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The Glums. The Glums is a British television sitcom which first aired on ITV in 1979. It had its origins in a segment of the 1950s radio show Take It from Here. [1] The characters were revived as part of Bruce Forsyth's Big Night variety show in 1978, and the following year were given a spin-off which lasted for one series of eight episodes.
- John Kaye Cooper, John Reardon
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- Sitcom
- 11 November –, 30 December 1979
Jul 2, 2011 · The Glums were a dysfunctional family created by Frank Muir and Denis Norden for the BBC radio show Take It From Here in 1953. They featured Jimmy Edwards as Mr. Glum, a chauvinist pig, Dick Bentley as his dim son Ron, and June Whitfield as Eth, Ron's long-term fiancée.
The Glums is a remake of a radio show that was part of Take it from Here, starring Jimmy Edwards as the beer swilling father and Ian Lavender as his son Ron. The series follows the humorous misadventures of the Glums and their neighbours in a London flat.
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- 1978-10-07
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First appearing on TIFH on 12 November 1953, the popularity of this sketch made Muir and Norden realise that they were on to something. They made one or two modifications to the characters, and The Glums became a regular part of Take It from Here. The premise of The Glums was the long engagement between Ron Glum and his long-term fiancée Eth ...
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The Glums began as part of the 1950s radio show 'Take It from Here'. The characters were revived in 1978 as part of the 'Bruce Forsyth's Big Night' variety show, and a complete independant series was transmitted in the following year.
The Glums first appeared in a regular series of sketches during the 1950s in the BBC radio programme, Take It From Here. In the radio version, Pa Glum (Jimmy Edwards) was a bad-tempered old boozer with a tendency to "rant and rave" at his gormless son, Ron (Dick Bentley). The other regular character was Ron's fiancee, Eth (June Whitfield).
