Abigail and Roger

Abigail and Roger
Genre	Sitcom
Starring	Julie Webb; David Drummond; Rosina Enright; John Stone; Grace Denbigh-Russell
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	9
Production
Running time	20 minutes
Release
Original network	BBC Television Service
Original release	4 July –; 29 August 1956

Abigail and Roger is a British television sitcom that aired on the BBC Television Service in 1956. It was written by Kelvin Sheldon. The programme saw Julie Webb and David Drummond play Abigail and Roger, an engaged couple living in London bedsits. The series is thought to no longer exist.

Cast

Julie Webb – Abigail
David Drummond – Roger
Rosina Enright – Shirl
John Stone – Clive
Grace Denbigh-Russell – Mrs Moloch

Plot

Abigail and Roger are an engaged couple living separately in bedsits in London. Abigail is a shorthand typist, who is outspoken and very capable domestically, she can mend a fuse, cook, drive and so on. Roger works in the City and is into keeping fit and planning for their future. Much of the humour arose from the different attitudes to life, and their interest in the attractions of London.

Episodes

The show was originally meant to run for thirteen weeks, as a summer replacement for the soap opera The Grove Family, but in fact only ran for nine weeks. The entire series is thought to be lost.

Episode No.	Original Broadcast Date
1	4 July 1956
2	11 July 1956
3	18 July 1956
4	25 July 1956
5	1 August 1956
6	8 August 1956
7	15 August 1956
8	22 August 1956
9	29 August 1956

gollark: How odd. You'd expect them to have direct mass→energy conversion or something ridiculous like that.

gollark: If you convert, I don't know, a few hundred tons of mass to energy, you could *probably* blow up the earth?

gollark: Ah yes, so now you need to have insanely huge amounts of energy, very helpful.

gollark: You do need to have available matter to convert on the other end, and the whole concept is very hard to implement.

gollark: If you disæssemble something into its constituent particles or something, record every detail of their state (which might be impossible too?) and transmit it to another thing which reassembles it, that's lightspeed teleportation, ish.

References

Mark Lewisohn, "Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy", BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2003
British TV Comedy Guide for Abigail And Roger

External links

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