The Magnificent Evans

The Magnificent Evans
Series title card
Created by	Ronnie Barker
Written by	Roy Clarke
Starring	Ronnie Barker Sharon Morgan Myfanwy Talog.
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	6
Production
Running time	30 minutes per episode
Release
Original network	BBC1
Original release	6 September – 11 October 1984

The Magnificent Evans is a 1984 BBC situation comedy written by Roy Clarke and starring Ronnie Barker, Sharon Morgan and Myfanwy Talog.

Plot

Ronnie Barker played Welsh photographer Plantagenet Evans, a tactless but likeable bully with an intolerance towards fools and an overdeveloped sense of his own abilities. Sharon Morgan played Evans's long-time fiancée Rachel, who also doubled as his assistant and had a full-time job steering his lusting eyes away from other women and back to his job.

The series was filmed on location at the old Gwalia bakery on Irfon Terrace in Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys.

It was written by Roy Clarke, who also wrote Open All Hours for Barker, plus successful sitcoms Last of the Summer Wine and Keeping Up Appearances. However, only one series was made and neither Evans nor the premise had the chance to develop any further. The series is now available on Region One DVD and on Region Two DVD as part of The Ultimate Ronnie Barker DVD Collection.

External links

The Magnificent Evans at BBC Programmes
The Magnificent Evans at BBC Online Guide to Comedy
The Magnificent Evans at the Internet Movie Database
The Magnificent Evans at British Comedy Guide

Roy Clarke

Situation comedies	The Misfit (1970–71) Last of the Summer Wine (1973–2010) Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt! (pilot, 1974) Open All Hours (1973, 1976–85) The Growing Pains of PC Penrose (1975) Rosie (1977–81) Potter (1979–83) The Magnificent Evans (1984) First of the Summer Wine (1988–89) Keeping Up Appearances (1990–95) Ain't Misbehavin' (1994–95) Still Open All Hours (2013–) Young Hyacinth (2016)

Other	The Bass Player and the Blonde (1977) Hawks (1988) The Sharp End (1991) A Foreign Field (1993) The Wanderer (1994)

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