Sykes And A….
Sykes And A....
The BBC sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques that aired for sixty episodes (59 and 1 short) over nine series on BBC1 from 1960 to 1965.
Sykes And A was ther first time Eric Sykes a...
The Gnomes Of Dulwich – 1969
There's not much in the way of pictures and no video in existence for this little gem, but we thought you'd find it interesting anyway. It's always good to find something you've never come across before.
Th...
Hancock’s Half Hour, TV Show, 1956
Happy Birthday Tony !
It was 60 years this very day: that Tony Hancock arrived on our TV screens from radio with his hugely successful sitcom: Hancock's Half Hour. Between the radio series of the same name an...
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...
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...