All at No 20 | |
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Genre | Sitcom |
Created by | Richard Ommanney |
Starring |
Maureen Lipman Lisa Jacobs Martin Clunes |
Theme music composer | Denis King |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of series | 2 |
No. of episodes | 12 |
Production | |
Producer(s) | Thames Television |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Release | |
Original network | ITV |
Original release | 10 February 1986 – 1 December 1987 |
All at No 20 is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 10 February 1986 to 1 December 1987. Starring Maureen Lipman, it was written by Richard Ommanney, Ian Davidson, Peter Vincent and Alex Shearer. It was made for the ITV network by Thames Television and ran for two series. After the second series was slated by critics, a planned third series was cancelled.
Maureen Lipman played Sheila Haddon, whose husband had died 18 months before the start of the first series. He died without any insurance, so on top of her grief she has to pay off the mortgage of her house (No 20). To do this, rather than ask for help, she decides to take in young lodgers. Monica, her twenty-year-old student daughter, is asked to help. She brings back her fellow art student Carol, a doctor called Henry, as well as Chris, Hamish, Candy and Frankie. Sheila also gets many part-time jobs, while her old friend Richard Beamish proposes marriage to her.
The Complete Series of All at No 20 was released by Network DVD in the UK (Region 2) on 15 June 2015.