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Edwin Apps, actor and writer who co-scripted the popular 1960s sitcom All Gas and Gaiters – obituary
The clerical comedy elicited letters from bishops asking: ‘How did you know that? It is exactly what happened to me yesterday’
7 May 2021 • 8:22pm
Edwin Apps at his wedding with Pauline Devaney, his wife and co-writer of All Gas and Gaiters
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Edwin Apps, who has died aged 89, was an actor whose main claim to fame was as one half of the writing partnership – with his wife and fellow actor Pauline Devaney – behind All Gas and Gaiters (1966-1972), the BBC sitcom set in a cathedral close and featuring a laughably inept quartet of Anglican clerics.