BAFTA award-winning Harry H. Corbett (Steptoe & Son) is Hemel Pike, self-styled ‘Casanova of the Canals’: a womanising barge-worker making a living traversing the waterways of England, sure to have a woman waiting for him at every lock along the route. Dead set against marriage, he goes about his freewheeling ways with cousin Ronnie (Ronnie Barker, Porridge) until he comes across Christine, the one girl who plans to get Hemel away from the waterways and down the aisle. While Ronnie distracts her cantankerous father Joe (Academy Award winner Hugh Griffith, Ben Hur) down the pub with a drinking contest, Hemel has an illicit liaison with Christine. However his carefree days look set to be over when Christine discovers she’s pregnant, as does her father, who isn’t about to let the culprit get away without a vow or two - at the end of a shotgun if necessary. Rigging an explosive charge to the lock gates, Joe threatens to blockade the waterway until the bounder responsible confesses. Courtesy of one of Britain’s most famous comedy script teams, Galton and Simpson, writers of Steptoe & Son and Hancock, The Bargee perfectly encapsulates the beautiful settings, feel and romance of “Old” England

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