History Series / GeorgeAndMildred

* TheAllegedCar: George's motorcycle is an old clapped-out vehicle that Mildred rightfully hates. It even manages to embarrass her in the Series 2 opening titles, when the sidecar detaches and leaves her stranded in front of the peering Fourmiles.

* TheAllegedCar: George's motorcycle.
* AwfulWeddedLife: George and Mildred, and also Ethel and Humphrey.
* AwkwardlyPlacedBathtub: In one episode the water in the bathroom is off due to plumbing work. Rather than lug water upstairs to take a bath, George decides to bathe in an old tin bath in the living room. Mildred brings the women from her keep fit class home and George attempts to hide by ducking under the surface of the water. HilarityEnsues.

* CheerfulChild: Tristram. He does have a fabulous ability to blurt out awkward truths, though.

* DIYDisaster: Jerry somehow manages to hook the Ropers' shower up to the Fourmiles' plumbing.
* DropInCharacter: Jerry.

* GoodParents: Jeffrey and Ann.
* HappilyMarried: Jeffrey and Ann.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Jeffrey is a snob, but living next to George would be genuninely ghastly.
* LazyHusband: George

* NameAndName

* PornStash: In one episode, Mildred gives away a box of George's old gardening magazines to the church jumble sale. George then confesses that only the top layer was gardening magazines and that the rest were porno mags. There follows a desperate attempt to retrieve the box before TheVicar looks in it.
* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: Happens twice in the Christmas 1977 episode, "There's No Business Like Show Business".
** While helping Mildred learn her lines as ugly stepsister Griselda for the ''Cinderella'' pantomime, George reads the following out loud (in a bored monotone):
--->"I shall marry the handsome over." (''Looks confused then turns the page.'') "Prince."
** On the night, Mildred is down with 'flu and her replacement, George, is injured in a car accident, so Jeffrey has to go on stage as Griselda at the last minute, holding a copy of the script.
--->'''Jeffrey:''' ''[reading from the script]'' Sorry I'm late, I was making myself. ''[turns the page]'' Beautiful. Move stage left.
* SexlessMarriage: Continuing the thread from ''Series/ManAboutTheHouse'', George and Mildred's marriage is devoid of intimacy. Mildred occasionally tries to get George interested, but he never reciprocates.

** George vs Jeffrey
** George vs Ethel, which is particularly funny since she could be the page image for NouveauRiche
* {{Spinoff}}
* TrafficWardens: George had a job as a traffic warden for a while.
* UnconfessedUnemployment: George quit his job as a TrafficWarden, but kept going out each day dressed in the uniform so Mildred wouldn't find out. Mildred eventually found out when George's boss called up to tell her George had not returned the uniform.
* YankTheDogsChain: George learns that a girl he had an affair with on VE night gave birth to a boy nine months later and naturally concludes that he's the father. After meeting the boy (now a professional plumber) he learns that he's now married with a daughter and takes the first available opportunity to go round and gets to know his wife and child [[spoiler:and then his alleged son comes in with paperwork indicating that his father's actually his mate who was there on the same night.]]

* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: While helping Mildred learn her lines for the ''Cinderella'' pantomine, George reads the following out loud (in a bored monotone):
-->"I shall marry the handsome over." (''Looks confused then turns the page.'') "Prince."
* SexlessMarriage

* YankTheDogsChain: George learns that a girl he had an affair with on VE night gave birth to a boy nine months later and naturally concludes that he's the father. After meeting the boy (now a professional plumber) he learns that he's now married with a daughter and takes the first available opportunity to go round and [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming gets to know his wife and child]] [[spoiler: and then his alleged son comes in with paperwork indicating that his father's actually his mate who was there on the same night.]]

Mildred's snobbish sister Ethel (Avril Elgar) and her wealthy husband Humphrey (Reginald Marsh) occasionally visit, as does Mildred's mother (Gretchen Franklin). Mildred often makes subtle and unsubtle digs at Ethel's age, or social status and pretensions, when Ethel visits. George's friend Jerry (Creator/RoryKinnear), a jack-of-all-trades, also visits, much to Mildred's annoyance. Jerry is fond of referring to Mildred as "[[MaliciousMisnaming Mildew]]".

Mildred's snobbish sister Ethel (Avril Elgar) and her wealthy husband Humphrey (Reginald Marsh) occasionally visit, as does Mildred's mother (Gretchen Franklin). Mildred often makes subtle and unsubtle digs at Ethel's age, or social status and pretensions, when Ethel visits. George's friend Jerry (Creator/RoyKinnear), a jack-of-all-trades, also visits, much to Mildred's annoyance. Jerry is fond of referring to Mildred as "[[MaliciousMisnaming Mildew]]".

George and Mildred Roper have left their old house after receiving a compulsory purchase order from the Council and move to 46 Peacock Crescent in Hampton Wick. While Mildred enjoys the chance to better herself in her new surroundings, she is always being thwarted--usually by the lazy and generally unemployed George, who has no interest in climbing the social ladder, and continues to show a lack of interest in sexual relations with Mildred.

George and Mildred's yuppie next-door neighbours are Jeffrey Fourmile, a snobbish estate agent, and his wife, Ann. They have a young son called Tristram, who gets on well with Mildred and George, and in series 3, a second child called Tarquin is born. The Conservative-supporting Jeffrey is greatly irritated by socialist George, who frequently annoys him.

Mildred's snobbish sister Ethel and her wealthy husband, Humphrey, occasionally visit, as does Mildred's mother. Mildred often makes subtle and unsubtle digs at Ethel's age, or social status and pretensions, when Ethel visits. George's friend Jerry, a jack-of-all-trades, also visits, much to Mildred's annoyance. Jerry is fond of referring to Mildred as "[[MaliciousMisnaming Mildew]]".

''George and Mildred'' is a British sitcom that aired on Creator/{{ITV}} from 1976 to 1979. It was a spin-off from ''Series/ManAboutTheHouse''.

Ranked 55 in ''BritainsBestSitcom''. ''Series/TheRopers'' is its TransatlanticEquivalent, much as ''Series/ThreesCompany'' is one to ''Man About the House'' itself.

* DropInCharacter: Jerry

* SlobsVersusSnobs: George vs Jeffrey.

* CrookedContractor: Jerry may not actually be crooked as such, by he is unbelievably shonky.

Ranked 55 in ''BritainsBestSitcom''. ''Series/TheRopers'' is its TransatlanticEquivalent, much as ''Series/ThreesCompany'' is to ''Man About the House'' itself.

* BritCom

''George and Mildred'' is a British sitcom that aired from 1976 to 1979. It was a spin-off from ''Series/ManAboutTheHouse''.

Ranked 55 in ''BritainsBestSitcom''. ''Series/TheRopers'' is its TransatlanticEquivalent.

''George and Mildred'' is a British sitcom that aired from 1976 to 1979. It was a spin-off from ''{{Man About the House}}''.

Ranked 55 in ''BritainsBestSitcom''.

Mildred's snobbish sister Ethel and her wealthy husband, Humphrey, occasionally visit, as does Mildred's mother. Mildred often makes subtle and unsubtle digs at Ethel's age, or social status and pretensions, when Ethel visits. George's friend Jerry, a jack-of-all-trades, also visits, much to Mildred's annoyance. Jerry is fond of referring to Mildred as "[[AccidentalMisnaming Mildew]]".

* JerkassHasAPoint: Jeffrey is a snob, but living next to George would be genninely ghastly.

* AccidentalMisnaming: Jerry is fond of referring to Mildred as "Mildew".

* JerkassHasAPoint: Jeffrey is a snob, but living next to George would be genuninely ghastly.

Mildred's snobbish sister Ethel and her wealthy husband, Humphrey, occasionally visit, as does Mildred's mother. Mildred often makes subtle and unsubtle digs at Ethel's age, or social status and pretensions, when Ethel visits. George's friend Jerry, a jack-of-all-trades, also visits, much to Mildred's annoyance. Jerry is fond of referring to Mildred as "[[MyNameIsNotDurwood Mildew]]".

* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Jerry is fond of referring to Mildred as "Mildew".