[1][2] Written by Jimmy Perry, the show starred Terry Scott, Hugh Lloyd, John Clive, Leon Thau, Anne de Vigier and Lynn Dalby as garden gnomes living at 25 Telegraph Road, Dulwich, London, England.

[3] Jimmy Perry was very interested in gnomes and originally only intended it to be a short sketch for The Morecambe and Wise Show,[3] but it was his wife who convinced him that there was a whole series in it.

In 2009, he said of the series "Terry Scott and Hugh Lloyd were two gnomes who would sit by a pond and commented on life, race, religion – everything.

"[6] Frank Williams was in the same scene, and recounted his experiences in his memoirs, writing "Hugh and Terry played garden gnomes.

Clad in Carnaby Street trousers (it was quite difficult to find anything that fitted me in that haunt of trendy young people) I wandered around as a society photographer.