A once much-loved British comedy sketch has acclaimed cult status on the continent whilst fading into obscurity in its home nation. This is the story of Freddie Frinton and Dinner For One.

Freddie Frinton as elderly butler, James (picture: NDR) Dinner for One was produced by German television station Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) in 1963 but used an English setting, script and cast.

It featured such a heavy consumption of alcohol that it was banned in Sweden and star Freddie Frinton hated Germans so much he refused to speak the language on screen. British comedy sketch Dinner ...

“Dinner for One” first debuted on the British stage in the 1930s, and Frinton and Warden started performing their version as a duo in 1945. The German entertainer Peter Frankenfeld saw it in ...

A short, slapstick comedy called "Dinner for One: has almost inexplicably is a staple of German television on New Year's Eve.

Every New Year’s Eve, millions of television viewers gather round to watch a British comedy classic. Dinner for One, starring Freddie Frinton, is so beloved that it holds the Guinness World ...

Dinner for One is shown every New Year's Eve in Germany – and it's nothing short of an institution. The Local spoke to the son of Freddie Frinton, who plays James in the sketch, to find out what ...

NELSON: The two characters, played here by the late British comedians Freddie Frinton and May Warden, are at a 90th birthday dinner Miss Sophie throws for herself and four of her former beaus.

Millions of people watch the sketch — first recorded in 1963 by British actors Freddie Frinton and May Warden — every year, and they love it.

Freddie Frinton Biography Frinton was born in Hainton Avenue, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, the illegitimate child of a seamstress, Florence Elisabeth Coo, and was brought up by foster parents.

When is a British comedy legend not a British comedy legend? The answer, as far as the case of Freddie Frinton is concerned, is when you are British and a comic legend in most places except Britain.