Book about 1970’s sitcoms George and Mildred & Man About The House by Huddersfield’s Tex - aged just 19!

Jul 10 2010 Huddersfield Daily Examiner

IT was a TV sitcom aired two decades before Tex Fisher was born.

But after watching repeats of Man About the House and its spin-off series George and Mildred, the 18-year-old fell in love with the British comedies.

In fact he loved the shows so much that he has penned a book which hits bookstores in a few days time.

And despite other lads his age being more interested in going out and playing sports, the teenager says he is proud to shout about his passion for the series.

He said: “Some of my friends thought it was a bit strange when I told them I had written a book about a show in the 70s. They thought it sounded like something a person in their 30s would do.

“But I’m pleased that I’ve written something that will help preserve the memory of these much-loved shows and proud to come out of the closet and declare myself a fan!”

Tex, of Elland, says his parents watched the shows when they aired on TV the first time around.

Man About the House was broadcast for six seasons on ITV from 1973 to 1976.

The series, staring Richard O’Sullivan, Paula Wilcox and Sally Thomsett, was considered daring at the time due to its subject matter of a man sharing a flat with two single girls.

The spin-off series, George and Mildred, followed in 1976 and starred Brian Murphy and Yootha Joyce as ill-matched married couple, George and Mildred Roper.

Tex remembers laughing at an episode aired at Christmas when he was just six and his love of both shows grew from there as he watched other repeats and eventually collected all of the episodes on DVD.

He said: “I loved the show when I first saw it and as I grew up I watched episodes as they were repeated on TV.

“It seems strange as I wasn’t born until 20 years after the series finished, but I just really enjoyed them.

“I like the comedy from the era so much more than the style of the shows that are on TV today – it’s so different and far funnier.

“There’s nothing of this type of genre in comedy today, it’s all politically correct stuff and it doesn’t really have new situations as most things have been done in the past.