His Lordship Entertains

Hark at Barker had also included sketch inserts, whereas His Lordship Entertains was a sitcom.

It once more starred David Jason as the 100-year-old Dithers and Josephine Tewson as Mildred Bates, two actors who would continue to have a working relationships with Barker.

In fact all of the regular cast reprised their roles from Hark at Barker.

[1] 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.

[2] In addition the scripts were published in Ronnie Barker's anthology All I Ever Wrote.