Comedy greats Jimmy Jewel and Hilda Baker star as Eli Pledge and his sister Nellie in the classic award-winning comedy - Nearest and Dearest. Eli - an aging lothario - and Nellie - virtuous to the last but in possession of a wonderfully flexible grip on the English language - inherit clapped out condiment company Pledge's Purer Pickles from their father. Much hilarity ensues amongst the malaproprisms bolshie workforce and none-too-subtle double entendres as the siblings try their
Hilda Baker and Jimmy Jewel were never better than starring in the smash hit tv series NEAREST AND DEAREST. The fact that the pair of them could'nt stand the sight of each other by the end of the seventh series and yet still produced great comdey. Presented here for the first time ever is the complete series one from 1969 featuring all six episodes. Set "up north" in a run-down pickle factory, Nellie and her lazy brother Eli inherit their late father's factory and all the staff and problems that go with it. Written by the power-house of 70's ITV comdey Vince Powell and Harry Driver we follow Nellie and her mispronunciation of words (sometimes of war!) agaist her brother and his attemps to close the factory and bag his share of the money. Hilda Baker finally found stardom through this series and the next six seasons before its own sort of spin off "Not On Your Nellie" - Classic TV!
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