Having been off the box for a number of years following the failure of his Thames show 'My Name Is Harry Worth', Harry Worth went back into the world of sitcom with 'How's Your Father' ( which was earlier the name of a now forgotten sitcom from 1975 starring Michael Robbins from 'On The Buses' ), a sitcom written by Pam Valentine and Michael Ashton which cast him as walking disaster area Harry Matthews.
Harry's trademark trilby and befuddled expression were all there. There was a fine cast - Giles Watling played his straight talking son Martin whilst his sharp tongued daughter Shirley was played by Debby Cumming. Playing the nosey next door neighbour Vera Blacker was Fanny Carby ( whose favourite saying when announcing her presence was ''It's only little me!'' ).
Sadly all these plus points did very little to lift the show off the ground. The scripts were not particularly strong, neither was the mix of characters, a similar fate that befell Valentine and Ashton's earlier sitcom - the awful 'You're Only Young Twice'. Worth's next - and final - sitcom was 'Oh Happy Band', screened by BBC In 1980. It flopped.
Not an awful show but not an altogether good show either. Nigel Planer, the future Neil of 'The Young Ones', appeared in one episode.
Harry's trademark trilby and befuddled expression were all there. There was a fine cast - Giles Watling played his straight talking son Martin whilst his sharp tongued daughter Shirley was played by Debby Cumming. Playing the nosey next door neighbour Vera Blacker was Fanny Carby ( whose favourite saying when announcing her presence was ''It's only little me!'' ).
Sadly all these plus points did very little to lift the show off the ground. The scripts were not particularly strong, neither was the mix of characters, a similar fate that befell Valentine and Ashton's earlier sitcom - the awful 'You're Only Young Twice'. Worth's next - and final - sitcom was 'Oh Happy Band', screened by BBC In 1980. It flopped.
Not an awful show but not an altogether good show either. Nigel Planer, the future Neil of 'The Young Ones', appeared in one episode.