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After Henry

  • TV Series
  • 1988–1992
  • 30m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
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After Henry (1988)
SitcomComedy

Sarah, a widow, lives with her daughter Clare and mother Eleanor. After Henry's passing, these three generations of women navigate their volatile household dynamics.Sarah, a widow, lives with her daughter Clare and mother Eleanor. After Henry's passing, these three generations of women navigate their volatile household dynamics.Sarah, a widow, lives with her daughter Clare and mother Eleanor. After Henry's passing, these three generations of women navigate their volatile household dynamics.

  • Stars
    • Prunella Scales
    • Janine Wood
    • Jonathan Newth
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    6.9/10
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    • Stars
      • Prunella Scales
      • Janine Wood
      • Jonathan Newth
    • 10User reviews
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  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 2 BAFTA Awards
      • 2 nominations total

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    Prunella Scales
    Prunella Scales
    • Sarah France
    • 1988–1992
    Janine Wood
    • Clare France
    • 1988–1992
    Jonathan Newth
    Jonathan Newth
    • Russell Bryant
    • 1988–1992
    Joan Sanderson
    Joan Sanderson
    • Eleanor Prescott
    • 1988–1992
    Peggy Ann Wood
    • Vera Polling
    • 1988–1992
    Edward de Souza
    Edward de Souza
    • Sam Greenland
    • 1989–1990
    Fanny Rowe
    Fanny Rowe
    • Vera Polling
    • 1988
    Anne Priestley
    • Mary…
    • 1988–1989
    Charles Morgan
    Charles Morgan
    • Vicar…
    • 1988–1989
    Bernard Holley
    Bernard Holley
    • Detective Inspector Carson…
    • 1988–1989
    Phyllis Calvert
    Phyllis Calvert
    • Auntie Lilian
    • 1990
    Bridget Brammall
    • Katie
    • 1990
    Paul Brooke
    Paul Brooke
    • Paul
    • 1988
    Peter Blake
    Peter Blake
    • Nick
    • 1988
    Barry Killerby
    • Delivery Boy
    • 1988
    Michael Melia
    Michael Melia
    • The Barman
    • 1988
    Robert Austin
    Robert Austin
    • Tom
    • 1988
    Dennis Ramsden
    • Aubrey
    • 1988
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    10Janet1612

    A very funny and gentle comedy series

    This is a great series. There's also a radio series with the same cast - except the bookshop owner.

    A funny and gentle series with the fantastic Prunella Scales (who I first thought overacted dreadfully, but she soon calmed down). There is no bad language, no annoying background music (which is usually blasting out over the dialogue nowadays). All in all great fun and great fashion of the 1980s. It also has a serious gay character which is highly unusual for the time - not a stereotypical gay character either. The series is currently being replayed on TV and what a welcome change. UK 'comedies' today start with foul language from the off nowadays.
    8evans-15475

    Predictable but amusing

    After the first few sentences of each episode you can see how it's going to unfold,more amusing than laugh out loud funny and I doubt you will remember any highlights but as in the 70s and 80s women in British comedies were little more than eye candy this must have been a major departure with 3 leading ladies.
    supahz

    Passable, But Not Exceptional

    The Bottom Line - 2.5 out of 5

    "After Henry" is a mid-grade Britcom. Britcom fans such as myself will enjoy seeing Prunella Scales (Mrs Fawlty from "Fawlty Towers"), as she is a fine actress and does admirably here. However, the show isn't memorably funny, the premise of multi-generational households is a well-tilled one and there's little new here, and the remaining cast is mediocre. The general impression left on the viewer after several episodes is that it's a rather run-of-the-mill program.

    As an American who loves Britcoms, I try to watch and rent all that I can find on telly and in vid shops. I don't have the luxury of comparing "After Henry" to the regular programming that British viewers see each night. My comments on the show are in relation to the shows I have seen. The best shows would include "One Foot in the Grave", "Blackadder", "Fawlty Towers" and "Red Dwarf". "After Henry" is clearly not in that lofty class, but is passable. You could certainly find yourself watching worse... and better.
    duchowy

    One of Britians Best

    I enjoyed this show very much and only wish it would be running again. Very humorous with a good mix of characters. The lives of a grandmother, mother and daughter all living in a 3 storey flat. One of the Britian's BEST comedies ever made.
    ffranc

    Better in its original form as a BBC radio series.

    Television chiefs in Britain, desperate for new comedy ideas, seize on any successful radio series. When it first appeared, the idea of three generations of women under the same roof, and the sympathetic depiction of a gay man not in the first flush of youth were quite fresh. "After Henry" lost something in the transfer to TV, possibly because on TV it made fewer demands on the imagination. The cast, principally Joan Sanderson (qv) as Prunella Scales's mother and Benjamin Whitrow (qv) as the bookshop owner, were fresher, too.

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    • Trivia
      Originally a radio series on BBC Radio 4, running between April 1985 and March 1989; scripts from this parent series were adapted for TV. Both series occasionally broadcast episodes on the same nights.
    • Connections
      Version of Zonder ernst (1992)
    • Soundtracks
      Three Quarter Blues
      Composed by George Gershwin

      Arranged and Conducted by Ray Cook

      [series theme tune]

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    • Release date
      • January 4, 1988 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Después de Henry
    • Production company
      • Thames Television
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    • Runtime
      30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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