About this season
Meet the Wife is a 1960s BBC situation comedy written by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe, which featured Freddie Frinton as Freddie Blacklock with Thora Hird as his tyrannical wife, Thora. It ran to five series. The series was based on a 1963 BBC television Comedy Playhouse production, "The Bed". The theme tune was by Russ Conway and incidental music by Norman Percival and later Dennis Wilson. The producers were John Paddy Carstairs and later Robin Nash. The Beatles song "Good Morning, Good Morning" on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band includes the lyric "It's time for tea and Meet the Wife".
Episodes (7)
1. Getting Away
Aired 21 April 1964 • 30 min
2. Coming Home
Aired 28 April 1964 • 30 min
3. The Back
Aired 5 May 1964 • 30 min
4. Night Out
Aired 12 May 1964 • 30 min
5. Little Andrew
Aired 19 May 1964 • 30 min
6. The Business Dinner
Aired 26 May 1964 • 30 min
7. The Strain
Aired 2 June 1964 • 30 min