Brian Murphy and Yootha Joyce in London, 1976 Credit: PA George and Mildred would never have worked a fraction as well as it did, had it not been for the interplay between Murphy and Joyce.

Any boy who grew up in the Seventies will recall with a shudder watching Yootha Joyce's predatory Mildred Roper in the saucy sitcom Man About The House. The terrifying teeth, the bright orange ...

Brian Murphy as George with Yootha Joyce as Mildred: ‘The producers of Man About the House didn’t realise we already knew each other, and they were taken aback by the chemistry between us when ...