{"id":58,"date":"2007-03-08T10:32:01","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T10:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/08\/inman-in-memphis\/"},"modified":"2015-03-07T16:19:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T16:19:34","slug":"inman-in-memphis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"John Inman, who died today, an unlikely hit in Memphis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the more curious things I discovered living in Tennessee in the mid-1980s was that one of the most popular entertainment figures in Memphis was the English comedy actor John Inman, who died this morning aged 71.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/JohnInman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4642\" src=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/JohnInman.jpg\" alt=\"JohnInman\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>It was very odd to be\u00a0in Dillard&#8217;s department store in the city of Graceland and to hear\u00a0someone in a mid-South accent call out &#8220;I&#8217;m free!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Inman&#8217;s series &#8220;Are You Being Served?&#8221; was hugely popular in syndication in middle America and he attracted large crowds doing personal appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The show ran on the BBC from 1972 to 1985 and is available in several DVDs, mostly on BBC Warner.<\/p>\n<p>Inman&#8217;s character on the show, Mr. Humphries, became one of TV&#8217;s best-known characters, and in 1976 he was voted funniest man on television by TV Times readers and personality of the year on the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>BBC News has <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/6429425.stm\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a> and DVD <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0068040\/dvd\" target=\"_blank\">details<\/a> are available on imdb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the more curious things I discovered living in Tennessee in the mid-1980s was that one of the most popular entertainment figures in Memphis was the English comedy actor John Inman, who died this morning aged 71. It was very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=58\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4643,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/4643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}