'Rising Damp' creator Eric Chappell says the show "appears to have been written by someone else, from another world" when he looks back on it now. The hugely popular ITV sitcom ran for four series ...

TV classic Rising Damp is the latest sitcom to be resurrected on stage, following the likes of Yes, Prime Minister and Steptoe & Son. Actor Don Warrington and writer Eric Chappell discuss reviving the ...

Mr Chappell, from Grantham, Lincolnshire, began his writing career with a play called The Banana Box, which debuted at the Hampstead Theatre Club in 1970 before making its way to the West End in 1973.

Tributes paid to ‘one of the all-time greats’, who also wrote Only When I Laugh and Duty Free Eric Chappell, the writer of some of ITV’s most popular sitcoms, including Rising Damp, Only When I Laugh ...

There are two sitcoms from the 1970s that don't feel dated today. Fawlty Towers still zips along, its pace largely down to its then-innovative fast cutting style. Rising Damp is similarly snappy – but ...

Rising damp is a critical deterioration process in both historic and modern masonry structures, driven primarily by the capillary uptake of groundwater through porous building materials. This ...

Rising Damp starred Frances de la Tour, Leonard Rossiter and Don Warrington TV classic Rising Damp is the latest sitcom to be resurrected on stage, following the likes of Yes, Prime Minister and ...