In Loving Memory (TV Series) - Trivia

Trivia

• The pilot for the show aired on 4 November 1969 as part of a series of six one-off situation-comedies. The producers, Thames Television elected not to take the series any further. It was almost ten years later when fellow ITV company Yorkshire Television commissioned a series.
• Both Bramham and Luddenden, West Yorkshire was where the location shooting took place.
• The theme music, entitled 'Comedy Close Up No.2' by Herbert Chappell, was supplied by De Wolfe Music film and television music library.
• Syd Little, in one episode, played a doubting neighbour character who once heard a sheep say, "hello".
• That's Your Funeral was a BBC Television sitcom based on a similar premise, but it only lasted for one series.
• Dame Thora Hird and Dick Sharples worked together on another ITV comedy series, Hallelujah!, which was also produced by Yorkshire Television and ran from 1981 to 1984 concurrently with In Loving Memory.
• RIP, a 1992 TV show produced by the Belgian BRT, borrowed many of its early screenplays directly from In Loving Memory.
• Dick Sharples followed In Loving Memory with another sitcom (also produced by Yorkshire Television): Farrington of the F.O.. It starred Angela Thorne and Joan Sims (the latter of whom had appeared in several episodes of In Loving Memory in various roles, including that of a rival undertaker.
• Richard Wilson, famous for his role as Victor Meldrew in the sitcom One Foot in the Grave, appeared in two episodes of the programme as the rival undertaker, Percy Openshaw. This was the same year he began his role as Dr Thorpe in Only When I Laugh.