Sir Yellow was a British TV sitcom aired on ITV

ITV

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 from 15 July - 19 August 1973. It starred Jimmy Edwards

Jimmy Edwards

Jimmy Edwards DFC was an English comedic script writer and comedy actor on both radio and television, best known as Pa Glum in Take It From Here and as the headmaster 'Professor' James Edwards in Whack-O!-Biography:...

 in the title role and also featured Melvyn Hayes

Melvyn Hayes

Melvyn Hayes is an English actor probably best known for playing the effeminate Gunner "Gloria" Beaumont in the 1970s BBC sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum,-Early life and career:...

, Alan Curtis

Alan Curtis (British actor)

-Background:He was born in Coulsdon, Surrey and he has led a long career in the cinema, television and theatre.He has also acted for the MCC as an announcer at Lord's Cricket Ground.Alan now lives in West London.-Cinema appearances:...

, and Michael Ripper

Michael Ripper

Michael Ripper was an English character actor born in Portsmouth.He began his film career in quota quickies in the 1930s and until the late 1950s was virtually unknown; he was seldom credited. He played one of the two murderers in Richard III. Ripper became a mainstay in Hammer Film Productions...

. The show was set in the 13th century and followed the misadventures of a cowardly, womanising, alcoholic knight. The programme was axed after just one series following bad reviews and was never brought back for a second; in 2003 the TV critic Mark Lewisohn

Mark Lewisohn

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 named it "the 20th worst British sitcom of all time" in his book The Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy.

Cast

• Jimmy Edwards
  Jimmy Edwards
  Jimmy Edwards DFC was an English comedic script writer and comedy actor on both radio and television, best known as Pa Glum in Take It From Here and as the headmaster 'Professor' James Edwards in Whack-O!-Biography:...
  
   - Sir Yellow
• Melvyn Hayes
  Melvyn Hayes
  Melvyn Hayes is an English actor probably best known for playing the effeminate Gunner "Gloria" Beaumont in the 1970s BBC sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum,-Early life and career:...
  
   - Gregory
• Michael Ripper
  Michael Ripper
  Michael Ripper was an English character actor born in Portsmouth.He began his film career in quota quickies in the 1930s and until the late 1950s was virtually unknown; he was seldom credited. He played one of the two murderers in Richard III. Ripper became a mainstay in Hammer Film Productions...
  
   - Cedric
• Alan Curtis
  Alan Curtis (British actor)
  -Background:He was born in Coulsdon, Surrey and he has led a long career in the cinema, television and theatre.He has also acted for the MCC as an announcer at Lord's Cricket Ground.Alan now lives in West London.-Cinema appearances:...
  
  - Sir Griswold

Episodes

• A Knight To Remember - 15 July 1973
• Getting Ye Treatment - 22 July 1973
• Ye Turn Of Ye Worm - 29 July 1973
• Love All - 5 August 1973
• I'll Tag Along With Thee - 12 August 1973
• That's Ye Spirit - 19 August 1973