Further Adventures of Lucky Jim

Further Adventures of Lucky Jim or The New Adventures of Lucky Jim is a comedy television series which first aired on BBC 1 in 1967.[1][2] Inspired by the novel Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, it updates the story from the early 1950s of the novel to mid-1960s Swinging London. It stars Keith Barron as the young university lecturer Jim Dixon. The scriptwriters wrote a belated sequel The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim starring Enn Reitel in 1982.

Further Adventures of Lucky Jim
GenreComedy
Based onLucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis
Written byDick Clement
Ian La Frenais
StarringKeith Barron
Colin Jeavons
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes7
Production
ProducerDuncan Wood
Running time30 minutes
Production companyBBC
Release
Original networkBBC One
Original release2 May (1967-05-02) –
13 June 1967 (1967-06-13)

The majority of the episodes are now considered lost.

Other actors who appeared in the series include Suzy Kendall, Nerys Hughes, John Le Mesurier, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, John Junkin, Donald Hewlett, William Kendall, Robert Raglan, Felix Bowness, Janina Faye, Patrick Newell, Diana King and Michael Balfour.

Main cast

References
  1. Pringle p.66
  2. https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/further_adventures_of_lucky_jim/

Bibliography
  • David Pringle. Imaginary People: A Who's who of Fictional Characters from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day. Scolar Press, 1996.
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