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===Later 1960s shows=== Chesney and Wolfe repeated their success with the BBC sitcom ''[[Meet the Wife (TV series)|Meet the Wife]]'' (1964β66) starring <!-- Not awarded with a DBE until 1993. -->[[Thora Hird]] and [[Freddie Frinton]]. It was originally a one-off ''[[Comedy Playhouse (series 3)|Comedy Playhouse]]'' pilot called "The Bed" (1963).<ref name="Telegraph2011"/> Again, this featured working class characters and humour. Frinton's character was a plumber, while Hird's had social aspirations. It ran for five series.<ref name="TimesWolfe"/> In 1964, for Australian television, they wrote the first six episodes of a 13 episode comedy series, ''Barley Charlie'', concerning the inheritance by two sisters of a run down garage with one lazy employee.<ref name="Oliver"/> The partnership wrote ''[[The Bed-Sit Girl]]'' (1965β66) for [[Sheila Hancock]], who played a young typist frustrated by her current life.{{sfn|Irwin|2016|p=77}} One of the series' characters, a neighbour (played by [[Derek Nimmo]]) of Hancock's title character, carried over to a follow-up series: ''Sorry I'm Single'' (1967) starred Nimmo as a callow mature student sharing a house with three young women. ''[[Wild, Wild Women]]'' (1969), starring [[Barbara Windsor]] and [[Pat Coombs]]<ref name="Stage2011"/> and set in 1902, was effectively a period-drama variation on ''The Rag Trade'', but only one series was produced.{{sfn|Irwin|2016|p=76}}
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