Come Back Mrs. Noah

Come Back Mrs. Noah
Titlescreen of the series, featuring the Britannia Seven spacecraft.
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Jeremy Lloyd David Croft
Written by	Jeremy Lloyd David Croft
Starring	Mollie Sugden Ian Lavender Donald Hewlett Michael Knowles Gorden Kaye
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	6
Production
Producer(s)	David Croft
Running time	30 minutes
Release
Original network	BBC1
Original release	13 December 1977 (1977-12-13) – 14 August 1978 (1978-08-14)

Come Back Mrs. Noah is a British sitcom starring Mollie Sugden that aired on BBC1 from 17 July to 14 August 1978 with a pilot broadcast on 13 December 1977. It was written by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, who had also written Are You Being Served? which also starred Mollie Sugden. Joke banter was recycled from other series, and outrageously strange props were used. Come Back Mrs Noah was not a success, with some regarding it as one of the worst British sitcoms ever made.

In 2050, British housewife Gertrude Noah wins a cookery competition, and the prize is a tour of Britannia Seven, the UK's new Space Exploration Vehicle. In the pilot episode, the craft is accidentally sent blasting off into space with Mrs Noah and a small crew on it. The series then centres on efforts to bring Mrs Noah back to Earth. The news bulletins on Earth, read by Gorden Kaye, revealed countries like the United States and Germany had to turn to Britain, the most successful nation on Earth, for help. After a failed effort to nudge the craft into the Earth's atmosphere, the series concluded with Mrs. Noah, and crew, careering off uncontrollably to the depths of space.

Come Back Mrs Noah was also shown in the Netherlands, starting on 30 June 1979. It was also aired in Australia and on several public television stations in the United States.