RAYMOND ALLEN was a jobbing writer and sometime cleaner at his local cinema on the Isle of Wight when he submitted a script to the BBC about an accident-prone mummy’s boy.
Although his bread and butter job was writing gags for the likes of Dave Allen, Raymond was also a writer of serious drama, and he brought real depth of character and emotion to what would become Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em. This ability to mix farce with pathos certainly impressed the BBC’s head of comedy, Michael Mills, who gave the show the go-ahead.
The central character of was the man-child Frank Spencer, who blunders his way through life from one job and mishap to another, always supported by his long-suffering wife
