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'''''Casanova '73''''' is a British [[sitcom]] broadcast on [[BBC One|BBC1]] in September and October 1973. Written by [[Galton and Simpson|Ray Galton and Alan Simpson]], ''Casanovathe '73''series starred [[Leslie Phillips]] as wealthy womaniser Henry Newhouse (the English translation of "casa nova").<ref name="RT">{{cite book|last=Lewishohn|first=Mark |author-link=Mark Lewisohn|title=Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy|year=2003|publisher=[[BBC Worldwide]]|location=[[London]]|isbn=0-563-48755-0}}</ref>

==Background and plot==

==PlotCast==

''Casanova '73'' was badlypoorly received by the critics.<ref>{{cite web|last=Oliver|first=John|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/467108/index.html|title=Galton, Ray (1930-) and Simpson, Alan (1929-)|work=BFI Screenonline|date= 2003–14|access-date=1 April 2020}}</ref> It[[Stanley wasReynolds]] criticisedin by''[[The Times]]'' wrote that Phillips character "gets caught in the wrong beds in all the right comic places but it still does not seem to work. The script is either too laborious and slow or the jokes are too old and feeble."<ref>{{cite news|last=Reynolds|first=Stanley|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/archive/article/1973-10-30/14/4.html|title=Casanova '73 BBC1|work=The Times|date=30 October 1973|page=14}} {{subscription required}}</ref> [[Mary Whitehouse]], of the [[Mediawatch-UK|National Viewers' and Listeners' Association]], and others forobjected to its risque contents.<ref name="Hello"/> ThisThe complaints led to the programme being moved to a later time slot. The first threetwo episodes aired at 8.00pm on Thursdays and the final fourfive on Mondays at 9.25pm. This decision appears to have been taken close to transmission, as ''Radio Times'', published a week in advance, still had the third episode as due to air pre-watershed, but ''The Times'', published on the day of broadcast, listed the series as already having been moved in the schedule. <ref name="RTTimesMove">{{cite newspaper|title=The Times|year=1973|}}</ref> The quiz show ''[[Mastermind (TV series)|Mastermind]]'' replaced it in the slot, helping it to become a hit.<ref>{{cite web|last=Brooke|first=Michael|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1330672/index.html|title=Mastermind (1972-97, 2003-)|work=BFI Screenonline|date=2003–14|access-date=26 March 2020}}</ref>

|ShortSummary=After believing he has been spotted by a neighbour having a romantic meal with another woman, Henry does what he mistakenly believes he needs to do to ensure her silence.

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1973|9|2724|df=y}}

|ShortSummary=Henry's son is about to be expelled from his boarding school (formerly Henry’sHenry's too) for taking inappropriate photos of his maths mistress.

|ShortSummary=Henry gets a proposition such that he fails to rise to the challenge but findssuspects that Carol has had no such scruples about what she has been offered.

==DVDHome releasesrelease==

*{{cite web|url=http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/casanova_73/episodes/|title=Casanova '73 -– Episode Guide|access-date=8 December 2013|year=2013|publisher=British Comedy Guide}}

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