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Up Pompeii!

Name: Up Pompeii!
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Frankie Howerd, Elizabeth Larner, Kerry Gardner, Jeanne Mockford, Anita Richardson

1969–1970 · 2 seasons, 14 episodes · 30m episodes · Comedy · ITV1 · United Kingdom

Up Pompeii! is a British television comedy series broadcast between 1969 and 1970, starring Frankie Howerd. The first series was written by Talbot Rothwell, a scriptwriter for the Carry On films, and the second series by Rothwell and Sid Colin. Two further specials were transmitted in 1975 and 1991. In ancient Pompeii, much-put-upon slave Lurcio navigates the chaotic lives of his owner's family

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Talbot Rothwell

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Frankie Howerd, Elizabeth Larner, Kerry Gardner, Jeanne Mockford, Anita Richardson, Max Adrian

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