It was created by the sitcom writing team of Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke, and it starred veteran actor Lionel Jeffries in one of his few television roles, only seven months after his previous TV sitcom role in Father Charlie, Ian Ogilvy and Brigit Forsyth also appeared.
Thomas Maddison (played by Jeffries) had spent 40 years living in the deepest Cornwall countryside, and hen-pecked at that; his late wife banned him from smoking, drinking, and even casually looking at other women.
Suffice to say, his rather primitive manners, his disgusting habits, and his womanising creates havoc for his son and his daughter-in-law, both of them being well-manicured executives; him in advertising, her in magazine publishing.
Ratings for the second series were lower, with the first five episodes failing to make the ITV-only top ten, at a time when 13 million was needed to enter it.
It was sold to CBS in the same year that the original series finished in the UK, and the US version was named Foot at the Door.