Close to Home (found ITV sitcom; 1989-1990)
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Status: Found
Date found: 2020 Sept. (Forces TV Airings) / 30 Aug 2021 (CloseToHomeTV uploads all the episodes online.)
Found by: Max Stenner/Vvmax / CloseToHomeTV
Close to Home was a 1989-1990 British sitcom starring Paul Nicholas (Just Good Friends), Angharad Rees (Poldark), Lucy Benjamin (EastEnders) and Andrew Read (Jupiter Moon). Each episode featured James Shepherd's attempts to juggle life as the single father of two teenagers and a busy veterinarian. His attempts to find happiness with a new partner were frequently sabotaged by his ex-wife. It was written by Brian Cooke, best known as the creator of Three’s Company (which was an American version of his sitcom Man About the House).[1] It was produced for London Weekend Television and ran for 2 series from 1989 to 1990.[2]
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In 2013, a short trailer for the show that was aired in 1989 was uploaded to YouTube by Benriggers.[3] Half of the first series and episode 1 of the second series were uploaded to Dailymotion in the following years.
The complete series began re-airing on Forces TV in the UK in 2020. LMW User Max Stenner/Vvmax managed to obtain the episodes in master-tape quality from their Forces TV airings, but he hasn’t posted them albeit due to copyright and hardware reasons.
A year later, on August 27th, 2021, the YouTube Channel CloseToHomeTV was created that primarily focused on uploading all 19 episodes from both seasons of the series. Three days later, on August 30, 2021, all the episodes is now available to be watched on YouTube. [4]
External Link
- IMDb page of Close to Home. Retrieved 12 Oct '20