One of the classic British sitcoms mostly lost to the BBC's practice of wiping recordings to reuse tape stock, the BBC's HUGH & I has its share of laughs but is less interesting as a compendium of stock sitcom situations than the comic half of a composite portrait of London suburban life formed in conjunction with its soap opera contemporary CORONATION STREET running on ITV. Set primarily at 33 Lobelia Avenue in Tooting where live widow Aida Scott (Vi Stevens, I SEE A DARK STRANGER), her unemployed, snobbish, high-strung son Terry (Terry Scott, BLESS THIS HOUSE), and slow-witted lodger Hugh (Hugh Lloyd, QUADROPHENIA). Senile neighbors on the one side Griselda Wormald (Patricia Hayes, SUPER BITCH) and her deaf brother-in-law Cecil Wormald (Jack Haig, 'ALLO 'ALLO) - replacing her husband Arthur (Cyril Smith, I BECAME A CRIMINAL) after the first series - constantly dropping in to watch television, and the Crispins - argumentative father Arthur (Wallas Eaton, THIS SPORTING LIFE), snobbish mother Ethel (Mollie Sugden, THE LIVER BIRDS), and sexpot daughter Norma (Jill Curzon, DR. SYN, ALIAS THE SCARECROW) - putting on airs and flaunting status symbols while breeding whippets in the kitchen. Common scenarios include get-rich-quick schemes that prove costly ("Fully Incomprehensible"), disastrous home repairs to save money ("A Sink of Iniquity"), attempts to elevate their station by finding ways to mingle with high society ("Brace of Peasants", "Putting on the Ritz", and "The 19th Hole"), attempting to one-up the Crispins ("Love Thy Neighbor"), outings and holiday upgrades gone wrong ("April in Paris" and "A Place in the Sun"), and chaos brought about by Terry's well-intentioned but arrogant attempts to elevate others ("Here Comes the Bride" and "Prison Visitor") or events ("A Fete Worse Than Death"). Scott and Sugden are both prone to malapropisms and are often the "butt" of jokes about their appearances, while double entendres and misunderstandings stemming from them are usually related to Curzon's shapely figure and Terry's and the Crispins' misperception that the timidly infatuated Hugh is a sex maniac. Guest stars include Sugden's later ARE YOU BEING SERVED co-star Frank Thornton (THE LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE), future Miss Marple Joan Hickson (THE WICKED LADY), TO THE MANOR BORN's Anthony Sharp, and a recurring Fred Emney (THE ITALIAN JOB) as inebriated aristocrat Lord Popham.