No, Honestly
 No Honestly was a comedy series about a husband and wife
- struggling actor Charles and children's author Clara Danby.
The
couple appeared in front of an audience telling stories about
their first meeting, courtship and life as newlyweds.
Framed by the couple's light banter, each of the episodes
flashbacked chronologically to their often comically confused
courtship and marriage, beginning as they embarked on their
honeymoon and tried to keep their newly married status a secret by
pretending to be a boring, frustrated long-married couple.
The series was based on two books by husband and wife team,
Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham - One called Coronet Among
the Weeds and the other Coronet Among the Grass - and
starred Pauline Collins and John Alderton, who were also married
to each other in real life.
The couple also appeared together in Thomas
and Sarah (a spin-off to the classic period drama Upstairs,
Downstairs) in 1979.
Pauline Collins (best known for her signature role as Shirley
Valentine) played Clara with a mischievous twinkle that made
her leaps of illogic endearing - even if CD thought she dressed
like "the remnant of a disbanded folk group".
The theme song for No Honestly was written and performed
by singer and composer Lynsey De Paul who made it to number 7 in
the British charts with the tune.
A later series starred Liza Goddard and Donal Donnelly in Yes,
Honestly.
EPISODES
The Facts of Life | The Object of the Game | More Royle Than Noble
Really | Finding the Form | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Just
Cause or Impediment | Now We Are Married | Everything in the
Garden | Having Them Back | Plenty of Shoulder Not Much
Wheel | Bed, Beautiful Bed | Only Make Believe | Surprise,
Surprise!
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