His Lordship Entertains

infobox television
show_name = His Lordship Entertains
caption = The cast of 'His Lordship Entertains'


format = Comedy
runtime = 30 minutes
country = United Kingdom
starring = Ronnie Barker
Josephine Tewson
David Jason
Mary Baxter
Moira Foot
Frank Gatliff
country = United Kingdom
network = BBC2
first_aired = 5 Jun, 1972
last_aired = 17 Jul, 1972
num_episodes = 7
imdb_id = 0068078|

His Lordship Entertains was Ronnie Barker's second sitcom vehicle for his Lord Rustless character, first seen three years earlier in Hark at Barker on ITV. This time though, Rustless had switched channels and was now appearing on BBC2.

Set again in the aristocratic Chrome Hall, which had now become a hotel. It again also starred David Jason as the 100 year old Dithers and Josephine Tewson as Mildred Bates. Two actors who would go on to have a long working relationship with Barker.

Barker wrote all the scripts under the pseudonym Jonathan Cobbald. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/h/hislordshipenter_66600370.shtml] . He liked to refer to the show as "Fawlty Towers mark one" as it appeared on television three years before that other hotel bound sitcom.

Archive status

No episodes of "His Lordship Entertains" remain in the archives, though its scripts were later published in Ronnie Barker's anthology "All I Ever Wrote". [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068078/literature] [http://www.pegnsean.net/~occupant/media.htm]

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/h/hislordshipenter_66600370.shtml "His Lordship Entertains"] at the bbc.co.uk Guide to Comedy
* [http://www.lostshows.com/default.aspx?programme=0671bc6b-0ebf-4775-bd73-7a2a5d3e6f50 "His Lordship Entertains"] at Lost Shows
*imdb title|id=0068078|title=His Lordship Entertains