Candid Camera
Smile You're On Candid Camera
Judging by the response we get to this post Candid Camera is as popular now as it was when it last appeared on our TV screens over 40 years ago.
Candid Camera was adapted from ...
Come The Man, Come The Hour
Dad's Army, 1968
Happy Birthday Dad's Army ! 50 Today
It was fifty years ago today that one of television's most popular sitcoms first arrived on our TV screens.
Fifty years on and it's still entertainin...
Hospital Antics With Figgis And Friends……
Only When I Laugh, 1979
Only When I Laugh was the hit Sitcom made for ITV by Yorkshire Television,
Set in an NHS Hospital Men's Surgical Ward, the series ran for twenty nine episodes over four series.
S...
Department Store Antics At Grace Brothers
Are You being Served? 1972
Are You Being Served, started life as an episode in the long running BBC Comedy Playhouse series.
Set in the men's and women's departments of the fictional Grace Brothers Departm...
Here They Come It’s……..
The Goodies, 1970
The Goodies had met as undergraduates at Cambridge University. Up until 1973 they were also regulars on the long running BbC Radio series I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again.
The Goodies serie...
Terry And June Make Their TV Debut
Happy Ever After - 1974
This is one of those sitcoms that needs dusting down and re-showing if only out of pure nostalgia. Happy Ever After was the forerunner to Terry and June. It ran for five series totali...
Could This Be ITV’s Best Sitcom?
On The Buses, 1969
On The Buses was a hugely successful sitcom that was initially rejected by the BBC, who did not see any great comedy potential in the idea, despite the writers having had previous success fo...
Blakey’s Off To Retire In Spain…….
Don't Drink The Water, 1974
Not many people remember this On The Buses spin-off. Don't drink The Water ran for thirteen episodes over two series.
Regrettably the series failed to capture the success of On ...
Monty Python’s Life Of Brian
Monty Python's Life Of Brian - 1979
Perhaps the best remembered and best loved of the Python movies. Life Of Brian was hugely controversial, but hysterically funny.
The film does contain themes of religiou...
Larry Grayson Shut The Door And Then….
The Larry Grayson Show, 1975
With all the recent activity around The Generation Game you might have noticed that most of the comparisons were with Bruce Forsyth and Jim Davidson, Larry Grayson seemed to have b...