Rising Damp

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(comedy)
First broadcast in 1974, the ITV bedsitland sitcom Rising Damp was an instant and enduring success. It starred Leonard Rossiter as the miserly and lovelorn landlord Rigsby who is constantly needling young lodger Alan (Richard Beckinsale), a science student whose long hair and earrings are symptomatic to Rigsby of the parlous effeminacy of the modern age. He's also in love with Frances De La Tour's dowdy spinster Miss Jones, though his tentative advances are forever rebuffed. She in turn carries a torch for Philip (Don Warrington), the elegant son of an African chief who also resides at Rigsby Towers.

Some aspects of Rising Damp have not aged well, principally Rigsby's stream of racist jibes at Philip. Although these were doubtless well-meant and supposed to illustrate Rigsby's foolish bigotry, you suspect that that was a convenient cover for audiences in the 1970s to enjoy racist humour. However, Rossiter's Rigsby—stuttering, stammering, bent perpetually over backwards—remains a great comic creation, embodying all the festering prejudices, small-mindedness and self-delusion of the lower middle class Little Englander.

actors:

Leonard Rossiter	as Rigsby
Frances de la Tour	as Miss Jones
Denholm Elliott	as Seymour
Don Warrington	as Philip
Christopher Strauli	as John
Carrie Jones	as Sandra
Glynn Edwards	as Cooper
John Cater	as Bert
Derek Griffiths	as Alec
Ronnie Brody	as Waiter
Alan Clare	as Accordionist
Jonathan Cecil	as Assistant
Bill Dean	as Workman
Pat Roach	as Rugby player

directors:
Joseph McGrath
rating:6.00

See also: Comedy: Southland Tales

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