Hark at Barker (1969)
Hark at Barker (1969)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This TV Show Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Ronnie Barker
Lord Rustless
Frank Gatliff
Badger - the butler / Badger
Josephine Tewson
Mildred Bates / Miss Bates
Mary Baxter
Cook
Alun Owen
Writer
David Jason
Dithers / Dithers - the gardener / Foghorn
Moira Foot
Effie - the maid / Effie
Jan Rossini
Exercise girl / Girl Patient / Heroine
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Hark at Barker is a 1969 British comedy series combining elements of sitcom and sketch show, which starred Ronnie Barker. It was made for the ITV network by London Weekend Television.
Each show began with a spoof news item read by Barker as the announcer. He would then introduce the main part of the programme, a lecture to be given by Lord Rustless (also Barker) on a different topic each week from his stately home, Chrome Hall. Helped and hindered by Rustless' secretary (Mildred) Bates, his Butler Badger, his bad-tempered Cook, his incoherent gardener Dithers and (in Series 2) his buxom, near-mute maid Effie, these lectures invariably degenerated into farce, and were frequently interrupted by comic sketches on location or in the studio which also starred Barker in differing roles.
Barker reprised the role of Lord Rustless in the BBC series His Lordship Entertains, and played very similar characters in Futtock's End and the Two Ronnies specials The Picnic and By the Sea.