Porridge Christmas Special, 1976

1970's BBC Comedy
Porridge Christmas Special - The Desperate Hours - 1976 Continuing our look back at classic Christmas Specials from years gone by, here's Fletch and Godbher in it up to their necks as usual in this festive edi...

Steptoe And Son – Christmas 1973

1970's BBC Comedy
Steptoe And Son - The Party - Christmas Special - 1973 The Party was the first of only two Christmas Specials in Steptoe's long history, was followed in 1974 by the final series, with a 1974 Christmas special ...
Eric and ernie don santa suits to promote their christmas specials

A Very Morecambe And Wise Christmas

1970's BBC Comedy
Morecambe And Wise Christmas Special - 1971 It was Boxing Day 1983 that Morecambe and Wise walked off into the sunset for the last time, today we go back 49 years to 1971.If we're still laughing almost 50 ...

Dad’s Army In Lockdown?

1970's BBC Comedy
Dad's Army, Man Of Action, 1974 As the country comes out of lockdown 2 into strict tiers it reminded us here of an episode of Dad's Army.Man Of Action was the second episode in series seven of the clasic s...

It’s The One With The Hippo !

1970's BBC Comedy
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, 1976 The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin was originally a series of novels written by and  developed into a sitcom by their author David Nobbs.There were three series...