Take a Letter, Mr. Jones

Take a Letter, Mr. Jones
Created by	Chesney and Wolfe
Starring	John Inman Rula Lenska Miriam Margolyes Gina Maher Joan Blackham Christine Ozanne Claudine Bowyer Allan Mitchell
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	6 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Release
Original network	ITV
Original release	5 September – 10 October 1981

Take a Letter, Mr. Jones is a short-lived British sitcom starring John Inman and Rula Lenska that aired for six episodes on ITV from 5 September to 10 October 1981. It was created by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe.

Take a Letter, Mr. Jones is a role-reversal comedy wherein Graham Jones (John Inman) works as a personal secretary to female executive Joan Warner (Rula Lenska), within a London-based multinational corporation called 8-Star. Although he ably assists her in their busy office, Graham often helps Joan with her equally hectic domestic arrangements as she is a single mother to seven-year-old daughter, Lucy. Miriam Margolyes plays Joan's excitable Italian housekeeper, Maria.

John Inman starred in Take a Letter, Mr. Jones between seasons of the BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? Take a Letter, Mr. Jones was never a ratings success (only running for six episodes), but in recent years it has been resurrected by many American PBS stations, where Are You Being Served? is also a hit. A UK repeat of the series was shown on Film24 in 2010.

In 2015 UK channel Talking Pictures TV reshowed the series.

A US VHS set of the series was released by Questar in 1995. A UK DVD of the series was released in 2009 by Simply Home Entertainment.

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