All posts tagged 1980′s ITV Comedy

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Remembering London Weekend Television – Part 4

Me And My Girl, 1984 There is so much comedy doing the rounds on various channels these days, but it never ceases to amaze me just how many have fallen into obscurity.  Me and My Girl is one such example.  …

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Remembering London Weekend Television – Part 3

Agony, 1979 - 1981

Agony was the ITV sitcom that ran for 31 episodes (3 Series) between 1979 and 1981.  It was voted in that now famous poll to

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Saturday Night Classics – Early Madhouse Antics with Russ Abbott

Russ Abbott's Saturday Madhouse 1981 - 1982, Russ Abbott's Madhouse  - 1984

This may fool you, many people think of Madhouse as the primetime BBC show of the 1980’s,

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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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Never The Twain

Never The Twain - 1981

A genuine side splitter and one of my favourite TV sitcoms.  Made by Thames Television for ITV Never The Twain ran up 67 episodes

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Hallelujah

Hallelujah was a Yorkshire Television production for ITV that starred the great Thora Hird.  It was set in a Salvation Army citadel in fictional Yorkshire towns of Brigthorpe

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A.J. Wentworth B.A.

We reach the end of our Arthur Lowe week, looking at his later and perhaps less well remembered work. Along with Potter, A.J. Wentworth, B.A. was to be Arthur

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Bless Me Father 1978 – 1981

Made by London Weekend Television for ITV Bless Me Father ran for 3 series totalling 21 episodes, between 1978 and 1981.  The series is set in 1950’s and

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Home To Roost – 1985

Think John Thaw and you'll almost certainly think of The Sweeney or Inspector Morse and you'd be right.  However in 1985 he starred in this ITV sitcom and

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Only When I Laugh

The hit Sitcom made for ITV by Yorkshire Television, set in an NHS Hospital Men's Surgical Ward.  It ran for 29 episodes over 4 series. Summary The plot revolves around

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