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Humphrey Barclay (born 24 March 1941, Dorking, Surrey, England) is a comedy executive and producer. ==Career== He read classics at Cambridge University where his first foray into show business was via the Amateur Dramatic Societyand then Cambridge Footlights revues where he appeared alongside Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, David Hatch, Jonathan Lynn, Jo Kendall and Miriam Margolyes. He was offered a job as a BBC radio producer and soon afterwards put together the team who produced the BBC Home Service comedy show ''I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again'' (four series starting 1964). Moving to television, Barclay oversaw Associated-Rediffusion ''Do Not Adjust Your Set'' (1967–1969). Following the ITV franchise changes of 1968, Barclay moved to London Weekend Television (LWT) for whom he produced the ''Doctor...'' series (1969–1977). One episode in that series involved a hotel proprietor and his wife and was written by John Cleese. Barclay said at the time that he thought there might be a series in the characters, but nothing came of it. Later, Cleese created ''Fawlty Towers'' for the BBC. In 1975, he produced the Donald Sinden/Elaine Stritch sit-com ''Two's Company'', which received the "Best Situation Comedy" BAFTA nomination in 1977. Barclay became Head of Comedy at LWT in 1977 and supervised various successful series including ''A Fine Romance'' (1981–1984). In May 1980 he unveiled ''Metal Mickey'' as a show "with the appeal of ''Star Wars, the Daleks and ''Mork and Mindy''"〔The Guardian, ''Situations vacant''; 27 May 1980〕 Following criticism〔 at the Edinburgh International Television Festival of what was seen as casual racism the LWT series ''Mind Your Language'' (1977–1979; 1986), Barclay commissioned ''No Problem!'', transmitted by Channel 4 during 1983-1985, the first original black-made sitcom for British TV (an earlier series featuring a black family, ''The Fosters'' (ITV, 1976–1977), had been a remake of a US show). Barclay left LWT in 1983 and formed Humphrey Barclay Productions, which produced the media satire ''Hot Metal'' (ITV, 1986–1988), medical sitcom ''Surgical Spirit'' (ITV, 1989-1995), and black sitcom ''Desmond's'' (Channel 4, 1989–1994). In 1996, he returned to LWT as Controller of Comedy and, in 1999, became Head of Comedy Development for Granada Media International. Though already in partial retirement, in April 2002, he joined Celador Productions as Development Executive. 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「Humphrey Barclay」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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