George And The Dragon – 1966
An early Sid James sitcom that ran for four series between 1966 and 1968. Sid plays George Russell a chauffeur and handyman at the home of Colonel Maynard. It's notable that this one of very few instances tha...
Just A Minute, 1967
The BBC Radio panel game that just keeps running. By 2013 the show had ran for an amazing sixty six series and counting. This post was ran as a tribute to Nicholas Parsons who was 90 at the time of publicatio...
Carry On Cleo – 1964
Carry On Cleo - 1964
We've reached 1964 and the tenth film in the series, Carry On Cleo. This was the one that produced perhaps the most famous line in comedy history when Kenneth Williams utters those immort...
Steptoe And Son: The Radio Series
Steptoe And Son - The Radio Series - 1966 - 1976
There was a time when Radio was the medium of the day, then Television arrived and as we have seen some great radio comedy edged it's way onto our TV screens.
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Please Sir ! 1968
Classic comedy from the London Weekend Television stable. Please Sir! ran for 55 episodes between 1968 and 1972. Newly qualified teacher Bernard Hedges is given the task of taming the most unruly class at Fenn...
Spike Milligan – ‘Q’
Q.... 1969
Spike Milligan's surreal TV comedy sketch show ran for ten series, totaling thirty eight episodes. Each series was identified by a number from 1 - 9, the final series was entitled There's a Lot of ...
The Arthur Haynes Show
Television and the way we view it has changed a lot in 70 years. There was a time when TV was black and white, although you could be forgiven for forgetting.
Too many black and white shows sit in the archiv...
Faces Of Jim,1961
Faces Of Jim, is an umbrella title that relates to three series of individual sitcoms that aired between 1961 and 1963, starring Jimmy Edwards.
The idea which of course followed the Comedy Playhouse idea, wa...
Tony’s Last Half Hour..
Hancock Down Under -1968
After failing to re-spark his career after the break with Galton and Simpson in 1961, Tony Hancock found himself in Australia after being contracted to make a 13-part series, Hancock ...
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 Television and Lond...