Editing June Whitfield (section)

=== 1960s to 1980s ===
Whitfield gained her first starring role in the sitcom ''[[Beggar My Neighbour (TV series)|Beggar My Neighbour]]'' (1966),<ref name="Museum" /> playing Rose Garvey. The year after ''Beggar My Neighbour'' finished in 1968, she appeared on ''[[Scott On...]]'' for six years until 1974.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/s/scotton_1299002752.shtml |title=BBC Comedy Guide |publisher=BBC |year=2003 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060524015808/http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/s/scotton_1299002752.shtml |archive-date=24 May 2006}}</ref> This started a working relationship with [[Terry Scott]] that lasted until 1987. During ''Scott On...'' she also appeared in ''The Best Things in Life'', ''[[The Goodies (TV series)|The Goodies]]'', ''[[Dick Emery|The Dick Emery Show]]'', ''[[Bless This House (British TV series)|Bless This House]]'' and ''[[The Pallisers]]''. She appeared in the spin-off film of ''[[Bless This House (film)|Bless This House]]'' (1972), with Scott as her husband, and ''[[Carry On Abroad]]'' (also 1972), followed by an appearance in ''[[Carry On Girls]]'' (1973).<ref name="Museum" />

Whitfield starred alongside Scott in a ''[[Comedy Playhouse]]'' [[British sitcom|sitcom]] [[television pilot|pilot]] called ''[[Happy Ever After (British TV series)|Happy Ever After]]'' (1974). A few months later the first full series was broadcast, with a further four series until 1979. Later that year, they appeared together in the first series of ''[[Terry and June]]''. The two sitcoms were very similar, the only main differences being a change of surname (from Fletcher to Medford), and a different house and family.<ref>{{cite news|title=Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy|first=Mark|last=Lewisohn|publisher=BBC Worldwide Ltd|year=2003}}</ref> Both had Scott and Whitfield as a suburban [[middle-class]] married couple. ''Terry and June'' ran for [[List of Terry and June episodes|65 episodes]] until 1987. Five years later, in 1992, [[Julian Clary]] created ''[[Terry and Julian]]'', a [[Channel 4]] sitcom which spoofed the title of ''Terry and June''; Whitfield made an appearance in one episode.<ref name="ComedyZone">{{cite news|url=http://www.comedy-zone.net/standup/comedian/w/whitfield-june.htm |title=June Whitfield |publisher=Comedy Zone |date=1999–2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717042808/http://comedy-zone.net/standup/comedian/w/whitfield-june.htm |archive-date=17 July 2012 }}</ref> During the eight-year run of ''[[Terry and June]]'', Whitfield also appeared in ''[[It Ain't Half Hot Mum]]'' and ''[[Minder (TV series)|Minder]]''.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, Whitfield appeared in a series of television advertisements, created for [[Birds Eye]] by advertising art director Vernon Howe, and featuring the concluding voice-over line: "it can make a dishonest woman of you!"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/vernon-howe-549038.html |title=Obituary: Vernon Howe |work=The Independent |date=5 December 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305072534/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/vernon-howe-549038.html |archive-date=5 March 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1971, Whitfield and [[Frankie Howerd]] recorded a novelty comic version of the song "[[Je t'aime... moi non plus|Je t'aime]]", previously recorded by [[Jane Birkin]] and [[Serge Gainsbourg]], in which she featured as "Mavis".

She was the subject of ''[[This Is Your Life (British TV series)|This Is Your Life]]'' on two occasions: in April 1976, when she was surprised by [[Eamonn Andrews]] at her home in Wimbledon;{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}} and in March 1995, when [[Michael Aspel]] surprised her at [[BBC Television Centre]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}}

During the 1980s, Whitfield returned to radio comedy. From 1984, she could be heard with [[Roy Hudd]] on the [[satire]] programme ''[[The News Huddlines]]'',<ref name="Museum"/> which finished in 2001. On it she often used impersonations and was known for her impression of the then [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Margaret Thatcher]].<ref name="Museum" /> During the 1980s and 1990s, she made several stage appearances, including in a revival of ''[[An Ideal Husband]]'' and the pantomime ''[[Babes in the Wood]]''.<ref name="Museum" /> In 1985, she sang a duet with [[Ian Charleson]] of the [[Irving Berlin]] song "[[You're Just in Love]]" in ''A Royal Night of One Hundred Stars''.