unseen characters

[Caribeing]

On TV we have a lot of unseen characters who are always mentioned, Maris, NIles wife in
Frasier, Mrs Columbo, Her Indoors from
Minder, She who must be obeyed from Rumpole Who else is there?

[eddiebun]

There's a Wiki article on this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unseen_characters

[Joe Shmoe]

Meena, Navids wife in the sitcom Still Game .
Mr Swainey's mother In One foot in the grave
Len Mangle Mrs Mangle's husband in Neighbours.:-D

[Whickerman]

Mrs Slocombe's Pussy!

[Caribeing]

whickerman
very witty
best response so far

[Postdog]

Mrs Columbo was seen - not with hubby, but she had a series of her own starring Kate Mulgrew (Captain Janeway, Voyager)

[reinganum]

Elizabeth Mainwaring in Dad's Army was, sort of, seen, once. In the episode A soldier's farewell in the fifth series, she is seen as an ominous bulge in the bunk bed in the Mainwaring's air-raid shelter. (She slept in the top bunk.) The conclusion must be that she was a woman of, shall we say, generous proportions.

In the U.S. series Home Improvements Wilson, the next-door neighbour, is never completely seen; his face is always partly or wholly obscured. Normally he had only a few lines in each episode, and all you saw was the top of his head, but in one episode he took a more prominent part; he had been invited to give a speech to the local school, where all sorts of devices (other persons on the platform, the lectern, lights, etc.) were used to prevent a full view of his face.