Albert and Victoria
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Albert and Victoria is a British
sitcom
that aired on ITV
from 1970 to 1971. Starring Alfred Marks
, it was written by Reuben Ship
. It was made for the ITV
network by Yorkshire Television
.
In Albert and Victoria, Marks plays Albert Hackett, a middle-class man in late 19th century England
. He and his wife, Victoria, have nine children, and he is used to getting his own way.
, who had been due to play her for the entire second series. However, during the filming, Murray had a miscarriage
. She was the replaced by Frances Bennett for the final four episodes.
, who is used to getting the final word over his wife Victoria, and their five children.
from 13 June to 18 July 1970, airing on Saturday evenings at 6.45pm. On Christmas Day 1970, a short special aired as part of All-Star Comedy Carnival. A second series, also of six thirty minute episodes, aired from 14 August to 17 September 1971 on Saturday evenings, mostly at 5.40pm. While all the episodes survived the wiping
policy of the era, the 1970 Christmas short is lost and thought to have been destroyed.
United Kingdom
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sitcom
Situation comedy
A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...
that aired on ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
from 1970 to 1971. Starring Alfred Marks
Alfred Marks
Alfred Edward Marks OBE was a comic actor and comedian.-Biography:Marks was born as Ruchel Kutchinsky in Holborn, London. He left Bell Lane School at 14 and started in entertainment at the Windmill Theatre. He then served in the RAF as a Flight Sergeant in the Middle East where he arranged...
, it was written by Reuben Ship
Reuben Ship
Reuben Ship was a Canadian playwright and screenwriter best known for his 1954 radio satire The Investigator, which lampooned the Army-McCarthy Hearings and the anticommunist paranoia of the Second Red Scare.-Biography:...
. It was made for the ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
network by Yorkshire Television
Yorkshire Television
Yorkshire Television, now officially known as ITV Yorkshire and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is a British television broadcaster and the contractor for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network...
.
In Albert and Victoria, Marks plays Albert Hackett, a middle-class man in late 19th century England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. He and his wife, Victoria, have nine children, and he is used to getting his own way.
Cast
Albert and Victoria saw a large cast change between the two series, with the characters of Victoria, Emma and Maud changing actors. Zena Walker was replaced as Victoria by Barbara MurrayBarbara Murray
Barbara Ann Murray is an English actress. She was married to the actor John Justin and had three daughters, but they divorced in 1964....
, who had been due to play her for the entire second series. However, during the filming, Murray had a miscarriage
Miscarriage
Miscarriage or spontaneous abortion is the spontaneous end of a pregnancy at a stage where the embryo or fetus is incapable of surviving independently, generally defined in humans at prior to 20 weeks of gestation...
. She was the replaced by Frances Bennett for the final four episodes.
Series One
- Alfred MarksAlfred MarksAlfred Edward Marks OBE was a comic actor and comedian.-Biography:Marks was born as Ruchel Kutchinsky in Holborn, London. He left Bell Lane School at 14 and started in entertainment at the Windmill Theatre. He then served in the RAF as a Flight Sergeant in the Middle East where he arranged...
- Albert Hackett - Zena WalkerZena WalkerZena Walker was an English actress in film, theatre, and television.Walker was born in Birmingham, the daughter of George Walker, a grocer, and his wife Elizabeth Louise . She attended St. Martin's School in 1960 and then went on to train at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She starred in an...
- Victoria Hackett - John AlkinJohn AlkinJohn Alkin was a British actor turned spiritual healer.Alkin is best remembered for 2 roles, namely that of DS Tom Daniels in The Sweeney, and as barrister Barry Deeley in the long running daytime TV Drama Crown Court...
- George Hackett - Petra MarkhamPetra MarkhamPetra Markham is a British television and film actress. She is a daughter of actor David Markham and writer Olive Dehn...
- Lydia Hackett - Kika MarkhamKika MarkhamKika Markham is an English actress.Markham was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire. She is a daughter of actor David Markham and writer Olive Dehn . She has led a long career in the cinema, television, and theatre as an actress...
- Emma Hackett - Helen Cotterill - Maud
Series Two
- Alfred MarksAlfred MarksAlfred Edward Marks OBE was a comic actor and comedian.-Biography:Marks was born as Ruchel Kutchinsky in Holborn, London. He left Bell Lane School at 14 and started in entertainment at the Windmill Theatre. He then served in the RAF as a Flight Sergeant in the Middle East where he arranged...
- Albert Hackett - Barbara MurrayBarbara MurrayBarbara Ann Murray is an English actress. She was married to the actor John Justin and had three daughters, but they divorced in 1964....
- Victoria Hackett (episodes 1 and 2) - Frances Bennett - Victoria Hackett (episodes 3 to 6)
- John AlkinJohn AlkinJohn Alkin was a British actor turned spiritual healer.Alkin is best remembered for 2 roles, namely that of DS Tom Daniels in The Sweeney, and as barrister Barry Deeley in the long running daytime TV Drama Crown Court...
- George Hackett - Petra MarkhamPetra MarkhamPetra Markham is a British television and film actress. She is a daughter of actor David Markham and writer Olive Dehn...
- Lydia Hackett - Gay HamiltonGay HamiltonGay Hamilton is a Scottish actress. Her filmography notably includes Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon and Ridley Scott's The Duellists. In the late 1960s/early 1970s, she was love interest and later wife of Detective Chief Superintendent John Watt in the TV series Softly, Softly and its Taskforce...
- Emma Hackett - Julia SuttonJulia SuttonJulia Sutton is an English actress and singer who recently finished appearing as Sister Mary Lazarus in Sister Act the Musical at The London Palladium....
- Maud
Plot
Albert Hackett is a middle-class man in late 19th century BritainUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it....
, who is used to getting the final word over his wife Victoria, and their five children.
Episodes
The first series of Albert and Victoria aired for six thirty-minute episodes on ITVITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
from 13 June to 18 July 1970, airing on Saturday evenings at 6.45pm. On Christmas Day 1970, a short special aired as part of All-Star Comedy Carnival. A second series, also of six thirty minute episodes, aired from 14 August to 17 September 1971 on Saturday evenings, mostly at 5.40pm. While all the episodes survived the wiping
Wiping
Wiping or junking is a colloquial term for action taken by radio and television production and broadcasting companies, in which old audiotapes, videotapes, and telerecordings , are erased, reused, or destroyed after several uses...
policy of the era, the 1970 Christmas short is lost and thought to have been destroyed.
Series One (1970)
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