Take a Letter, Mr Jones

Overview

Take a Letter, Mr Jones was a short-lived 1981 British sitcom produced by Southern Television for ITV. It ran for a single series of six episodes. Graham Jones works as personal secretary to female executive Joan Warner within a London-based multinational corporation called 8-Star. Although he ably assists her in their busy office, Graham often helps Joan with her equally hectic domestic arrangements as she is a single mother to seven-year-old Lucy.

Created by Ronald Chesney, Ronald Wolfe

Network

• ITV1

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  John Inman

  Graham Jones

  6 eps

• 

  Rula Lenska

  Joan Warner

  6 eps

• 

  Miriam Margolyes

  Maria

  6 eps

• 

  Joan Blackham

  Ruth

  6 eps

Themes

• role reversal
• secretary
• single mother
• gender roles
• sitcom
• workplace comedy
• single man
• businesswoman
• typist
• office worker

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