Meet the Huggetts

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Joe and Fred's attempt to teach their wives a lesson backfires.

Joe and Fred's attempt to teach their wives a lesson backfires. Stars Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison. From September 1957.

Joe Huggett and neighbour Fred's attempt to teach their wives a lesson backfires.

Starring Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison. 

The popular working-class Huggett family first hit the cinema screen with a series of Gainsborough films between 1947 and 1949. 

This subsequent BBC radio series ran from 1953 to 1962.  

Selection of surviving episodes in the BBC Archive.  

Written by Eddie Maguire.

Joe …. Jack Warner
Ethel …. Kathleen Harrison
Bobby …. George Howell
Jane …. Marion Collins
Fred Stebbings …. Charles Leno
Clara …. Molly Lumley
Insurance Salesman …. Kenneth Connor

Producer: Jacques Brown

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September 1957.

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