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Beggar My Neighbour is a British sitcom starring Reg Varney, Peter Jones, June Whitfield, Pat Coombs and (later) Desmond Walter-Ellis. Made in black-and-white , it was broadcast from 1966 to 1968 and was written by Ken Hoare and Mike Sharland.
Beggar-my-neighbour, also known as strip jack naked, beat your neighbour out of doors, [1] or beat jack out of doors, [2] or beat your neighbour, [3] is a simple choice-free card game. It is somewhat similar in nature to the children's card game War , and has spawned a more complicated variant, Egyptian ratscrew .
Beggar My Neighbour is an 1802 comedy play by the British author Thomas Morton. It premiered in London at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, then under the management of George Colman, on 10 July 1802. [1] [2] It received a poor reception from audiences. [3]
After that followed another comedy role in Beggar My Neighbour (1966–1968); this also starred Pat Coombs, June Whitfield and Peter Jones. Pat Coombs played the wife of Varney's character. Varney featured in The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1966) with Frankie Howerd, Dora Bryan and George Cole.
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He was sent by his agent, Ann Callender, to be cast in an episode of a sitcom starring Reg Varney entitled Beggar My Neighbour which was being produced by Callender's husband, David Croft. [ 9 ] Perry showed Croft an outline for a sitcom derived from his experiences in the Home Guard, then entitled The Fighting Tigers , which resulted in the ...
Ridley's post-war play, Beggar My Neighbour, was first performed in 1951 [20] and adapted for the Ealing Comedy film Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953). Ridley worked regularly as an actor, including an appearance in the British comedy Crooks in Cloisters (1964).
Despite its equation to the English game of Beggar my Neighbour, it is different because a) it is listed separately by John Mactaggart; [4] b) no pay cards (A K Q J) are mentioned i.e. cards which, when played, require the opponent to play a specified number of further cards which, if all are numerals, are captured by the player of the pay card ...