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A spin-off from Coronation Street, this sitcom follows the mixed fortunes of former Weatherfield boutique owner Leonard Swindley (Arthur Lowe). In his new position as assistant manager at a Dobson and Hawks chain store, the punctilious but ambitious Mr. Swindley seizes upon every opportunity to scale the social heights arranging everything from intimate dinner parties to glittering charity galas and swinging teenage boutiques. Featuring scripts from an award-winning team that included Coronation Street contributors Harry Driver and Vince Powell, as well as noted playwright Jack Rosenthal, Pardon the Expression helped to define the type of comic role for which BAFTA winner Arthur Lowe would be most fondly remembered: that of the pompous, quietly floundering buffoon. (Network)
(more)Cast
William Moore
UK
Best series:
All Creatures Great and Small (1978) (series)
Tales of the Unexpected (1979) (series)
The Professionals (1977) (series)
Betty Driver
UK
Best series:
Coronation Street (1960) (series) - actor, a.f.
Dilys Watling
UK
Best series:
The Benny Hill Show (1969) (series)
The Bill (1984) (series)
Coronation Street (1960) (series)
Tony Melody
UK
Best series:
All Creatures Great and Small (1978) (series)
Dalziel and Pascoe (1996) (series)
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Willoughby Goddard
UK
Best series:
Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979) (series)
Blackadder (1983) (series)
John Silver's Return to Treasure Island (1986) (series)
Paul Whitsun-Jones
UK
Best series:
The Persuaders! (1971) (series)
The Saint (1962) (series)
Doctor Who (1963) (series)
Christine Hargreaves
UK
Best series:
Rush (2008) (series)
Coronation Street (1960) (series)
Yvonne Antrobus
UK
Best series:
The Bill (1984) (series)
Avis Bunnage
UK
Best series:
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978) (series)
Inspector Morse (1987) (series)
Coronation Street (1960) (series)
Carmel Cryan
UK
Gretchen Franklin
UK
Best series:
Blackadder (1983) (series)
Keeping Up Appearances (1990) (series)
The Sweeney (1975) (series)
Aimée Delamain
UK
Best series:
A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1987) (series)
'Allo 'Allo! (1982) (series)
The Saint (1962) (series)
Reginald Marsh
UK
Best series:
The Persuaders! (1971) (series)
The Saint (1962) (series)
Only When I Laugh (1979) (series)
Ivor Dean
UK
Best series:
The Persuaders! (1971) (series)
Treasure Island (1966) (series)
The Saint (1962) (series)
Raymond Young
UK
Best series:
Jeeves and Wooster (1990) (series)
The Persuaders! (1971) (series)
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969) (series)
John Cater
UK
Best series:
I, Claudius (1976) (series)
Jeeves and Wooster (1990) (series)
John Silver's Return to Treasure Island (1986) (series)
Betty Hardy
UK
Best series:
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979) (series)
Tales of the Unexpected (1979) (series)
Coronation Street (1960) (series)
Fanny Carby
UK
Best series:
Middlemarch (1994) (series)
William Tell (1987) (series)
The Sweeney (1975) (series)
Fredric Abbott
Australia
Best series:
The Prisoner (1967) (series)
The Saint (1962) (series)
The Professionals (1977) (series)
Michael Robbins
UK
Best series:
The Saint (1962) (series)
Sherlock Holmes (1964) (series)
The Avengers (1961) (series)