Romany Jones

★ 6.8•1972•4 Seasons•ANIME

Comedy

Romany Jones is a British sitcom created and written by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe for LWT. Broadcast between 1973 and 1975, the programme follows the comic misadventures of two layabout families living on a caravan site. Originally designed as a starring vehicle for James Beck (Dad's Army), the 1972 pilot and 1973 first series centred on Bert and Betty Jones (Jo Rowbottom), newlywed after seven years, who spend their wedding night in their rickety caravan, natural to Bert but distinctly alien to Betty, born and bred in Streatham. Most of the humour focused on life in theirs and a neighbouring caravan housing Lily and Wally Briggs (Queenie Watts and Arthur Mullard, although Arthur English was cast in the pilot). Following Beck's death after completion on the second series, Bert and Betty were written out, and replaced with a city gentleman and his debutante wife, both of whom remain blissfully oblivious to the Briggs' antics.

Top Cast

Queenie Watts

Lily Briggs

Arthur Mullard

Wally Briggs

Jonathan Cecil

Jeremy Crichton-Jones

Gay Soper

Susan Crichton-Jones

Maureen Sweeney

Eileen

Episodes

Season:

1. The More We Are Together

30m

Betty's mother visits the caravan she is now sharing with her workshy husband, Bert

Aired: 6/8/1973

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2. The Ring

30m

It's taken Betty several years of hard courting to get a wedding ring; it's taken her just 7 weeks of marriage to lose it. But the ring must be somewhere in the caravan...