High Hopes
TV Show| Title | High Hopes |
| User score | 0 |
| Release date | Oct 2, 2002 |
| Release date of last episode | Dec 16, 2008 |
| Genre | Comedy, Crime |
| Director | Boyd Clack |
| Production country | GB |
| Series status | Ended |
| Seasons count | 6 (List of episodes) |
| Episodes count | 35 |
| Run time | 30 min. |
High Hopes is a sitcom made in Wales, produced and directed by Gareth Gwenlan for BBC Wales and is set in a fictional area of the South Wales Valleys called Cwm-Pen-Ôl. It stars Margaret John as widow Elsie Hepplewhite, Robert Blythe as her son Richard Hepplewhite, Steven Meo as Hoffman and Oliver Wood as Charlie. It revolves around Elsie's son Richard and his dodgy business ventures, assisted by the two boys, who attempted to rob the Hepplewhites' house in the first episode. The pilot was shown on BBC all over the UK in 1999, with slight differences to future cast and plot. The series started in 2002. The sixth and final series, consisting of six episodes, was first shown on BBC1 Wales weekly from Tuesday 11 November 2008. But, before it aired a report in the South Wales Echo, titled 'Welsh sitcom set to be axed', confirmed that: A three part 'Best Bits' special was shown on BBC1 Wales, starting 20 September, the third episode was on Sun 4 October 2009.
Latest episodes
List of episodesS6.E6 ∙ Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Dec 16, 2008
S6.E5 ∙ Internal Affairs
Dec 9, 2008
S6.E4 ∙ A Passage to India
Dec 2, 2008
S6.E3 ∙ Nine to Five
Nov 25, 2008
S6.E2 ∙ I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Nov 18, 2008
S6.E1 ∙ The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Nov 11, 2008
S5.E5 ∙ The Fly
Apr 4, 2007
S5.E4 ∙ The Outsider
Mar 28, 2007
S5.E3 ∙ Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Mar 21, 2007
S5.E2 ∙ Dead Man Walking
Mar 14, 2007
S5.E1 ∙ The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Mar 1, 2007
S4.E6 ∙ Uncle Tom
Dec 21, 2005
S4.E5 ∙ Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Dec 14, 2005
S4.E4 ∙ A Touch of Class
Dec 7, 2005
S4.E3 ∙ As You Like It
Nov 30, 2005
S4.E2 ∙ Every Picture Tells a Story
Nov 23, 2005
S4.E1 ∙ Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Nov 16, 2005
S3.E6 ∙ Of Mice and Men
Nov 24, 2004
S3.E5 ∙ The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone
Dec 8, 2004
S3.E4 ∙ The Accused
Dec 1, 2004
