Meet the Huggetts

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Popular sitcom with Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison

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A mix-up at the launderette causes embarrassment for Joe and Ethel.

A mix-up at the launderette causes embarrassment for Joe and Ethel. Stars Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison. From June 1959.

A mix-up at the launderette sparks a whole pile of embarrassment for Joe and Ethel Huggett.

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
Jane    ......    Alanna Boyce 
Bobby    ......    James Langley
Fred Stebbings    ......    Charles Leno  
Detective    ......    Alan Keith

Producer: Jacques Brown

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1959.

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