All posts tagged BBC classic comedy

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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 …

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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 series

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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 in

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The 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

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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

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All 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

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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. 

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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

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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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Butterflies, 1978

From the pen of Carla Lane (Liver Birds and Bread) came this clever sitcom about a frustrated housewife and her family.  Despite it's popularity it was broadcast on

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