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Up Pompeii! - Season 1 & 2 (13 Full Episodes) + Specials. by DaveG. •. Playlist • 16 videos • 363,601 views. Play all.
The Senator and the Asp. Lurcio has to help his mistress get rid of an unwanted lover.
Up Pompeii! is a British television comedy series set in ancient Pompeii and broadcast between 1969 and 1970, starring Frankie Howerd. The first series was written by Talbot Rothwell , a scriptwriter for the Carry On films , and the second series by Rothwell and Sid Colin .
Up Pompeii! (1969) Up Pompeii! TV sitcom. BBC One / ITV1. 1969 - 1991. 16 episodes (2 series) Frankie Howerd starrs as Lurcio, a Roman slave in Pompeii, serving senator Ludicrus Sextus and his family. Also features Max Adrian, Wallas Eaton, Elizabeth Larner, Kerry Gardner, Jeanne Mockford and more. Like this.
The series takes place in Pompeii, before the eruption of Vesuvius of course, and relates the day to day trials and tribulations of our star, the slave Lurcio played by Frankie Howerd. The innuendo's begin at once with the names of the characters in the series.
Apr 5, 2024 · Once the pilot episode of Up Pompeii! was aired under the Comedy Playhouse umbrella, it was clear that the BBC had a hit on their hands. So gratified were they by audience reception and viewing figures that they swiftly commissioned two series at once.
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Up Pompeii. In the vein of and following in the footsteps of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", this bawdy, risque, and hilarious British Comedy is rife with one liners, innuendos, and double entendres, and was the perfect comedy for Britain's mad comedian Frankie Howerd.