Rosie — Season 1, Episode 1: Woman Pressure
30 min • 5 seasons, 35 episodes • ★ 6.7/10
Episode synopsis
PC Michael Penrose, nicknamed to his embarrassment Rosie, returns to his native town, the resort of Ravensbay, when he learns that his exotic, pretentious mother Millie is dying. In fact it is a ruse to get him home where Millie and her sister Ida dominate Rosie and hen-pecked uncle Norman. Further woman pressure comes from girlfriend Gillian, anxious to get him to the altar. After a pointless visit from short-sighted informant Merv, Rosie goes to work and, along with slovenly colleague PC Wilmot, is called to a pub disturbance. Here they finally subdue an aggressive drunk after learning that he too is under woman pressure.
About Rosie
Rosie is a British situation-comedy television series, written by Roy Clarke that was broadcast between 1977 and 1981. It was filmed and set in Scarborough in North Yorkshire. The central character was PC Penrose, the titular "Rosie", a young and inexperienced police officer, played by Paul Greenwood. For the first series of seven episodes, broadcast in 1975, it was called The Growing Pains of PC Penrose, but it underwent a revamp with a new title, setting and signature tune.