My Good Friend


My Good Friend is a British television sitcom produced by Hartswood Films in association with Anglia Television for ITV, and it ran for two years between 4 April 1995 and 8 October 1996. It starred George Cole and Richard Pearson as widowed pensioner Peter Banks and retired librarian Harry King. The show ran for two series, each of seven episodes.

Synopsis

Widower and ex-postman Peter Banks lives with his daughter Betty and son-in-law Brian but knows that his presence there is uncomfortable for all three. He strikes up an unlikely friendship with mild mannered retired librarian Harry King, which gives them both a new lease of life. Gradually Peter and Harry realise that they can fill the gaps in each other's lives and Peter moves into the spare room at his landlady Ellie's house.

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