Like Archie Bunker in the U.S., Rupert Rigsby is the British comedy character the whole country loved to loather. Comic genius Leonard Rossiter (The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin) plays the odious Rigsby, whose ludicrous pretensions and bigotry are played off against the hijinks of his more enlightened but cash-strapped tenants: long-haired medical student Alan (Richard Beckinsale), love starved administrator Ruth (Frances de la Tour), and urbane African prince Philip (Don Warrington). The BAFTA Award-winning series, a critical and popular success during its four seasons on the U.K.'s ITV network in the 1970s, remains a winner. It was the highest-rated ITV sitcom in a 2004 poll to name Britain's top 100 sitcoms of all time.
Episodes:
· The Lodgers
· Black Magic
· A Night Out
· Cahrisma
· All Our Yesterdays
· The Prowler
· Sand Up and Be Counted