All Star Comedy Carnival
All Star Comedy Carnival, 1969
ITV's answer to BBC's Christmas Night With The Stars. It ran along similar lines to the BBC offering, but had a much heavier emphasis on the comedy element (although other genre...
Les Dawson Has Something To Say…..
Sez Les, 1969 - 1976
Sez Les was the TV show that firmly established Les Dawson’s reputation, running for over seven years (11 series and 68 episodes) and bringing his humour to a wider viewing public.Sum...
The Strange World Of Gurney Slade
The Strange World Of Gurney Slade, 1960
The Strange World Of Gurney Slade was a joint project between singer/actor Anthony Newley and comedy writers Dick Hills and Sid Green.The six part series first aired...
The Worker
The Worker, 1965
Perhaps the television series for which Charlie Drake will be best remembered and which almost certainly has had influences on other sitcoms.The Worker was produced for ITV by Associated T...
Galton and Simpson Make A Stop Off At ITV
The Galton And Simpson Comedy, 1969
In a 2014 interview writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson told us how in the early days of their career "We wrote a letter to the big comedy writers of the time, Frank Muir an...
Two in Clover
Two in Clover, 1969
Currently showing on Forces TV.Two in clover ran for two series between 1969 and 1970, for thirteen episodes. It was around this time that colour was fast becoming the must have televi...
Bootsie And Snudge
Bootsie And Snudge, 1960 and 1974
Bootsie and Snudge was the spin off comedy series of The Army Game, written, in the early days, by Barry Took and Marty Feldman, later writers were: John Antrobus, Jack Rosent...
Two Of A Kind
Two Of A Kind, 1961
After coming together in the 1940's, Morecambe and Wise made their 1950's television breakthrough with a show called Running Wild. Not well received, they would continue playing live whils...
Our House
Our House - 1960
Here's a sitcom that you definitely won't have seen on satellite/digital TV. Our House is an almost forgotten gem from the pen of early Carry On writer Norman Hudis.The series ran for two...
Goodbye! Again?
Goodbye Again, 1968
Goodbye Again was an ITV series starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.Cook and Moore had enjoyed huge success with their BBC series: Not Only But Also. On the back of this success the B...