Two in Clover is a British 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 ran for two series from 1969 to 1970. It starred Sid James

Sid James

Sid James was an English-based South African actor and comedian. He made his name as Tony Hancock's co-star in Hancock's Half Hour and also starred in the popular Carry On films. He was known for his trademark "dirty laugh" and lascivious persona...

 and Victor Spinetti

Victor Spinetti

Victor Spinetti is a Welsh comic actor.-Early life:Spinetti was born in Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Wales of Welsh and Italian heritage from a grandfather who was said to have walked from Italy to Wales to work as a coal miner...

 and was written by Vince Powell

Vince Powell

Vince Powell was a British television writer.Powell was born as Vincent Smith to Roman Catholic parents in Miles Platting, Manchester. When he was five, his mother died; two years later, his father remarried...

 and Harry Driver, and produced and directed by Alan Tarrant. The first series was made in black and white and the second series was made in colour.

It was made by Thames Television

Thames Television

Thames Television was a licensee of the British ITV television network, covering London and parts of the surrounding counties on weekdays from 30 July 1968 until 31 December 1992....

 for the 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...

 network.

Plot

Two city clerks, Sid Turner (James) and Vic Evans (Spinetti), abandon the nine-to-five to run a small farm out in the country. A recurring theme throughout the two series was Sid's love of his Friesian

Holstein (cattle)

Holstein cattle is a breed of cattle known today as the world's highest production dairy animal. Originating in Europe, Holsteins were bred in what is now the Netherlands and more specifically in the two northern provinces of North Holland and Friesland...

 cow "Fanny".

Cast

• Sidney James
  Sid James
  Sid James was an English-based South African actor and comedian. He made his name as Tony Hancock's co-star in Hancock's Half Hour and also starred in the popular Carry On films. He was known for his trademark "dirty laugh" and lascivious persona...
  
   - Sid Turner
• Victor Spinetti
  Victor Spinetti
  Victor Spinetti is a Welsh comic actor.-Early life:Spinetti was born in Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Wales of Welsh and Italian heritage from a grandfather who was said to have walked from Italy to Wales to work as a coal miner...
  
   - Vic Evans
• Gerald Flood
  Gerald Flood
  Gerald Flood was a British actor of stage and television.Born in Portsmouth, Hampshire but lived for most of his life in Farnham, Surrey, where he regularly appeared on stage at the Castle Theatre...
  
   - Gerald Blomley-Jones
• Victor Platt - Landlord
• Bill Pertwee
  Bill Pertwee
  William Desmond Anthony Pertwee MBE is a British comedy actor. He is best known for playing the part of antagonist ARP Warden Hodges in the popular sitcom Dad's Army.-Early and personal life:...
  
   - Policeman
• John Inman
  John Inman
  Frederick John Inman was an English actor best known for his role as Mr. Humphries in Are You Being Served?, a British sitcom in the 1970s and 1980s. Inman was also well known in the United Kingdom as a pantomime dame....
  
   - Bowler
• Fred Trueman
  Fred Trueman
  Frederick Sewards Trueman OBE was an English cricketer, generally acknowledged as one of the greatest fast bowlers in history. A bowler of genuinely fast pace who was widely known as Fiery Fred, Trueman played first-class cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1949 until he retired in 1968...
  
   - Himself

Series One (1969)

• 1.1. Series 1, Episode 1 (February 18, 1969)
• 1.2. Series 1, Episode 2 (February 25, 1969)
• 1.3. Series 1, Episode 3 (March 4, 1969)
• 1.4. Series 1, Episode 4 (March 11, 1969)
• 1.5. Series 1, Episode 5 (March 18, 1969)
• 1.6. Series 1, Episode 6 (March 25, 1969)
• 1.7. Series 1, Episode 7 (April 1, 1969)

Series Two (1970)

• 2.1. Series 2, Episode 1 (February 10, 1970)
• 2.2. Series 2, Episode 2 (February 17, 1970)
• 2.3. Series 2, Episode 3 (February 24, 1970)
• 2.4. Series 2, Episode 4 (March 3, 1970)
• 2.5. Series 2, Episode 5 (March 17, 1970)
• 2.6. Series 2, Episode 6 (March 24, 1970)

Trivia

• John Inman
  John Inman
  Frederick John Inman was an English actor best known for his role as Mr. Humphries in Are You Being Served?, a British sitcom in the 1970s and 1980s. Inman was also well known in the United Kingdom as a pantomime dame....
  
   made his television debut in the final episode alongside Fred Trueman
  Fred Trueman
  Frederick Sewards Trueman OBE was an English cricketer, generally acknowledged as one of the greatest fast bowlers in history. A bowler of genuinely fast pace who was widely known as Fiery Fred, Trueman played first-class cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1949 until he retired in 1968...
  
  .

DVD releases

Both series of Two in Clover have been released on DVD by Network

Network DVD

Network DVD is a DVD publishing company that specialises in classic British television. In particular, it has the rights to a number of well-known ITV programmes...

 in 2004.