Freddie Frinton s Dinner For One
When is a British comedy legend not a British comedy legend? The answer, as far as the case of Freddie Frinton is concerned, is when you are British and a comic legend in most places except Britain.
Freddie Frinton is quite an obscure figure these days in the country of his birth. In the 1960s, however, he was one of Britain s most popular comic performers, co-starring with Thora Hird in a sitcom, Meet The Wife, that was such a fixture on television in those days that it became immortalised by John Lennon in one of the tracks -