No Place Like Home (TV series)


No Place Like Home was a BBC situation comedy series, written by Jon Watkins and starred William Gaunt and Patricia Garwood as Arthur and Beryl Crabtree, a middle-aged couple who plan for a quiet life once their children have left home. Sadly, it is not to be.
No Place Like Home was broadcast for five series between 1983 and 1987. It featured the first regular role on television for Martin Clunes, who had made his television debut earlier in 1983 on Doctor Who.

Plot

Arthur and Beryl Crabtree had raised four children and looked forward to the day when their time once again would be their own; a second honeymoon was planned as the last of their offspring finally left home. However, their hopes were soon dashed as one by one the fledglings returned to the nest disillusioned with life in the outside world. For the children there was no place like home.
The eldest of the children was Lorraine who had married traffic warden Raymond Codd but cast him aside in the final series. Raymond is replaced by a similar character, Roger Duff, in Lorraine's affections. There was also Nigel, a medical student, Paul and Tracey, while the Crabtrees' domestic bliss was also disturbed by their nosey neighbours the Bottings, particularly the shrieking, animal-loving Vera.
Arthur, and Vera's husband Trevor, often escaped to the greenhouse when things became unbearable, seeking solace in a glass of cheap, Albanian sherry.

Cast

DVD releases

The first two series of No Place Like Home were released in 2006; the last three series have yet to be released.