Rising Damp star Don Warrington has defended the classic sitcom over its use of racial slurs.. The show, which was broadcast between 1974 and 1978, followed a racist landlord and his tenants ...

Classic TV comedy Rising Damp is the latest sitcom to be resurrected on stage, following the likes of Yes, Prime Minister and Steptoe & Son.

Rising Damp is remembered fondly for being a British ITV sitcom by Eric Chappell, which came to an end in 1978. Airing for four years, the series was an adaptation of Chappell's stage play The ...

Code: Damp started as an attempt to create a mythos around Sleigh-Johnson’s different passions.She thought it would be “funny”. Funny is the point here: the hard, guttural, horrific laugh of much of ...

Eric Chappell, the creator of hit TV sitcoms Rising Damp and Home to Roost, has died aged 88. Chappell, who was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, in 1933, had several novels rejected by publishers ...

Writer Eric Chappell, the creator of sitcoms Rising Damp and Home to Roost, has died at the age of 88. The latter show’s star Reece Dinsdale revealed the news, expressing his gratitude for ...

Rising Damp starred Frances de la Tour, Leonard Rossiter and Don Warrington TV classic Rising Damp is the latest sitcom to be resurrected on stage, following the likes of Yes, Prime Minister and ...