My Husband and I is a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 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...

 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 1987 to 1988. Starring Mollie Sugden

Mollie Sugden

Isobel Mary 'Mollie' Sugden was an English comedy actress best known for portraying the saleswoman Mrs. Slocombe in the British sitcom Are You Being Served? from 1972 to 1985. She later reprised this role in Grace & Favour, which ran from 1992 to 1993...

 and her husband William Moore

William Moore (actor)

William Aaron Moore was an English actor who appeared in many television programmes such as Coronation Street as Cyril Turpin, Betty Turpin's husband from 1969–1974. He also appeared in Emmerdale Farm, and Sorry!...

, it was written by Pam Valentine and Michael Ashton.

Background

Following the end of That's My Boy, the writers Pam Valentine and Michael Ashton wrote a new sitcom for Mollie Sugden. The result was My Husband and I. Like That's My Boy it was made 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...

.

Cast

• Mollie Sugden
  Mollie Sugden
  Isobel Mary 'Mollie' Sugden was an English comedy actress best known for portraying the saleswoman Mrs. Slocombe in the British sitcom Are You Being Served? from 1972 to 1985. She later reprised this role in Grace & Favour, which ran from 1992 to 1993...
  
   - Nora Powers
• William Moore
  William Moore (actor)
  William Aaron Moore was an English actor who appeared in many television programmes such as Coronation Street as Cyril Turpin, Betty Turpin's husband from 1969–1974. He also appeared in Emmerdale Farm, and Sorry!...
  
   - George Powers
• Deddie Davies
  Deddie Davies
  Deddie Davies is a Welsh character actress.She is most familiar to television viewers for comedy roles in a host of series, including The Rag Trade, That's My Boy and Chance in a Million. She usually appears in meek, spinsterish roles...
  
   - Bambi Bamber
• Carol Hawkins
  Carol Hawkins
  Carol Hawkins is an English actress.Carol trained at the Corona Stage School. London stage shows have included, Sextet, Run for Your Wife, See How They Run, Wife Begins at Forty, The Undertaking also including tours such as Time and Time Again, Bedroom Farce, Wait Until Dark, Dirty Linen...
  
   - Tracy Cosgrove
• John Horsley
  John Horsley (actor)
  John L. Horsley is an English actor. He was born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England.He made his acting debut at the Theatre Royal in Bournemouth. His early career saw him playing a succession of doctors and policemen, the former on film in Hell Drivers , the latter on television in Big...
  
   - Mr Munday
• Isabelle Lucas
  Isabelle Lucas
  Isabelle Harriet Lucas was a Canadian-born British actress and singer.Lucas was born in Toronto, Canada, to a chef from Barbados who worked on the Canadian Pacific Railway. Lucas acted in amateur productions as a teenager in Toronto.-Career:Isabelle Lucas moved to London in 1954 after performing...
  
   - Pearl
• Roberta Tovey
  Roberta Tovey
  Roberta Tovey is an English actress and singer who has appeared in many films and television programmes. One of her better-known roles was that of Susan, the granddaughter of Dr. Who in the 1960s films Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD...
  
   - Samantha
• Natasha Gray
  Natasha Gray
  Natasha Gray is a British actress. She has appeared on TV in Emmerdale, The Bill, Never the Twain and The New Statesman. She played the recurring character Anita in the British television situtation comedy My Husband and I ....
  
  - Anita
• Jane Ashton - Henrietta

Plot

Nora Powers is the head of personnel at Ashvale Advertising. However, when Nora's retired husband George joins Ashvale Advertising as chief commissionaire, she soon gets very embarrassed.

Series One (1987)

1. "Wait Till I Get You Home" (9 January 1987)
2. "The Poor Man at his Gate" (16 January 1987)
3. "A Matter of Discipline" (23 January 1987)
4. "Nobody Wants November" (30 January 1987)
5. "First Impressions" (6 February 1987)
6. "A Woman Obsessed" (13 February 1987)
7. "I Got It Free From the Tea Lady" (20 February 1987)

Series Two (1988)

1. "Of Grave Concern" (8 April 1988)
2. "The Office Person" (15 April 1988)
3. "A Star is Born" (22 April 1988)
4. "The Take Over Bid" (29 April 1988)
5. "On the Carpet" (6 May 1988)
6. "Why Not Borrow George?" (13 May 1988)
7. "Food for Thought" (20 May 1988)

DVD releases

A single episode of My Husband and I has been released by Network DVD on a DVD called "Classic ITV Christmas Comedy".