Eric Chappell

'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter

A compilation of the many characters played by Leonard Rossiter.

Release Date1996-08-16

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

The Unforgettable Leonard Rossiter

Tribute to the much-loved character actor.

Release Date2000-09-25

Charactersd Self

Natural Causes

Comedy thriller. Walter Bryce hires the professional services of the sinister Vincent to eliminate his rich, neurotic wife, Celia. All this to achieve a place in the sun with his secretary Angie. What seems to be a neat idea goes wrong when Vincent becomes involved on a personal level.

Release Date1988-09-11

DepartmentCrew

JobScript

Home to Roost

Home to Roost is a British television sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television in the 1980s. Written by Eric Chappell, it starred John Thaw as Henry Willows and Reece Dinsdale as his 18-year-old son Matthew. The premise is that Henry Willows is forty-something, who has been divorced from his wife for seven years and is perfectly happy living alone in London. That is, until his youngest child, Matthew arrives to live with him, after being thrown out by his mother. The plots generally revolved around Henry's annoyance at having his solitude disturbed, and the age gap clash. Henry employed two cleaners throughout the show's life; first Enid Thompson, and, in the third season, Fiona Fennell.

Release Date1985-04-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count22

Vote Count3

Duty Free

Duty Free is a British sitcom written by Eric Chappell and Jean Warr that aired on ITV from 1984 to 1986. It was made by Yorkshire Television.

Release Date1984-02-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count22

Vote Count9

Sjukan

Release Date1995-09-15

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Only When I Laugh

Only When I Laugh is an ITV1 sitcom broadcast from 29 October 1979 to 16 December 1982 for four series with seven episodes each, and a Christmas special in 1981. The title is the answer to the question, "Does it hurt?" A naïve middle-class man is admitted to an NHS hospital ward, shared with a working-class layabout and an upper-class hypochondriac. The trio never fail to cause a nuisance for the poor, unsuspecting staff.

Release Date1979-10-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count29

Vote Count13

Rising Damp

Set in a seedy bedsit, the cowardly landlord Rigsby has his conceits debunked by his long suffering tenants.

Release Date1974-09-02

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count29

Rising Damp

Stingy landlord Rigsby manages to scam his lodgers John, an art student, and Philip, an African medical student, making both pay for a room they must share. However Rigsby's favorite lodger, Miss Jones, flirts with Philip rather than him, despite his pitiful attempts at seduction.

Release Date1980-05-03

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count17

The Bounder

The Bounder is a British sitcom which ran from 16 April 1982 to 28 October 1983, made by Yorkshire Television. The series starred Peter Bowles as Howard Booth, an ex-convict who served two years in jail. He lives with Trevor Mountjoy who's his brother in law, and his wife Mary Rosalind Ayres. The latter left after Series one in 1982. It also starred Isla Blair as the next door widowed neighbour, Laura Miles. This series was created by Eric Chappell.

Release Date1982-04-16

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count3

You Again?

You Again? is an American situation comedy based on the British sitcom "Home To Roost" that was broadcast by NBC from February 27, 1986, to March 30, 1987, for two seasons. When Matthew Willows (John Stamos) was 10 years old, his parents got divorced, and Matthew chose to live with his mother. Now, seven years later, he's on his father's doorstep—and his dad, Henry Willows (Jack Klugman), is not thrilled. This kid is less than a model teenager: he drinks, he smokes, he curses, he lies. Not that Henry, a grouchy old bird, is any prize himself. But Matt moves in "temporarily." Henry makes him drop most of those bad habits, and Matt brings a little youthful exuberance into the Willows household, which includes Enid (Elizabeth Bennett), the part-time housekeeper.

Release Date1986-02-27

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count3

The Squirrels

The Squirrels is a British television sitcom, written by Eric Chappell, who went on to create the Yorkshire Television sitcoms Rising Damp and Only When I Laugh. It ran for 3 series and 28 episodes and was made and broadcast from 1974 to 1977 on the ITV network, by ATV. Phil Redmond, the creator of now defunct Soap-Opera Brookside, was also a writer for the series.

Release Date1974-07-08

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count2

Fiddlers Three

Sitcom following the office politics in an accounts department. A sequel to The Squirrels.

Release Date1991-02-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Singles

Singles is a British sitcom set in a singles bar produced by Yorkshire Television. It aired for 3 series and 22 episodes on the ITV network between 1988 and 1991. Main character Malcolm, played by Roger Rees, was written out in the final series after Rees relocated to the United States, with Simon Cadell joining the cast in his place as Dennis Duval.

Release Date1988-01-27

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

Tax Free

A Dutch comedy series that aired on TROS.

Release Date1992-11-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count19

Coup de sangria

Release Date2013-09-12

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play