Rising Damp

Rising Damp was the title of the British comedy TV series by ITV that in the late 1970s by the KRO was broadcast on Dutch television. The episodes lasted 30 minutes and in total there are 28 episodes created in the period 1974-1978.

It turned in the series to the Huckster Rupert Rigsby (Leonard Rossiter) has that old-fashioned views, is stingy, sluttish, right in his thinking and biased in relation to its tenants and this continuous spied on. These were Miss Ruth Jones (Frances de la Tour) who worked on a school, an old maid was and was looking for a man that never did, Alan Moore (Richard Beckinsale) a left-wing student from a middle class family and Philip Smith (Don Warnington) a black immigrant from Africa who claims to be the son of an African tribal chief.

Thread in the episodes is the difficult relationship between Rigsby on the one hand and on the other hand, are tenants, leading to hilarious situations.

In 1980 came a feature film of the series.

Striking was the choice of the KRO for the name backyard instead rising damp as Rigsby's House an old Victorian mansion was and so no room but due to lack of maintenance moist, old and decrepit.