Up the Elephant and Round the Castle

📊 Series Specifications

Network ITV1
Episode Runtime ~30 min
Total Seasons 3
Total Episodes 22
Original Language EN
Creator Spike Mullins

Up the Elephant and Round the Castle (1983)

Created by Spike Mullins
⭐ 3.3 / 5 (4 votes) 🎬 3 Seasons 📼 22 Episodes 🏷️ Comedy 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

Young lovable rogue Jim London becomes a man of property when a relative dies, leaving him a run-down Victorian property at 17 Railway Terrace in the Elephant and Castle area of south London. He gets into various problems with the police and spends most of his time getting drunk and chasing women.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 A Cuckoo in the Nest

Jim London is forced to take in a lodger when some unsavoury debt collectors turn up.

E2 May the Best Man Win

When Jim agrees to be best man at his friend's wedding, he doesn't realise his duties will include being stuck in the middle of an argument between two feuding, unhappily married wrestlers.

E3 ...Up the Public Spirit

Jim finds himself in hot water with the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS), thanks to his busybody neighbour Councillor Bertram Allnutt.

E4 Never on a Sunday

Jim has been partying all night and is desperate for sleep, but his attempts are constantly interrupted by a string of unwelcome visitors.

E5 A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in Shepherds Bush

It's Good Neighbour Week and Jim intends to win first prize by looking after Wanda's parrot.

E6 Every Two Minutes

After a night on the tiles, Jim wakes to find himself being burgled by a depressed upper-class man and a woman fast asleep in his bathtub.

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Episodes for this season are available via edge tracking. View Episode 1 →