Vince Powell
Director
Love Thy Neighbour (1972)
Specials
The Pilot (S0-E01) or S01-E00) "When a Black couple moves in next door, Eddie decides that he and his wife Joan must move. He changes his mind when he sees the woman, but trouble is still afoot." The unaired pilot episode featured Jack Smethurst (Eddie), Rudolph Walker (Bill), and Nina Baden-Semper (Barbie) with Gwendolyn Watts as Joan Booth (instead of Kate Williams as in the series and film). The pilot episode script was modified slightly for the first episode of the series, which was titled "New Neighbours".
Released April 13, 1972
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Comedy
Keywords: tmdb.friendship, tmdb.married-couple, tmdb.sitcom, imdb.racial-tension, imdb.factory-worker, imdb.london-england, imdb.working-class + 25 more, imdb.next-door-neighbor, imdb.neighbor-neighbor-relationship, imdb.sitcom, imdb.british-comedy, imdb.pub, imdb.xenophobia, imdb.blue-collar-worker, imdb.discrimination, imdb.toleration, imdb.ignorance, imdb.title-based-on-the-bible, imdb.immigrant, imdb.black-british, imdb.interracial-relationship, imdb.husband-wife-relationship, imdb.racial-issues, imdb.racism, imdb.racial-slur, imdb.laugh-track, mdblist.has-trailer, tmdb.english, tmdb.sambo, tmdb.honky, tmdb.mild-racism, tmdb.1970s
Production Companies: Thames Television, ITV
Network: ITV1
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S0E1 - The Pilot
The unaired pilot episode featured Jack Smethurst (Eddie), Rudolph Walker (Bill) and Nina Baden-Semper (Barbie) with Gwendolyn Watts as Joan Booth (instead of Kate Williams as in the series and film). The pilot episode script was modified slightly for the first episode of the series, which was titled "New Neighbours".
S0E2 - Love Thy Neighbour (Film)
Eddie and Joan Booth, a white couple, live next door to Bill and Barbie Reynolds, who are black. Although Joan and Barbie are best friends, Bill and Eddie are complete opposites. Without their husbands' knowledge, Joan and Barbie enter a "Love Thy Neighbour" competition to win a cruise, but must contend with the problem of their antagonistic husbands. To add to the problems, Joan's mother-in-law is coming to stay, and Barbie's father-in-law is coming from Trinidad.
July 4, 1973, midnight
S0E3 - All Star Comedy Carnival [1972]
All Star Comedy Carnival was an annual Christmas special produced by ITV, containing new mini-episodes of popular British sitcoms and light entertainment programmes with some musical interludes. Broadcast annually on Christmas Day from 1969 to 1973, Love Thy Neighbour featured in 1972. Hosted by Jimmy Tarbuck.
Dec. 25, 1972, midnight
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ITV1
30 min/ep
1680 min
April 13, 1972
Jan. 22, 1976, midnight
Ended
NR
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