Happy Ever After is a British

United Kingdom

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 sitcom

British sitcom

A British sitcom tends, as it does in most other countries, to be based on a family, workplace or other institution, where the same group of contrasting characters is brought together in each episode. Unlike American sitcoms, where twenty or more episodes in a season is the norm, British sitcoms...

 starring Terry Scott

Terry Scott

Owen John "Terry" Scott was an English actor and comedian who appeared in seven Carry On films. He also appeared in BBC1's popular domestic sitcom Terry and June with June Whitfield...

 and June Whitfield

June Whitfield

June Rosemary Whitfield, CBE is an English actress, well known in the United Kingdom since the 1950s for roles in radio and television comedy series....

. It aired from 1974 to 1978 and was written by John T. Chapman, Eric Merriman

Eric Merriman

Eric Hugh Peter Merriman was a prolific British radio and television writer, who provided material for comedians including Frankie Howerd, Terry Scott and Morecambe and Wise....

, Christopher Bond, John Kane

John Kane (writer)

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 and Jon Watkins. After Happy Ever After ended Scott and Whitfield starred in Terry and June

Terry and June

Terry and June is a British sitcom that was broadcast on BBC1 from 1979 to 1987. The programme is largely a continuation of Happy Ever After, and stars Terry Scott and June Whitfield as a middle-class suburban couple, Terry and June Medford...

from 1979 to 1987, a sitcom that was much the same as Happy Ever After, minus Aunt Lucy, with Terry and June`s surname changed from "Fletcher" to "Medford", and the characters shifted to Purley.

Cast

• Terry Scott
  Terry Scott
  Owen John "Terry" Scott was an English actor and comedian who appeared in seven Carry On films. He also appeared in BBC1's popular domestic sitcom Terry and June with June Whitfield...
  
   - Terry Fletcher
• June Whitfield
  June Whitfield
  June Rosemary Whitfield, CBE is an English actress, well known in the United Kingdom since the 1950s for roles in radio and television comedy series....
  
   - June Fletcher
• Beryl Cooke
  Beryl Cooke
  Beryl Cooke was a British actress. Her career spanned six decades; she is most familiar to British audiences as Aunt Lucy in the sitcom Happy Ever After and Mrs...
  
   - Aunt Lucy
• Lena Clemo - Susan Fletcher (pilot)
• Pippa Page - Susan Fletcher (from series 1)
• Caroline Whitaker - Debbie Fletcher

Plot

Terry and June Fletcher are a middle-aged, middle-class couple who find themselves alone when their grown-up children, daughters Susan and Debbie, leave home. However, they are not alone for long as Aunt Lucy comes to live with them, along with her talking mynah bird

Myna

The myna is a bird of the starling family . This is a group of passerine birds which occur naturally only in southern and eastern Asia...

. Terry frequently hits upon an idea, which due to his foolhardy and obsessive manner he then continues with whatever the consequences, while June remains patient and tolerant.

Series One (1974)

1. The Hotel (17 Jul 74)"
2. Terry's Church Sermon (31 Jul 74)"
3. Amateur Dramatics (7 Aug 74)
4. The French Businessman (14 Aug 74)"
5. Keep Fit (21 Aug 74)

Series Two (1976)

1. A Country Cottage (8 Jan 76)
2. Old Folks' Party (15 Jan 76)
3. Lucy's Premium Bond (22 Jan 76)"
4. Telemania (29 Jan 76)"
5. Terry in Court (5 Feb 76)"
6. The Flower Show (12 Feb 76)"
7. June's Day in Bed (19 Feb 76)"
8. Frank's Return (26 Feb 76)"
9. Filming the Fletchers (4 Mar 76)
10. The Novel (11 Mar 76)"

Series Three (1976)

1. Foster Parents (9 Sep 76"
2. Restoration Piece (16 Sep 76)"
3. It's All In The Title (23 Sep 76)"
4. Mistaken Identikit (30 Sep 76)"
5. The Car Rally (7 Oct 76)"
6. Holiday Plans (14 Oct 76)"
7. The Protest (21 Oct 76)"
8. The French Student (28 Oct 76)"
9. Lucy's Present (4 Nov 76)"

Series Four (1977)

1. Hello Sailor (8 Sep 77)"
2. Talk of the Devil (15 Sep 77)"
3. You've Got to Have Art (22 Sep 77)
4. A Proper Choice (29 Sep 77)
5. He Who Excavates Is Lost (6 Oct 77)"
6. Never Boring (13 Oct 77)"
7. Never Put It In Writing (20 Oct 77)"

Series Five (1978)

1. Watch Your Weight (5 Sep 78)"
2. The Hut Sut Song (12 Sep 78)"
3. Business and Pleasure (19 Sep 78)"
4. The King and June (26 Sep 78)"
5. A Woman Called Ironside (3 Oct 78)"
6. The More We Are Together (10 Oct 78)"