Thora Hird - In Loving Memory Series 2 out 6th July 09

Thora Hird returns for IN LOVING MEMORY THE COMPLETE SECOND SERIES (12), released on 6th July 2009, RRP £. It follows the hugely successful release of the first series earlier this year. Oldshaw, 1929; when you could enjoy a night out at the Theatre Royal, a pint in the interval, a hot pie on the way home - and still have change from a shilling. You could also have an argument with a brewers dray and end up as a client of Jeremiah Unsworth and Co., Undertakers and Monumental Masons... and be given one of the most disastrous funerals in the long and noble history of undertaking. Thora Hird (Talking Heads, Last of the Summer Wine) brings her inimitable humour to the role of Ivy Unsworth in this much-loved comedy series set in a fictional Lancashire mill town. As the widow of funeral director Jeremiah, Ivy has been left to run Unsworth and Co. along with her accident-prone nephew, Billy (Christopher Beeny Upstairs Downstairs) - a scenario based on that of a pilot episode which had already proven a ratings hit more than ten years previously. IN LOVING MEMORY was a huge commercial success for Yorkshire Television and ran for five series between 1979 and 1986; this complete second series was originally screened in 1980.