Chappell later created the Yorkshire Television sitcoms Rising Damp, among other series.

The theme was office politics in the accounts department of a fictitious TV rental company.

The scripts written by Eric Chappell formed the basis of a remake, Fiddlers Three, broadcast in 1991.

[1] Surviving episodes of The Squirrels were released by Network DVD in the UK (Region 2) on 29 April 2013.

The rest of the first series survives only in inferior recordings to the original video format, either re-converted from NTSC copies (1/2, 1/3) or as a domestic videotape (1/4).