Roy Barraclough in cult comedy Pardon My Genie DVD, intro and first scene.

Pardon My Genie - Series 1 DVD is out now.

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Aimed at a young audience but hugely popular with children and adults alike, Pardon My Genie was devised and written by future Roberts Robots and Rentaghost creator Bob Block.

When a young shop assistant called Hal Adden casually tries to polish an old watering can -- well, you can guess what happens! But the genie who appears is as rusty as the can he lives in; he's four thousand years old, and his magic doesn't always work as well as it should...

Ellis Jones plays Hal, with Roy Barraclough (Sez Les) starring as his long-suffering boss, hardware shop owner Mr Cobbledick, and Hugh Paddick (Round the Horne) as the Genie. This first series of the memorably quirky comedy series, screened in 1972, is available on DVD for the first time.

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[ian1200]

If you ever get to see the one with the sausages in you will laugh your tits off.I can still remember it after all this time.One of the funniest things I have EVER seen.As good as Danny Kay in the 'Court Jester' " the vessel with the pestle".

[commissionerPleb]

Gobbledick?

[TheAndrew179]

Haha no that was I dream of Jeannie his name was Major Nelson and his genie Jeannie who kept getting him into trouble yes in coco beach and he was an astronaut search it on youtube :)

[MrDoncos]

As camp as a row of tents.Just brilliant

[Dave Showler]

" Perforated hardboard!!" That's not the genie I remember!!!

[Anabela Matos]

...Bons Tempos...

[spinswasher]

fantastic remember it when i was young !!!!!!

[AuntyM66]

Yes , remember Mr Cobbledick.

[probro9898]

I remember this show well. I loved it as a kid, but things like this never seem the same as you remembered them.

[americandiscocrash]

is this that tv show where the astronaut lives in coco beach and he keeps getting shit-faced on g and t's, which always winds him up in the craziest of predicaments, but he imagines some genie causing the predicaments? i think his name was hal. j.r. of mulligan's stew was in it.