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Lurcio learns of a Roman plan to kill all the slaves in Pompeii and decides he is safer in prison. Ludicrus, Ammonia and Nausius all make attempts to free Lurcio but are themselves arrested. Fortunately, Spartacus attacks the jail, defeats the army and sets everyone free.
Lurcio is now a freedman with slaves of his own, but still has more than enough problems in his life. It could have served as a pilot episode for a revival of the series, but Howerd's death prevented that.
Jan 6, 2023 · Up Pompeii! was centred around the home of Lurcio’s master and mistress — the doddery, ineffectual Roman senator Ludicrus Sextus, and his sexually hungry wife, Ammonia (in her younger days known to all as ‘Madeira’ , because she was a piece of cake).
Up Pompeii! Lurcio is a much-put-upon slave in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii. More often than not, Lurcio finds himself keeping his owner's family members apart, in order to keep them together.
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- 1969-09-01
- Comedy, History
- 30
Mar 23, 1970 · Every episode began with Lurcio attempting to declaim The Prologue in the manner of a Greek chorus. He never got very far as he was always interrupted by Senna the soothsayer, predicting doom.
Lurcio is then arrested and ends up being forced to wrestle with Nero's champion, Gorgo (Bresslaw), which Nero and his M.C. (Hudd) find highly amusing until Lurcio manages to win the match and become Nero's new champion.
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Successful 70s BBC comedy series Up Pompeii gets the big screen treatment, its star, camp comedian Frankie Howerd, reprising his role as downtrodden Roman slave Lurcio, who on this occasion becomes unwittingly embroiled in a plot to assassinate Emperor Nero.
