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Further Adventures of Lucky Jim or The New Adventures of Lucky Jim is a comedy television series which first aired on BBC 1 in 1967. Inspired by the novel Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, it updates the story from the early 1950s of the novel to mid-1960s Swinging London. It stars Keith Barron as the young university lecturer Jim Dixon.
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The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim: Created by Kingsley Amis. With Keith Barron, Colin Jeavons, Suzy Kendall, Nerys Hughes.
- Comedy, Drama
- 30
- 1967-05-02
- Keith Barron, Colin Jeavons, Suzy Kendall
The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim (a.k.a. The New Adventures of Lucky Jim) is a British television sitcom which first aired on BBC 2 in 1982. It is inspired by the 1954 novel Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, updated to the Swinging Sixties.
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Jim Dixon is a lecturer in medieval history at a red brick university in the English Midlands. He has made an unsure start and, towards the end of the academic year, is concerned about losing his probationary position in the department. In his attempt to be awarded a permanent post he tries to maintain a good relationship with his absent-minded hea...
When originally published, Lucky Jim received enthusiastic reviews. In the New Statesman, Walter Allenwrote, "Mr Amis has an unwaveringly merciless eye for the bogus: some aspects of provincial culture – the madrigals and recorders of Professor Welch, for instance – are pinned down as accurately as they have ever been; and he has, too, an eye for c...
In the 1957 British film adaptation, Jim Dixon was played by Ian Carmichael. Keith Barron starred in Further Adventures of Lucky Jim, a 1967 seven-episode BBC TV series based on the character and set in the "swinging London" of 1967. This was followed by The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim in 1982, but with Enn Reitel as Jim. In 2003, ITV aired a r...
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It's 1967, England is swinging and Jim Dixon - erstwhile red brick university student and native of Eckersley, Yorkshire - returns from Holland to become a part of it. He arrives in London determined to seek out the permissive society and attempt to fit into more sophisticated circles.
Based on (and updated from) Kingsley Amis’s 1954 novel Lucky Jim, this series related happenings in the life of Jim Dixon (Keith Barron), a cautious lad from Eckersley, Yorkshire, newly arrived in Swinging London in the permissive 1960s.
