That's Your Funeral
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| That's Your Funeral | |
| Format | Comedy |
| Run time | 30 minutes per episode |
| Creator(s) | Peter Lewis |
| Starring | Bill Fraser Raymond Huntley David Battley and David King |
| Channel | BBC One |
| Production company | BBC |
| Airdates | (pilot) March 25, 1970 – February 26, 1971 |
| No. of episodes | 6 x 30 mins, 1 x 30 min pilot. |
That's Your Funeral was a BBC sitcom from 1971.
The show was about a North of England funeral director called Basil Bulstrode (Bill Fraser). It used numerous urban legends about the funeral industry in its storylines. The show only lasted for one series before being axed.
A very similar theme was used far more successfully in the ITV sitcom In Loving Memory.
[edit] Film
In 1972 such was the dire state of the British film industry that this sitcom was made into a film version. The plot centres around a rival undertakers firm being used as a front for drug smuggling. Directed by John Robins, as well as the usual cast it featured numerous well known actors such as Frank Thornton, Dennis Price and Roy Kinnear. Unsurprisingly it did badly at the box office.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- That's Your Funeral at the Internet Movie Database (TV series)
- That's Your Funeral at the Internet Movie Database (film)
