This was Su's first
comedy for the BBC. She played
Flo opposite Paul Nicholas as
Jimmy, a couple of squatting
hippies who take up residence in
a house owned by a staid, middle
class couple.
Hi-de-Hi!
(1979-1988)
Su is undoubtedly
best known for Hi-de-Hi!,
and it has been known for people
to still holler "Hi de
Hi" at her in the
supermarket.
This comedy show ran
for eight series, over 9 years
and in all 58 shows were made. Hi-de-Hi!
was one of the BBC's biggest
sit-com successes and is still a
favourite with many people. Only
very recently a 1985 special was
broadcast and attracted big
ratings. As well as the TV show,
the Hi-de-Hi! cast also
starred in a stage production in
Summer 1983/84.
Su played the put
upon maid Ivy Teasdale in this
very popular Perry & Croft
comedy set in the roaring
twenties. Ivy was working for
Lord Meldrum in his big London
house where her father Alf (Paul
Shane) was butler. Alf was always
at loggerheads with footman James
Twelvetrees (Jeffrey Holland).
This show is a personal favourite
of Su and is long overdue for a
repeat run.
The setting for this
David Croft comedy was the small,
sleepy railway station of Hatley
in 1963, as Dr. Richard Beeching
set about revolutionising the
railways. Hatley was firmly in
the eye for the axe to fall. Su
played Ethel Schumann, the box
office clerk. Sadly the BBC
proved more of a threat than
Beeching when they finished the
show after 19 episodes.
Incidentally Su sang the theme
tune, set to the of the music
hall favourite 'Oh Mr. Porter'.
This was a pilot
show made by HTV in 1988 in which
Su played Daisy Lane-Clousier, a
prominent journalist whose unruly
kids from her two former
marriages are running havoc. She
advertises for a home help and
along comes stern old Mr Pym,
played by Gordon Jackson.
Sadly Gordon died
shortly after thie pilot was made
and it was never broadcast, and
despite rumours of resurrecting
the idea a couple of years later
with Jeremy Brett as Mr Pym
nothing ever materialised.
