Christmas Day 1980 and, after lunch, the family settled down for the Queen's speech followed by an afternoon film. On ITV that day was the big screen adaptation of a beloved British comedy, George And ...

The sitcom ran from 1973 to 1976 and starred Murphy as George Roper, a lazy landlord who allows a man to move into an apartment with two single women. The show was remade in the U.S. as the highly ...