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Overview
Holding the Fort is an ITV situation comedy starring Peter Davison, Patricia Hodge and Matthew Kelly. It was an early product of the writing team of Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. Three series were recorded, a total of twenty episodes, first aired between 1980 and 1982, concurrent with Davison also starring in Doctor Who. It was made for the ITV network by LWT The situation was a role-reversal comedy, in which the premise was that Russell Milburn becomes a "house-husband" to raise his baby daughter while his wife, Penny a captain in the Women's Royal Army Corps, goes out to work. Russell's friend Fitzroy, or "Fitz", adds to the comic tension by encouraging Russell's enthusiasm for football, pacifism and beer.
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Other works by Laurence Marks
Believe Nothing
2002
Starting Out
1999
Unfinished Business
1998
Goodnight Sweetheart
1993
Get Back
1992
Love Hurts
1992
So You Think You've Got Troubles
1991
Birds of a Feather
1989
Young, Gifted And Broke
1989
Snakes and Ladders
1989
The New Statesman
1987
Shine on Harvey Moon
1982
