Hylda Baker Jimmy Jewel Madge Hindle Edward Malin Joe Gladwin
No. of series
7
No. of episodes
45
Production
Running time
30 mins. (inc. commercials)
Production company
Granada Television
Original release
Network
ITV
Release
15 August 1968 (1968-08-15) – 7 February 1973 (1973-02-07)
Related
Not On Your Nellie
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Nearest and Dearest is a British television sitcom that ran from 1968 to 1973. A total of 45 episodes were made, 18 in monochrome (black & white) and 27 in colour. The series, produced by Granada Television for the ITV network, starred Hylda Baker and Jimmy Jewel as squabbling middle-aged siblings Nellie and Eli Pledge who ran a family pickle business in Colne, Lancashire, in the North West of England.[1][2]
^TV.com. "Nearest and Dearest". TV.com. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
^"Hylda Baker". Prideofmanchester.com. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
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