bill Maynard stars as the well meaning but disaster prone Welwyn frogitt

The Best Hole Digger In Yorkshire

1970's ITV Comedy
Oh No It's Selwyn Frogit, Pilot Episode, 1974 Screened two years prior to a full series.  The pilot for Oh No It's Selwyn Frogitt was screened as part of a six week season of of Yorkshire Television Specials. ...

All Good things Must Come To An End

1970's ITV Comedy
Rising Damp, Come On In, The Water's Lovely, 1978 All good things come to an end and Rising Damp was no exception.It's a mark of a good sitcom that it still holds up as funny 45 years after it ended.Co...

The Ghosts Of Motley Hall

1970's ITV Comedy, Kids TV
The Ghosts Of Motley Hall, 1976 BBC had Rentaghost, so in the days when there were only three channels there had to be a ghost series on ITV.Largely forgotten about in these days of repeating classic old s...

First There Were Three Then…..

1970's, 1970's ITV Comedy
And Mother Makes Five, 1974 Just a year after the original had ended we had the follow up series to And Mother Makes Three.And Mother Makes Five picked up where the original left off, again broadcast on IT...

Harry’s Back On The Box!

1970's ITV Comedy
My Name Is Harry Worth, 1974 My name is Harry Worth was an ITV sitcom from the popular comic Harry Worth.It's notable in that with the exception of his final sitcom (Oh Happy Band) it only ran for 1 series...
Kenny Everett stars in his popular ITV series The Kenny Everett Video show

The Kenny Everett Video Show

1970's ITV Comedy
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The Kenny Everett Video Show, 1978 Ground-breaking in it's day, The Kenny Everett Video Show was made by Thames TV and broadcast on ITV for four series between 1978 - 1981.  In all 32 episodes were made, inclu...

It’s Back To School

1970's ITV Comedy
It's back to School , so what else could we post! Please Sir, Ag Row Rumber, 1970 Going back to 1970 and it's series three of the popular sitcom, episode one.It was series three that would end in black an...
david niven stars in this 1970's tv adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic tale

Life’s Not Easy When You’re A Ghost

1970's ITV Comedy
The Canterville Ghost, 1974 The Canterville Ghost was originally a novella by Oscar Wilde.  It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in two parts in The Court and Society Review, 23rd Feb...