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Mann's Best Friends

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Channel 4 Ended Comedy

1 Season · 6 Episodes · Premiered April 15, 1985 · Ended May 20, 1985

Mann's Best Friends was a Channel 4 comedy about the misfit residents of a lodging house, their landlord, and the ex-water board official who moves in to try to bring some order.Henry Mann (Barry Stanton) is the owner of The Laurels, a rundown guest house populated by a motley crew of odd characters.Hamish Ordway (Fulton Mackay), who has recently retired from his job at the water board, moves into The Laurels. He's a pompous, fussy, nosy little man who loves interfering in everyone else's business.Other residents include an alcoholic named Duncan (Bernard Bresslaw) and a blonde "drama tutor" named Dolly Delights (Patricia Burke), who likes to entertain lots of "gentlemen callers" in her room.

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Fulton Mackay
Fulton Mackay as Hamish James Ordway
Barry Stanton
Barry Stanton as Henry Mann
Bernard Bresslaw
Bernard Bresslaw as Duncan
Barbara Hicks
Barbara Hicks as Mrs. Mann
Patricia Brake
Patricia Brake as Dolly Delights
Clive Merrison
Clive Merrison as Irvin
Sara Corper as Phoebe
Liz Smith
Liz Smith as Mrs. Anstruther
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