The Gnomes of Dulwich

The Gnomes of Dulwich is a United Kingdom television sit-com originally shown in six episodes from 12 May 1969 to 16 June 1969. Written by Jimmy Perry, the show starred Terry Scott, Hugh Lloyd, John Clive, Leon Thau, Anne de Vigier and Lynn Dalby as gnomes living at 25 Telegraph Road, Dulwich, London. The show satirised the European Common Market, with new plastic European gnomes in a neighbouring garden threatening the concrete British gnomes. T... more

The Gnomes of Dulwich is a United Kingdom television sit-com originally shown in six episodes from 12 May 1969 to 16 June 1969. Written by Jimmy Perry, the show starred Terry Scott, Hugh Lloyd, John Clive, Leon Thau, Anne de Vigier and Lynn Dalby as gnomes living at 25 Telegraph Road, Dulwich, London. The show satirised the European Common Market, with new plastic European gnomes in a neighbouring garden threatening the concrete British gnomes. The title is a reference to the term "Gnomes of Zürich". The tapes were wiped in the seventies, and no material seems to have survived. less