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Susan Belbin

Directing

Biography

Susan Jane Belbin (born 20 October 1948, Inverness, Scotland) is a Scottish retired television director and producer known for her work on British sitcoms including Only Fools and Horses, 'Allo 'Allo!, Hi-de-Hi!, Are You Being Served?, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Bread, One Foot in the Grave and Jonathan Creek. She began her career working with Morecambe and Wise and later collaborated extensively with David Croft. She went on to work closely with David Renwick, producing and directing most of the first five series of One Foot in the Grave. Belbin retired from television in 1997 due to ill health, briefly returning to contribute to the final series of One Foot in the Grave before stepping down permanently.

Known For

Only Fools and Horses
8.1

Only Fools and Horses.... Is a British sitcom created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally transmitted on BBC One from 1981 to 1991, with sixteen sporadic Christmas specials aired until 2003. In working-class Peckham in south-east London, ambitious market trader Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter and his younger half-brother Rodney, explore their highs and lows in life, in particular their attempts to get rich. Initially not an immediate hit and receiving little promotion early on, it later achieved consistently high ratings, and the 1996 episode "Time on Our Hands" (originally billed as the series finale) holds the record for the biggest UK audience for a sitcom episode, attracting 24.3 million viewers. The series bears a significant influence on British culture, contributing several words and phrases to the English language.

Only Fools and Horses

1981Series
Bread
7.0

Bread is a British television sitcom, written by Carla Lane, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC1 from 1 May 1986 to 3 November 1991. The series focused on the devoutly-Catholic and extended Boswell family of Liverpool, in the district of Dingle, led by its matriarch Nellie through a number of ups and downs as they tried to make their way through life in Thatcher's Britain with no visible means of support. The street shown at the start of each programme is Elswick Street. A family called Boswell had also featured in Lane's earlier sitcom The Liver Birds and Lane admitted in interviews that the two families were probably related. Nellie's feckless and estranged husband, Freddie, left her for another woman known as 'Lilo Lill'. Her children Joey, Jack, Adrian, Aveline and Billy continued to live in the family home in Kelsall Street and contributed money to the central family fund, largely through benefit fraud and the sale of stolen goods.

Bread

1986Series