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''Clarence'' is a [[Creator/{{BBC}} BBC2]] sitcom which concerns the relationship between Clarence Sale (Ronnie Barker), a myopic furniture lifter, and Jane Travers (Creator/JosephineTewson), a temporary maid who he meets up with whilst lifting furniture during the Coronation Day of King George VI. Clarence is instantly smitten with the woman and proposes marriage, but Travers is warier and goes for a trial run of living together but sleeping separately. Luckily, an opportunity arises when her dead aunt gives her a cottage in the Oxfordshire countryside, giving her the chance to ensure whether this extremely short-sighted and trouble-causing man is really the right partner for her.
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''Clarence'' is a [[Creator/{{BBC}} BBC2]] sitcom which concerns the relationship between Clarence Sale (Ronnie Barker), (Creator/RonnieBarker), a myopic furniture lifter, and Jane Travers (Creator/JosephineTewson), a temporary maid who he meets up with whilst lifting furniture during the Coronation Day of King George VI. Clarence is instantly smitten with the woman and proposes marriage, but Travers is warier and goes for a trial run of living together but sleeping separately. Luckily, an opportunity arises when her dead aunt gives her a cottage in the Oxfordshire countryside, giving her the chance to ensure whether this extremely short-sighted and trouble-causing man is really the right partner for her.
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''Clarence'' is a [[Creator/{{BBC}} BBC2]] sitcom which concerns the relationship between Clarence Sale, a myopic furniture lifter, and Jane Travers, a temporary maid who he meets up with whilst lifting furniture during the Coronation Day of King George VI. Clarence is instantly smitten with the woman and proposes marriage, but Travers is warier and goes for a trial run of living together but sleeping separately. Luckily, an opportunity arises when her dead aunt gives her a cottage in the Oxfordshire countryside, giving her the chance to ensure whether this extremely short-sighted and trouble-causing man is really the right partner for her.
Expanded from an episode from his previous work ''Six Dates with Barker'' called "1937: The Removals Person", this work proved to be the final sitcom for [[Series/TheTwoRonnies Ronnie Barker]] before he retired for the most part from showbusiness - even then, it was under a pen name of Bob Ferris (a ShoutOut to the character from Series/TheLikelyLads) and was only made because, as the writer of the series, he could set it in his native Oxfordshire home.
Expanded from an episode from his previous work ''Six Dates with Barker'' called "1937: The Removals Person", this work proved to be the final sitcom for [[Series/TheTwoRonnies Ronnie Barker]] before he retired for the most part from showbusiness - even then, it was under a pen name of Bob Ferris (a ShoutOut to the character from Series/TheLikelyLads) and was only made because, as the writer of the series, he could set it in his native Oxfordshire home.
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''Clarence'' is a [[Creator/{{BBC}} BBC2]] sitcom which concerns the relationship between Clarence Sale, Sale (Ronnie Barker), a myopic furniture lifter, and Jane Travers, Travers (Creator/JosephineTewson), a temporary maid who he meets up with whilst lifting furniture during the Coronation Day of King George VI. Clarence is instantly smitten with the woman and proposes marriage, but Travers is warier and goes for a trial run of living together but sleeping separately. Luckily, an opportunity arises when her dead aunt gives her a cottage in the Oxfordshire countryside, giving her the chance to ensure whether this extremely short-sighted and trouble-causing man is really the right partner for her.
Expanded from an episode from his previous work ''Six Dates with Barker'' called "1937: The Removals Person", this work proved to be the final sitcom for[[Series/TheTwoRonnies Ronnie Barker]] Barker before he retired for the most part from showbusiness - even then, it was under a pen name of Bob Ferris (a ShoutOut to the character from Series/TheLikelyLads) ''Series/TheLikelyLads'') and was only made because, as the writer of the series, he could set it in his native Oxfordshire home.
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''Clarence'', is a [[Creator/{{BBC}} BBC2]] which concerns the relationship between Clarence Sale, a myopic furniture lifter, and Jane Travers, a temporary maid who he meets up with whilst lifting furniture during the Coronation Day of King George VI. Clarence is instantly smitten with the woman and proposes marriage, but Travers is warier and goes for a trial run of living together but sleeping separately. Luckily, an opportunity arises when her dead aunt gives her a cottage in the Oxfordshire countryside, giving her the chance to ensure whether this extremely short-sighted and trouble-causing man is really the right partner for her.
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* BlindMistake: Despite wearing glasses, Clarence has difficulty seeing and as a tendency to screw up because of this, such as mistaking a postbox for a person, stepping on porcelain, and mistaking the toilet for a lift.
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* BlindMistake: Despite wearing glasses, Clarence has difficulty seeing and as has a tendency to screw up because of this, such as mistaking a postbox for a person, stepping on porcelain, and mistaking the toilet for a lift.
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* AnArmAndALeg: Mrs Titheridge, who Clarence forms a relationship with, only has one leg, with the other leg being artificial.
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''Clarence'', is a [[Creator/{{BBC}} BBC2]] which concerns the relationship between Clarence Sale, a myopic furniture lifter, and Jane Travers, a temporary maid who he meets up with whilst lifting furniture during the Coronation Day of King George VI. Clarence is instantly smitten with the woman and proposes marriage, but Travers is warier and goes for a trial run of living together but sleeping separately. Luckily, an opportunity arises when her dead aunt gives her a cottage in the Oxfordshire countryside, giving her the chance to ensure whether this extremely short-sighted and trouble-causing man is really the right partner for her.
Expanded from an episode from his previous work ''Six Dates with Barker'' called "1937: The Removals Person", this work proved to be the final sitcom for [[Series/TheTwoRonnies Ronnie Barker]] before he retired for the most part from showbusiness - even then, it was under a pen name of Bob Ferris (a ShoutOut to the character from Series/TheLikelyLads) and was only made because, as the writer of the series, he could set it in his native Oxfordshire home.
Ultimately, the show would last for one series in 1988.
!!Tropes in this series:
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* AccidentalProposal: At the end of the episode, Clarence decides to propose to Travers. However, due to his blindness, he ends up proposing to Angela instead. She gives him a DopeSlap for his trouble.
* AdaptationalNameChange: In "The Removals Person", Barker's character was named Fred. Here in this expanded series, he has been renamed Clarence.
* AnArmAndALeg: Mrs Titheridge, who Clarence forms a relationship with, only has one leg, with the other leg being artificial.
* {{Arcadia}}: Clarence and Travers's countryside house in an Oxfordshire village, the beauty of which is punctuated by the occasional drawings in the episode
* BlindMistake: Despite wearing glasses, Clarence has difficulty seeing and as a tendency to screw up because of this, such as mistaking a postbox for a person, stepping on porcelain, and mistaking the toilet for a lift.
* BlindWithoutThem: {{Subverted}}. Clarence claims to be unable to see without his glasses, but in fact, he's pretty much blind ''with'' them as well.
* BritishBrevity: Only one series of 6 episodes was ever made.
* CharacterTitle: The show is named for its main protagonist, Clarence Sale.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: In all fairness, Clarence is not a person who should be legally cleared to drive and it shows, with him struggling to stay on the road and ultimately driving into a ditch.
* EekAMouse: When Travers thinks that there is a mouse living in their new cottage, she freaks, launches herself onto the lap of Clarence, and asks him to get rid of it.
* FourthDateMarriage: Only one meeting with Travers and by the end of it, Clarence is asking her to marry him.
* TheGreatDepression: The series takes place in 1937, with Clarence starting the series by clearing out the house of a UpperClassTwit during the Coronation Day of King George VI.
* HappilyEverAfter: The series ends with Travers and Clarence happily heading off to get married.
* HowManyFingers: Travers when Clarence claims that he can actually see better without his glasses in Episode 3 - whilst FlippingTheBird at him.
-->'''Travers''': You lying devil. How many fingers am I holding up?
-->'''Clarence''': I don't know, but I can guess.
* {{Malaproper}}: In Episode 4, Clarence confuses "celebration" with "celibacy".
-->'''Clarence''': They're condemned, ain't they, to a life of complete celebration.
-->'''Travers''': Celibacy.
-->'''Clarence''': Yes exactly. That and all that, yeah.
* MistakenIdentity: Thanks to Clarence's near blindness, he frequently mistakes people for other people. The standout example is when he proposes to Angela in Episode 1 under the belief that she's actually Travers.
* NeverBareheaded: Clarence is never seen without his cap - his explanation for this is that if he took it off, he'll never be able to find it again.
* NewJobEpisode: In Episode 5, Clarence manages to get a job working for the Sewage Works, although the resulting stench from it is [[WiltingOdor horrific enough that Travers asks him to give in his notice by episode's end]].
* PreviouslyOn: Travers usually provides narration catching the viewer up to speed on what is happening in the series at the start of each episode after the first.
* PricelessMingVase: In the first episode, whilst showing Clarence what to do, Vaile puts attention on several pieces of porcelain, some of which were owned by the Duke of Wellington. Of course, Clarence is practically blind, so he ends up stepping on one of them.
* RichBitch: Mrs Vaile is a fancy upper-class woman who admonishes and criticizes her daughter Angela for her feelings over her broken engagement and has a poor opinion of maids.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: According to Episode 2, a lot of people think that Clarence looks like his father. He personally can't see the resemblance, even though he mistakes his reflection in the mirror for a picture of his father.
* WiltingOdor: The horrific stench that comes off Clarence's sewage-covered shoes, which is enough to both bar him from the bus and to lead to an evacuation of a mass of people (and a dog) from a building. Even a pig flees in horror at the stench.
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Expanded from an episode from his previous work ''Six Dates with Barker'' called "1937: The Removals Person", this work proved to be the final sitcom for [[Series/TheTwoRonnies Ronnie Barker]] before he retired for the most part from showbusiness - even then, it was under a pen name of Bob Ferris (a ShoutOut to the character from Series/TheLikelyLads) and was only made because, as the writer of the series, he could set it in his native Oxfordshire home.
Ultimately, the show would last for one series in 1988.
!!Tropes in this series:
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* AccidentalProposal: At the end of the episode, Clarence decides to propose to Travers. However, due to his blindness, he ends up proposing to Angela instead. She gives him a DopeSlap for his trouble.
* AdaptationalNameChange: In "The Removals Person", Barker's character was named Fred. Here in this expanded series, he has been renamed Clarence.
* AnArmAndALeg: Mrs Titheridge, who Clarence forms a relationship with, only has one leg, with the other leg being artificial.
* {{Arcadia}}: Clarence and Travers's countryside house in an Oxfordshire village, the beauty of which is punctuated by the occasional drawings in the episode
* BlindMistake: Despite wearing glasses, Clarence has difficulty seeing and as a tendency to screw up because of this, such as mistaking a postbox for a person, stepping on porcelain, and mistaking the toilet for a lift.
* BlindWithoutThem: {{Subverted}}. Clarence claims to be unable to see without his glasses, but in fact, he's pretty much blind ''with'' them as well.
* BritishBrevity: Only one series of 6 episodes was ever made.
* CharacterTitle: The show is named for its main protagonist, Clarence Sale.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: In all fairness, Clarence is not a person who should be legally cleared to drive and it shows, with him struggling to stay on the road and ultimately driving into a ditch.
* EekAMouse: When Travers thinks that there is a mouse living in their new cottage, she freaks, launches herself onto the lap of Clarence, and asks him to get rid of it.
* FourthDateMarriage: Only one meeting with Travers and by the end of it, Clarence is asking her to marry him.
* TheGreatDepression: The series takes place in 1937, with Clarence starting the series by clearing out the house of a UpperClassTwit during the Coronation Day of King George VI.
* HappilyEverAfter: The series ends with Travers and Clarence happily heading off to get married.
* HowManyFingers: Travers when Clarence claims that he can actually see better without his glasses in Episode 3 - whilst FlippingTheBird at him.
-->'''Travers''': You lying devil. How many fingers am I holding up?
-->'''Clarence''': I don't know, but I can guess.
* {{Malaproper}}: In Episode 4, Clarence confuses "celebration" with "celibacy".
-->'''Clarence''': They're condemned, ain't they, to a life of complete celebration.
-->'''Travers''': Celibacy.
-->'''Clarence''': Yes exactly. That and all that, yeah.
* MistakenIdentity: Thanks to Clarence's near blindness, he frequently mistakes people for other people. The standout example is when he proposes to Angela in Episode 1 under the belief that she's actually Travers.
* NeverBareheaded: Clarence is never seen without his cap - his explanation for this is that if he took it off, he'll never be able to find it again.
* NewJobEpisode: In Episode 5, Clarence manages to get a job working for the Sewage Works, although the resulting stench from it is [[WiltingOdor horrific enough that Travers asks him to give in his notice by episode's end]].
* PreviouslyOn: Travers usually provides narration catching the viewer up to speed on what is happening in the series at the start of each episode after the first.
* PricelessMingVase: In the first episode, whilst showing Clarence what to do, Vaile puts attention on several pieces of porcelain, some of which were owned by the Duke of Wellington. Of course, Clarence is practically blind, so he ends up stepping on one of them.
* RichBitch: Mrs Vaile is a fancy upper-class woman who admonishes and criticizes her daughter Angela for her feelings over her broken engagement and has a poor opinion of maids.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: According to Episode 2, a lot of people think that Clarence looks like his father. He personally can't see the resemblance, even though he mistakes his reflection in the mirror for a picture of his father.
* WiltingOdor: The horrific stench that comes off Clarence's sewage-covered shoes, which is enough to both bar him from the bus and to lead to an evacuation of a mass of people (and a dog) from a building. Even a pig flees in horror at the stench.
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