Birds of a Feather

Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph appeared in all 129 episodes of the series, while Pauline Quirke was absent only from the 2020 Christmas special, having stepped back from acting to focus on her performing arts academy.

The character Garth Stubbs was played by three different actors over the show's run: Matthew Savage, then Matt Willis, and finally Samuel James, who took over after Willis left due to commitments with the band McBusted.

The BBC-era prison exteriors were filmed at HM Prison Maidstone, while streets in Pinner, North West London, frequently doubled for the show's actual setting of Chigwell, Essex.

For the revived ITV series, production moved between studios: the 2014 series was recorded at The London Studios, while subsequent series shifted to Pinewood Studios, all filmed in front of a live studio audience.

The 2016 Christmas special, which aired on 24 December 2016, was filmed on location in Malta.

In series 7, Darryl and Chris are imprisoned at a fictional prison called HMP Slade, an in-joke reference to the classic sitcom Porridge.

In the revival, Dorien becomes the author of a novel called 'Sixty Shades of Green', a parody of Fifty Shades of Grey, and later faces a plagiarism lawsuit over it.

The opening episode of the 2014 ITV revival attracted almost eight million viewers, making it ITV's highest-rated comedy launch since Barbara in 2000.

An American adaptation called Stand by Your Man was produced by Fox in 1992, starring Rosie O'Donnell and Melissa Gilbert-Brinkman, but it lasted only eight episodes.

In the 2012 UK stage tour adaptation, the role of Travis Stubbs was shared by Charlie Quirke and Louis Dunford, the real-life sons of Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson.