Acknowledgements

Introduction: Opening Sequence
1.1 Understanding Later Life
1.2 Understanding Later Life Sexuality
1.3 Later Life Sexuality on Screen
1.4 Materials and Aims

Chapter 1: Conventionally Unconventional: The Sitcom
2.1 Ordinariness and Domesticity
2.2 Humour and Laughter
2.3 Seriality

Chapter 2: In The Back Of A Mini: Waiting For God And Later Life Sexualities
3.1 Wouldn't Look Good in the Papers: Sexuality in Waiting for God
3.1.1 The Top-Dude: Basil Makepeace
3.1.2 A Middle-Class Dugout: Diana Trent
3.2 Mostly Talk, Some Action: Conclusion

Chapter 3: Pretty Fly For Two Old Guys: Homosociality And Later Life (Male) Sexualities
4.1 Good, Clean, Dirty Fun: Sexuality in The Old Guys
4.2 I May Swing a Bit: Queered Sexualities in The Old Guys
4.3 90% Straight: Homosociality and The Old Guys
4.4 A Sexy Blitz: Sally as the Idealised Woman
4.4 All Talk, Little Action: Conclusion

Chapter 4: Walking Into Elton John's Closet: Vicious And Queer Sexualities
5.1 Let's Get This Straight: Queering Later Life
5.2 Broad Tastes and Over 40: Framing Violet Crosby
5.3 It's Like Living in Disneyland: Framing Freddie Thornhill and Stuart Bixby as Respectably Queer
5.3.1 Queer Spaces: The Sitcom
5.3.2 Keeping it Respectably Queer
5.4 Some Talk, Even Less Action: Sexualities in Vicious

Chapter 5: Closing Sequence
6.1 Domesticity and Later Life Sexuality
6.2 Laughter, Comedy, and Later Life Sexuality
6.3 Seriality and Later Life Sexuality
6.4 End Credits

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