History Series / ComeBackMrsNoah

* SpaceClothes: Scarth Dare and Sir Garfield Hawke piloting the rescue spacecraft somehow requires them dressing up in gold lame.

* SpaceStation: Most the action (such as it is) takes place the Britannia Seven space station.

* TwoBeingsOneBody: A TeleporterAccident winds up creating a fused cat-parrot hybrid.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: It seems the government of 2050 - which is neither Conservative nor Labour, as those two parties have formed an opposition coalition - is just as uninterested in taking real action as the governments of the 1970s.
-->"In reply the Prime Minister said he had already set up a Royal Commission to look into the whole matter, and this was the strongest measure any government could take, short of doing anything about it."

* ExpendableClone: A robot clone of Mrs. Noah is created to test the teleporter. As usual something goes wrong during the replication process, resulting in a three-legged Mrs. Noah with GagNose that tries to molest Carstairs until the real Noah knocks its head off.

* TrrrillingRrrs: Carstairs and Sir Garfield Hawke.

The series then centres on efforts to bring Mrs Noah back to Earth. The news bulletins on Earth revealed countries like the United States and Germany had to turn to Britain, the most successful nation on Earth, for help. After a failed effort to nudge the craft into the Earth's atmosphere, the series concluded with Mrs. Noah, and crew, careering off uncontrollably to the depths of space.

* MissionControl: Many of the scenes on Earth centred around mission control (or "mish con" as Carstairs and Fanshaw call them) attempting to find a way to retrieve Britannia Seven.

** There's a gag about graffiti in the Channel Tunnel. Which in TheSeventies was just another pipe-dream like the fusion reactor and curing cancer.

* WomenDrivers: One of the BridgeBunnies pilots the rescue rocket sent to retrieve the title character, only to miss their launch window because she [[RuleOfFunny floods the engine]].

* BridgeBunnies: [[MissionControl Mish-con]] is populated entirely by [[KavorkaMan middle-aged]] {{Stuffy Brit}}s wearing ties, and beautiful women with {{SciFi Bob Haircut}}s wearing SpaceClothes that [[FanserviceExtra show off their legs and cleavage]].

* DistractedByTheSexy: At the end of "The Last Chance", Sir Garfield Hawk has only to press a button to fire a beam that will nudge Britannia Seven into Earth's atmosphere so that the five passengers can jump out without dying of asphyxiation. Unfortunately, at the critical moment, he is too busy gazing amorously at his fellow bridge bunny, Scarth Dare, and when he realises the countdown to firing has already finished, he frantically presses the first button he can - which fires a beam that pushes Britannia Seven ''away'' from the Earth.

* TrrrillingRrrs: Carstairs and the guy in charge of mish con.

* AssShove: After the lift stops working, the crew attempt to use the [[TubeTravel suction tubes to travel]] around the space station. Unfortunately being in the tube when another item is shooting up behind you is a bad idea.

* AssShove: After the lift stops working, the crew attempt to use the suction tubes to travel around the space station. Unfortunately being in the tube when another item is shooting up behind you is a bad idea.

* TwentyMinutesInTheFuture:
** Made in 1978, but set in 2050, the series mostly portrayed its 'futuristic' status via the existence of gadgets such as the instantly boiling atomic kettle.
** There's a gag about graffiti in the Channel Tunnel. Which in TheSeventies was just another pipe-dream like the fusion reactor and curing cancer.

* BridgeBunnies: MissionControl is populated by middle-aged {{Stuffy Brit}}s wearing ties and beautiful women wearing SpaceClothes that reveal their cleavage.

* BridgeBunnies: MissionControl is populated by {{Stuffy Brit}}s wearing ties and beautiful women wearing SpaceClothes that reveal their cleavage.

* TwentyMinutesInTheFuture: Made in 1978, but set in 2050, the series mostly portrayed its 'futuristic' status via the existence of gadgets such as the instantly boiling atomic kettle.

* YourTelevisionHatesYou: The protagonists trapped on the SpaceStation reassure themselves that the people back home undoubtedly have a plan to get them back down, only to connect to Mission Control as he's saying "I've no idea how we're going to get them back down!" They're then switched to ''Far and Wide'', where the presenter is telling their family members that they'll be stranded in space forever before he's quickly hushed by a technician.

* YourCheatingHeart: It seems Mrs. Noah's husband is wasting no time using her absence to get to know his widowed neighbour, the much younger Ivy Bassett, a little better. Mrs. Noah rubbishes Cunliffe's speculation that they might be committing adultery while she's away, citing the age difference as evidence ''against'' it rather than evidence ''for'' it. Meanwhile, Fanshaw's wife has decided to go on their planned holiday to Ibiza - and has taken his brother along so as not to waste the other ticket. "He said he knew you'd understand," Fanshaw is told.

* FutureImperfect: Music/RingoStarr is mis-identified as the inventor of the telephone.