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Towards the end of his life, Horne starred in the ABC television series Horne A ' Plenty.

With Barry Took as script editor ( and later producer ), this was an attempt to translate the spirit of Round the Horne to TV, though with different actors supporting Horne: Graham Stark, for example, substituted for Kenneth Williams and Sheila Steafel for Betty Marsden.

The first six-part series ran from 22 June to 27 July 1968, the second ( by which time ABC had become Thames Television ) from 27 November to 1 January 1969.

No recordings survive of either series other than a videotape of the Christmas edition in rehearsal.