Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em Series 1 Created and written by Raymond Allen, directed by Michael Mills. The first series aired in February and March 1973. There were two more series after that.
Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice are a married couple called Frank and Betty. Betty works, Frank can't hold a job. He can't hold much of anything in his hands either. He's a catastrophic force that damages nearly everything he comes in contact with. At his best Frank manages to destroy a multi million dollar computer, at home it's the appliances, furniture, walls, doors, windows that suffer. On their second honeymoon Frank smashes up the furniture and creates a hole in the floor of the hotel. It's havoc everywhere he goes. For the sake of the nation he should be kept in and away from everything and everyone. Frank isn't just clumsy and accident prone. He's somehow mentally challenged, he misinterprets just about everything anyone tells him.
It was a fairly popular show and the havoc is kind of fun but the episodes are the same as each other and the joke wears thin after a series of only 7 episodes. I bought the set and I'm not sure I'll bother with the other 2 series. I'll wait a bit at any rate.
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