Turn out the Lights

Turn out the lights was a spin off from Pardon The Expression, itself a spin off from Coronation Street.

Leonard Swindley and Wally Hunt had been fired from their jobs at Dobson and Hawks department store in the last episode of Pardon the expression. Developing an interest in astrology Swindley travelled the country employed as professional speaker on the subject. Wherever they went Swindley and Hunt stumbled across supernatural mysteries and set about exploring them. The series was a mixture of comedy and light drama.

6 hour long episodes were broadcast running from thw 2nd of January to the 6th of February 1967. Though a smaller number of episodes were commisioned the double running time essentially meant this series lasted as long as the first run of Pardon the expression.

It's not clear whether the series didn't do well enough to be recommisioned or whether it ended because the following year its' star Arthur Lowe was occupied in the most important role of his career, playing Captain Mainwaring in the B.B.C.'s Dads' Army.