Come Back Mrs Noah

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An utter flop starring Molly Sugden and Gorden Kaye about a housewife on Britain's first space mission. Put out of its misery after the first series.

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Do You Remember Come Back Mrs Noah?

Roxxy on 2011-02-05 21:48:05

I remember seeing a couple of episodes of this- set in 2050 at a time when Britain has regained it's status as world leader, the plot focuses on the accidental launching of the UK's first space exploration vehicle 'Britannia 7' when it contains only a pair of top-brass military inspectors, a Government minister, a loud-mouth Yorkshire journalist, and Mrs. Gertrude Noah, who won a visit to view the space craft as a prize in a TV cookery competition. The show also starred Ian Lavender, with Gordon Kaye as anchorman of BBC news magazine programme 'Far and Wide' (a spoof on the then popular 'Nationwide'). Much of the series focuses on the unsuccesful efforts of ground control to bring the hapless occupants of 'Britannia 7' back to Earth- which ultimately fail and send the ship careering off out of control into deep space. One episode terrified me as a child, when for some reason Mrs. Noah has a robot double built of her on board. The machine copying her physical details gets it wrong, with the result that the finished robot comes out with an abnormally long nose and three legs. The android's head eventually falls off and carries on talking on it's own on the floor, with wiring and circuitry pertruding from it's neck...I couldn't sleep for nights after that, scared the life out of me.