Up Pompeii!

Name: Up Pompeii!
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Frankie Howerd, Elizabeth Larner, Kerry Gardner, Jeanne Mockford, Wallas Eaton

1969

★★★★☆ 7.2/10

📺 2 Seasons

🎬 14 Episodes

📅 Ended

🌐 EN

⏱️ 30 min/episode

Comedy

Up Pompeii! is a British television comedy series broadcast between 1969 and 1970, starring Frankie Howerd. The first series was written by Talbot Rothwell, a scriptwriter for the Carry On films, and the second series by Rothwell and Sid Colin. Two further specials were transmitted in 1975 and 1991. In ancient Pompeii, much-put-upon slave Lurcio navigates the chaotic lives of his owner's family

Seasons

Season 1

1969 • 8 Episodes

Lurcio struggles to deliver the prologue; Ludicrus Sextus suggests the price of freedom should be 500 drachma; and Captain Bilius' shipment of slave girls brings an opportunity to make money.

Season 2

1970 • 6 Episodes

Ludicrus' uncle dies and leaves him 10,000 drachma. The only snag is that the money will only be paid to Ludicrus if he has a son named after his uncle.