'Rising Damp' creator Eric Chappell says the show "appears to have been written by someone else, from another world" when he looks back on it now. The hugely popular ITV sitcom ran for four series ...

Mr Chappell, from Grantham, Lincolnshire, began his writing career with a play called The Banana Box, which debuted at the Hampstead Theatre Club in 1970 before making its way to the West End in 1973.

Rising damp is a critical deterioration process in both historic and modern masonry structures, driven primarily by the capillary uptake of groundwater through porous building materials. This ...

Hollywood beauty Kate Beckinsale reveals there’s one star she’ll never mind overshadowing her. And that’s her tragic Rising Damp dad Richard. Kate was just five when he died of a heart attack aged 31.

There are two sitcoms from the 1970s that don't feel dated today. Fawlty Towers still zips along, its pace largely down to its then-innovative fast cutting style. Rising Damp is similarly snappy – but ...

Tributes paid to ‘one of the all-time greats’, who also wrote Only When I Laugh and Duty Free Eric Chappell, the writer of some of ITV’s most popular sitcoms, including Rising Damp, Only When I Laugh ...