Josephine Tewson

A snobbish housewife is determined to climb the social ladder, in spite of her family's working class connections and the constant chagrin of her long suffering husband. (imdb)

James Shelley, an educated, sardonic, permanently unemployed "professional freelance layabout," has many battles with authority, the tax-man, his landlady, and his girlfriend Fran. (imdb)

Clarence is a myopic delivery man who retires to the countryside, and goes from one mishap to another due to his short-sightedness (imdb)