IT may be hard to imagine today but back in the 1970s one of the biggest stars in television was a former Music Hall star called Hylda Baker, a short northern comic who specialised in Malapropisms.
In Not on Your Nellie, she stars as Nellie Pledge, former pickle factory owner but now living in London with her ailing dad and running his pub, The Brown Cow.
For a teetotaller like Nellie who cannot abide drink, this situation is grimly unbearable; besides which the Brown Cow pub crowd is a bit of a handful! There is the wide boy Charlie, London Underground worker Ali and the gay couple who runs a fashion store, George and Gilbert.
The second and third series of the show are now available on DVD from Network and we have five copies to give away.
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