Joan Reynolds obituary | Television
TelevisionObituaryJoan Reynolds obituaryCo-star with her husband of ITV's first home-grown sitcomJoan Reynolds, who has died aged 85, was the star of Joan and Leslie, the first home-grown sitcom on the newly launched commercial television channel ITV in 1955. It was immensely popular with viewers and helped to revive the sitcom on British television – the BBC had, after the second world war, launched Pinwright's Progress, then dropped it, and had only recently transferred Life With the Lyons from radio to television.
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