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Esmonde and Larbey were a British television screenwriting duo, consisting of John Gilbert Esmonde (21 March 1937 – 10 August 2008) and Robert Edward Larbey (24 June 1934 – 31 March 2014), who created popular sitcoms starting from the mid-1960s until the mid-1990s such as Please Sir!, The Good Life, Get Some In!, Ever Decreasing Circles ...
- 1965–2005 (as collaboration)
- Screenwriter
Esmonde and Larbey were a British television screenwriting duo, consisting of John Gilbert Esmonde and Robert Edward Larbey , who created popular sitcoms starting from the mid-1960s until the mid-1990s such as Please Sir!, The Good Life, Get Some In!, Ever Decreasing Circles, and Brush Strokes.
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John Esmonde and Bob Larbey have unquestionably been responsible for some of British comedy's best loved programmes. From the comfort of suburbia in The Good Life to the darker world of Mulberry, the writers have given us some of the most memorable characters on television.
Mar 6, 2020 · Esmonde, who died in 2008, aged 71, and Larbey, in 2014, aged 79, were experienced enough to take it on the chin when one of their efforts bombed.
Apr 7, 2014 · The co-creator of some of Britain's best-loved sitcoms, often alongside writing partner John Esmonde, Larbey helped keep the nation laughing for well over 30 years. We talked to Bob a couple of years ago about The Good Life - their best-known sitcom hit.
The 1970s BBC sitcom was created by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, friends since their Clapham schooldays, who had already created one comedy classic, ITV’s Please Sir!. That starred John Alderton as an idealistic English teacher at a tough secondary school.
Apr 14, 1990 · Bob described working with co-writer John Esmonde, how and where, on Please Sir!, Get Some In!, The Good Life, Ever Decreasing Circles, and Brush Strokes and why he wrote A Fine Romance alone. He talks of lengths of runs and ‘natural lifespans’ of series; a Goodlife special for the Queen and what inspires and kicks off ideas.
