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''His Lordship Entertains'' was Ronnie Barker's second sitcom vehicle for his Lord Rustless character, first seen three years earlier in ''Hark at Barker'' on ITV. This time though, Rustless had switched channels and was now appearing on BBC2. ''Hark at Barker'' had also included sketch inserts, whereas ''His Lordship Entertains'' was a regular sitcom. Set again in the aristocratic Chrome Hall, which had now become a hotel. It again also starred David Jason as the 100-year-old Dithers and Josephine Tewson as Mildred Bates. Two actors who would go on to have a long working relationship with Barker. In fact all of the regular cast reprised their roles from ''Hark at Barker''. Barker wrote all the scripts under the pseudonym Jonathan Cobbald. (). He liked to refer to the show as "Fawlty Towers mark one" as it appeared on television three years before that other hotel bound sitcom. Four episodes of the sitcom were recently performed on stage by Nottingham University's New Theatre. == Archive status == For many years it was thought that the series had been entirely lost after the tapes were wiped by the BBC. However, the first episode of ''His Lordship Entertains'', 'The Food Inspector', was recovered in 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Missing Believed Wiped: Programme One )〕 In addition the scripts were published in Ronnie Barker's anthology ''All I Ever Wrote''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Literature for "His Lordship Entertains" )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「His Lordship Entertains」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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