 mins 26/04/1977

Rigsby tries to impress Ruth with a fancy new car.

The Good Samaritan

30 mins 03/05/1977

Even the callous Rigsby becomes concerned over a depressed new tenant who has suffered a series of business and personal problems.

Fawcett's Python

30 mins 10/05/1977

Ruth becomes indignant with Marilyn, the new tenant, who is an exotic dancer with an unusual prop in her act.

The Cocktail Hour

30 mins 17/05/1977

Alan becomes engaged to a girl from a snobbish family.

Suddenly at Home

30 mins 24/05/1977

Rigsby jumps to a drastic conclusion when a hypochondriac tenant is taken to the hospital.

Edition Details

Series	Rising Damp
Release Date	2005
Packaging	Custom Case
No. of Disks/Tapes	1

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