Take a Letter, Mr. Jones | |
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Created by | Chesney and Wolfe |
Starring |
John Inman Rula Lenska Miriam Margolyes Gina Maher Joan Blackham Christine Ozanne Claudine Bowyer Allan Mitchell |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of episodes | 6 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Release | |
Original network | ITV |
Original release | 5 September – 10 October 1981 |
Take a Letter, Mr. Jones is a short-lived British sitcom starring John Inman and Rula Lenska that aired for six episodes on ITV from 5 September to 10 October 1981. It was created by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe.
Take a Letter, Mr. Jones is a role-reversal comedy wherein Graham Jones (John Inman) works as a personal secretary to female executive Joan Warner (Rula Lenska), within a London-based multinational corporation called 8-Star. Although he ably assists her in their busy office, Graham often helps Joan with her equally hectic domestic arrangements as she is a single mother to seven-year-old daughter, Lucy. Miriam Margolyes plays Joan's excitable Italian housekeeper, Maria.
John Inman starred in Take a Letter, Mr. Jones between seasons of the BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? Take a Letter, Mr. Jones was never a ratings success (only running for six episodes), but in recent years it has been resurrected by many American PBS stations, where Are You Being Served? is also a hit. A UK repeat of the series was shown on Film24 in 2010.
In 2015 UK channel Talking Pictures TV reshowed the series.
A US VHS set of the series was released by Questar in 1995. A UK DVD of the series was released in 2009 by Simply Home Entertainment.