Rosie is a British

United Kingdom

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 situation-comedy

Situation comedy

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 television series

Television program

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, written by Roy Clarke

Roy Clarke

Roy Clarke OBE is an English comedy writer.-Career:Clarke is best known for creating BBC Sitcoms; Last of the Summer Wine, Open All Hours and Keeping Up Appearances...

 that was broadcast between 1977 and 1981. It was filmed and set in Scarborough in North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire

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. The central character was PC Penrose, the titular "Rosie", a young and inexperienced police officer

Police officer

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, played by Paul Greenwood

Paul Greenwood

Paul Greenwood is a British film, television and theatre actor. He is best known for his role as PC Michael "Rosie" Penrose in the successful sitcom Rosie direct spin-off from the short-lived sitcom The Growing Pains of PC Penrose...

.

For the first series of seven episodes, broadcast in 1975, it was called The Growing Pains of PC Penrose, but it underwent a revamp with a new title, setting and signature tune.

Cast

• Paul Greenwood
  Paul Greenwood
  Paul Greenwood is a British film, television and theatre actor. He is best known for his role as PC Michael "Rosie" Penrose in the successful sitcom Rosie direct spin-off from the short-lived sitcom The Growing Pains of PC Penrose...
  
   as PC 'Rosie' Penrose
• Tony Haygarth
  Tony Haygarth
  Tony Haygarth is an English television, film and theatre actor.-Career:At the age of eighteen, Haygarth worked unsuccessfully as a lifeguard in Torquay, and also tried escapology, equally unsuccessfully...
  
   as PC Wilmot
• Frankie Jordan as Gillian
• Penny Leatherbarrow as WPC Brenda Whatmough
• Paul Luty as Chief Inspector Dunwoody
• Avril Elgar
  Avril Elgar
  Avril Elgar is an English stage, radio and television actress.She trained at the London Old Vic Theatre School...
  
   as Millie Penrose (series 1–3)
• Patricia Neale as Millie Penrose (series 4)
• Lorraine Peters as Aunt Ida
• Allan Surtees as Uncle Norman

Series 1

• "Woman Pressure" (5 January 1977)
• "A Smile from Antonio" (12 January 1977)
• "I Wish They Wouldn't Call Me Son" (19 January 1977)
• "Sunday" (26 January 1977)
• "Wholesale Fish" (2 February 1977)
• "The Cheese and Wine" (9 February 1977)

Series 2

• "Mirror, Mirror on the Floor" (18 May 1978)
• "Wilmot Gets a Bad Case of Big Cyril's Second Wife" (25 May 1978)
• "Wilmot Gets an Even Worse Case of Big Cyril's Second Wife" (1 June 1978)
• "The Eyes of the Law" (8 June 1978)
• "Complications" (15 June 1978)
• "Further Complications" (22 June 1978)
• "Our Intrepid Birdmen" (29 June 1978)

Series 3

• "Those Wonderful People in the C.I.D." (7 June 1979)
• "Free Sample" (14 June 1979)
• "The Worm that Turns Us All" (21 June 1979)
• "Happy Birthday, Mr Chizlehurst" (28 June 1979)
• "Looking for Herbie" (5 July 1979)
• "Turn Left at the Parrot" (12 July 1979)
• "A Day in the Country" (19 July 1979)

Series 4

• "Tune on a Silent Dog Whistle" (18 September 1981)
• "Arresting Gordon by Instalments" (25 September 1981)
• "You're Beautiful, Miss Parkinson" (2 October 1981)
• "The Eight-Foot Goat" (9 October 1981)
• "Big Night at Freezi-Pops" (16 October 1981)
• "An Informer for Engelbert" (23 October 1981)
• "Caught in the Act" (30 October 1981)

DVD release

The complete series (seven episodes) of The Growing Pains of PC Penrose was released on DVD

DVD

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in 2007; However , Rosie has not yet been released.