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| | BBC - Comedy Guide - Life With The Lyons |
 | | Life With The Lyons followed immediately and differed from most family sitcoms in that it was peopled by an actual family, with children Richard and Barbara Lyon re-creating their real-life selves, and the stories merely exaggerated, albeit in a humorous fashion, true events. |
 | | In the TV series, as with the radio version, Molly Weir was cast as the Lyons' housekeeper Aggie MacDonald, Doris Rogers was their nosey next-door neighbour Florrie Wainwright, and, in the BBC TV run, Horace Percival appeared as the nebulous Mr Wimple. |
 | | Indeed, such was the degree of accuracy that when, in real life, the Lyons moved home from Marble Arch to Holland Park, the third ITV series also had them in a new home, the studio sets matching reality as closely as possible, right down to colour schemes, decorations and furniture. |
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