Friends and Neighbours is a Britcom that aired on BBC1 in 1954, starring Peter Butterworth, Janet Brown, Benny Lee, and Avril Angers.
The series was about two married couples - George and Constance Bird (Butterworth and Brown), and Arthur and Maisie Honeybee (Lee and Angers) - who lived in flats in a converted Victorian house in London.
This wasn't the cast's first series together, as they had all previously appeared in Terry-Thomas' series How Do You View?, which was also written by Sid Colin and Talbot Rothwell.
The series was aired live and now all six episodes are lost.
Not to be mistaken for the 1959 film or lost 1969 series of the same name.
Friends and Tropers:
- British Brevity: Only one series of six episodes was made.
- The Klutz: George isn't the most coordinated, often doing things such as tripping over vacuum cleaners and collapsing a card table.
- Punny Name: The two couples in the series are the Birds and the Honeybees, a play on the birds and the bees.
- Short-Runners: The series ran for only six episodes.
