Harry Worth’s Final Sitcom, How’s Your Father?
How's Your Father? 1979
How's Your Father? is another little gem from the much missed Harry Worth. How's Your Father? was a Yorkshire Television production. Created by the same team who brought us two other ...
High Hopes Dashed For This Actor…..
Grundy, 1980
Grundy was to have been the vehicle to finally show that Harry H. Corbett had put Steptoe behind him. In an interview with 'The News Of The World' prior to its screening, Corbett said: "I hope to...
The Morecambe And Wise Show
The Morecambe And Wise Show
1968 - 1977 (BBC)
1978 - 1983 (Thames)
After contract negotiations with ATV failed and following Eric Morecambe’s desire to appear in colour for their next series it was off to...
Robin’s Nest
Robin's Nest, 1977
The second successful spin off from the hugely popular Man About The House (the other being George and Mildred).
Produced by Thames Television for ITV, the show featured Robin Tripp from ...
You Can’t Keep A Good Idea Down: Copy Cats
Copy Cats, 1985
Impressions on TV were nothing new and still aren't to this day. However they do make for some great entertainment.
Back in the early 1970's ITV had success with a quickfire sketch show fea...
Alfresco
Alfresco - 1983
Some well known names from the world of comedy assemble for this forgotten ITV sketch show.
Conceived as an answer to the BBC's hugely successful Not The Nine O' Clock News, Alfresco ran for...
There’s Nothing to Worry About !
There's Nothing to Worry About ! 1982
There's Nothing to Worry About ! A three part series shown only in the ITV Granada region. This three part series in fact turned out to be a pilot series for the show th...
Our Last Christmas Offering
Spitting Image At Christmas
Still the best satire ever made in this writer's opinion. Spitting Image ran for 18 series between 1984 and 1996, but today we focus on the christmas offerings.
Although some De...
Morecambe and Wise Christmas Legends?
Morecambe and Wise - The Christmas Specials, 1969 - 1983
The Morecambe and Wise annual Christmas shows became a national iinstitution, as much a part of Christmas as turkey.
With the exception of 1974, ther...