Season 1 • Episode 5
LatestWhen Dingley calls at Stan's flat he is surprised to hear that his next job is working in Dr Lamb's garden, Lena's psychiatrist...
Bloomers was a short-lived British sitcom starring Richard Beckinsale that was aired in 1979. It was in production in 1979 but only five episodes were made before Beckinsale died suddenly from a heart attack just before a planned rehearsal for the sixth and final episode of the first series. Bloomers was immediately shelved, though the five completed episodes were broadcast later in the same year.
Acting
Beckinsale's final performance — alive, charming, gone too soon.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The sixth episode's script was never filmed; cast and crew learned of Beckinsale's death during rehearsal for it.
Beckinsale was 31 — same age as his daughter Kate when she broke through in Pearl Harbor. The Beckinsale curse of early peaks?
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