About Dick Clement
Dick Clement is a retired English writer, director and producer. He became known for his writing partnership with Ian La Frenais for television series including The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Porridge, Lovejoy and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. Clement and La Frenais were both awarded OBEs in the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours list. In this same period, they created their award-winning series Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, followed by Porridge, Thick as Thieves and a spin-off from Porridge, Going Straight. By the beginning of the 1990s, La Frenais had created the long-running series, Lovejoy, and co-created Spender with Jimmy Nail.
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