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 (13)
1. The Holiday
Aired 26 September 1966 • 30 min
2. Continental Tour
Aired 3 October 1966 • 30 min
3. The Return
Aired 10 October 1966 • 30 min
4. The Diet
Aired 17 October 1966 • 30 min
5. My Husband's Brother
Aired 24 October 1966 • 30 min
6. Tilly-Ann
Aired 31 October 1966 • 30 min
7. Old Time Dancing
Aired 7 November 1966 • 30 min
8. The Schoolboy
Aired 14 November 1966 • 30 min
9. The Homework
Aired 21 November 1966 • 30 min
10. The Nasty Sleeper
Aired 28 November 1966 • 30 min
11. Bless 'Em All
Aired 5 December 1966 • 30 min
12. This Christmas, Shop Early!
Aired 12 December 1966 • 30 min
13. Christmas Travel
Aired 19 December 1966 • 30 min