It’s quite possible that this is the only ITV sitcom sitting behind a door. Hope It Rains was written by John Esmonde & Bob Larbey, and starred Tom Bell and Holly Aird.
In the 1991 opening episode, wax museum owner Harry Nash meets his 18 year-old god-daughter for the first time. The title comes from the fact that people will only walk into the museum on rainy days in the failing tourist seaside town, and this premise is nicely presented in the opening shot of the series.
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For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…
Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…
