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Best of Enemies (TV series)

Best of Enemies is a British comedy television series which first aired on ITV between 6 August 1968 and 16 July 1969.^[1] Rival Conservative and Labour MP's are forced to share an office in the Houses of Parliament. The two characters are inversions of their stereotypes with the Tory a more modest man who rides a bicycle while his Labour counterpart drives an expensive jaguar. Coote had already portrayed an MP in the 1967 series The Whitehall Worrier, with which it shared a gentler humour.^[2]

All episodes are believed to be lost.^{[citation needed]}

Cast[edit]

• Robert Coote as Willie Gordon MP
• Tim Barrett as Geoffrey Broom MP
• Deryck Guyler as Wilkins
• Jay Denyer as Policeman
• Ann Lancaster as Mrs. Ewing
• Geoffrey Palmer as Johnson
• Jill Dixon as Rowena Gordon
• Angela Ryder as Miss Fifi

References[edit]

Bibliography[edit]

• Steven Fielding. A State of Play: British Politics on Screen, Stage and Page, from Anthony Trollope to The Thick of It. A&C Black, 2014.

External links[edit]

• Best of EnemiesatIMDb