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Rising Damp

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Rising Damp	comment	Rising Damp is a Yorkshire Television sitcom written by Eric Chappell, based on his play The Banana Box.It is set in a run-down boarding house owned by Rupert Rigsby (Leonard Rossiter), who lets out rooms to naive medical student Alan (Richard Beckinsale) and spinster Ruth Jones (Frances de la Tour), who Rigsby has fallen for. Tension arises when new tenant Philip (Don Warrington) arrives, a black student. He is a sophisticated, intelligent young man, essentially everything Rigsby wants to be but is not, and also attracts the attention of Miss Jones. Although Rigsby shows some racial prejudice to him, Philip is warily accepted. Hilarity Ensues as Rigsby attempts to raise his social status.The series ran from 1974 to 1978, followed by a film version in 1980, which reused several scripts from the series.It came 27th in Britain's Best Sitcom, the highest of any ITV sitcom.
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Rising Damp / int_27c09b00	type	Camp Straight
Rising Damp / int_27c09b00	comment	Camp Straight: Hilary, the playwright in "Stage Struck".
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Rising Damp / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Rising Damp / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The first series has a fourth tenant, professional wrestler Spooner (played in two episodes by Derek Newark, and mentioned frequently in others). He disappears after this and the later series have a succession of temporary tenants in many episodes.
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Rising Damp / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Rising Damp / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: Actually a Bottle Series. Every episode takes place entirely inside Rigsby's house, except the third episode of series 1 and the fourth episode of series 4.
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Rising Damp / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
Rising Damp / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: Only four series and 28 episodes, plus The Film of the Series.
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Rising Damp / int_6eef5fc6	type	Temporary Substitute
Rising Damp / int_6eef5fc6	comment	Temporary Substitute: Brenda for Miss Jones in the second half of series 2.
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Rising Damp / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Rising Damp / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Miss Jones leaves halfway through series 2. She returns for series 3.
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Rising Damp / int_82b4f38e	type	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist
Rising Damp / int_82b4f38e	comment	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Rigsby, of the highest order. He is prejudiced about everything and anything, miserly, interfering and has an absurd amount of self-regard. Most of the comedy comes from watching him be humiliated at everything he tries.
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Rising Damp / int_9919369d	type	Con Man
Rising Damp / int_9919369d	comment	Con Man: Seymour in "A Perfect Gentleman".
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Rising Damp / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Rising Damp / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Philip.
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Rising Damp / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Rising Damp / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Rigsby professes to be in love with Miss Jones (although the attraction is mostly sexual). She rejects him because he is still married to his estranged wife and prefers Philip, who does not reciprocate. When Rigsby gets a divorce in the final episode, Miss Jones agrees to marry him, though this seems to be only as she gets no other male attention. She doesn't go through with the wedding.
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Rising Damp / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Rising Damp / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Alan disappears before the last series, with no explanation given for his absence. It is acknowledged briefly in the second episode, however. Brenda also gets no explanation for her disappearance after Series 2.
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Rising Damp / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
Rising Damp / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Rigsby has nothing positive at all to say about his marriage to his long-estranged wife, Veronica.
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Rising Damp / int_e2cfb212	type	Fake Relationship
Rising Damp / int_e2cfb212	comment	Fake Relationship: Rigsby gets Miss Jones to pretend to be his wife when it turns out he can only receive an inheritance if he is happily married.
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Rising Damp / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Rising Damp / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Rigsby usually is unsympathetic to his tenants' problems, but on one occasion when Alan's girlfriend's father arrives and threatens him, Rigsby defends Alan.
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