PENELOPE KEITH: FROM MARGO TO THE MANOR BORN

8.40pm, Channel 5

With her glamorous 1970s outfits and haughty put-downs, The Good Life’s snobby Margo Leadbetter remains one of the best-loved sitcom characters in British TV history. So much so that actor Dame Penelope Keith struggled to break free from Margo’s shadow. Margo was her first big TV role, after she had been spotted by BBC executives in a TV advert for cigarettes. She later also starred as posh Audrey fforbes-hamilton in To the Manor Born in 1979. This nostalgic documentary is packed with Dame Penelope’s best TV moments, including her 1977 appearance on The Morecambe and Wise Show – she got Eric’s name wrong and slapped him around the face – while Felicity Kendal reveals how her Good Life co-star is very different from Margo…