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It Ain’t Half Hot Mum!

It Ain’t Half Hot Mum! – 1974 Running for 56 episodes over 8 series It Ain’t Half Hot Mum was the BBC sitcom centering around the Royal Artillery Concert Party. Set in British India and Burma towards the end of …

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The Goodies !

The Goodies, 1970 - 1982

The Goodies combined surreal sketches with situation comedy and was a TV hit for twelve years.  Running for 74 episodes over nine series, broadcast

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Not Only, But Also

Not Only...But Also - 1964 - 1970

This was a great comedy in it's day and even now stands the test of time, but like so many we cover

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Whoops Baghdad

Whoops Baghdad - 1973

Whoops Baghdad was effectively a harmless re-working of Up Pompeii, screened on the BBC in 1973, it ran for one series only totalling six episodes. 

British comic actor Frankie Howerd

Up Pompeii – The BBC TV Series

So we forgot that 2012 was twenty years since the death of Frankie Howerd's death, so all this week it's all about Frankie Howerd. After a pilot episode in

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The Good Life – 1977 Christmas Special

It's Silly, But It's Fun - The Good Life Christmas Special - 1977

It's amazing to think how much hindsight television writers during the 1970's had.  In 1977 most

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Last Of The Summer Wine – Christmas – 1979

Last Of The Summer Wine - "And A Dewhurst Up A Fir Tree"

The second Last Of The Summer Wine Christmas Special came after the end of series five

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Steptoe And Son – Christmas 1973

Steptoe And Son - The Party - Christmas Special - 1973

The first of only two Christmas Specials in Steptoe's long history.  This extended episode has some classic comic

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Some Mothers Do Ave ‘Em – Christmas 1978

Some Mothers Do Ave 'Em - Learning To fly

Some Mothers ran for three series, two in 1973 and the final series in 1978.  In between there were Christmas

Open All Hours

Open All Hours 1976 – 1985

It's the one with the Nurse and a grasping grocer- Open All Hours

Starting out  as the opening episode of the Seven Of One series in 1973, Open All

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