All posts tagged BBC classic comedy
Last Of The Summer Wine – the Michael Bates years
Last of The Summer Wine made it’s debut in January 1973 as an episode of the long running Comedy Playhouse series. It was commissioned almost immediately for a full time series with the first series premiering in November 1973. Sadly …
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Monty Python's Flying Circus 1969 - 1974
A television phenomenon that changed the face of British Television comedy forever. First airing on BBC1 in October of 1969 the seriesAre You Being Served ?
Are You Being Served ? 1972 - 1985
Posted this week as part of our tribute to the comedy that came out of BBC's Television Centre, but also inThe Likely Lads 1964 – 1966
A classic of it's time and now often forgotten, alongside regular repeats of it's successor Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads and lack of surviving material. This black-and-white
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 ConcertAll New Yes Prime Minister – Tonight
Tonight on digital channel GOLD the first new episodes of Yes Prime Minister will air, with an updated cast as most of the original are now dead. The press
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.The Goon Show 1951 – 1960
Considered by many as the greatest radio show of all time. A legend within it's own lifetime The Goon Show was a British Radio Comedy Program that ran
Only Fools And Horses – the Buster Merryfield years, 1985 – 1991
Only Fools And Horses had now established itself as one of the BBC’s more popular comedies, the Christmas Special of 1983 marked a significant point in the series.





















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