"After Henry" (1988) TV series 1988-1992

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Directors:

Peter Frazer-Jones
Liddy Oldroyd

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Release Date:

4 January 1988 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot Keywords:

Widow | Based On Radio Series | Sitcom

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Prunella Scales	...	Sarah France (25 episodes, 1988-1992)
Joan Sanderson	...	Eleanor Prescott (25 episodes, 1988-1992)
Janine Wood	...	Clare France (25 episodes, 1988-1992)
Jonathan Newth	...	Russell Bryant (25 episodes, 1988-1992)

Runtime:

30 min (38 episodes)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Certification:

Australia:G

Company:

Thames Television

Trivia:

Joan Sanderson died on 24 May 1992, between the recording and transmission of the fourth series.

Movie Connections:

Version of "Zonder Ernst" (1992)

Better in its original form as a BBC radio series.

Television chiefs in Britain, desperate for new comedy ideas, seize on any successful radio series. When it first appeared, the idea of three generations of women under the same roof, and the sympathetic depiction of a gay man not in the first flush of youth were quite fresh. "After Henry" lost something in the transfer to TV, possibly because on TV it made fewer demands on the imagination. The cast, principally Joan Sanderson (qv) as Prunella Scales's mother and Benjamin Whitrow (qv) as the bookshop owner, were fresher, too.