Robin’s Nest
Robin's Nest, 1977
The second successful spin off from the hugely popular Man About The House (the other being George and Mildred).
Produced by Thames Television for ITV, the show featured Robin Tripp from ...
Minder At 40
Minder Is 40 Years Old
It was 9pm Monday 29th October 1979 that we first met Terry McCann and Arthur Daley in an episode entitled "Gunfight At The OK Launderette".
Originally intended as a vehicle for Denni...
Victoria Wood – The Screenplays
Victoria Wood - The Screenplays, 1978
Victoria Wood Began her show business career whilst still an undergraduate. She had initially appeared on TV talent show New Faces in 1974. Moving on for the purposes of...
Selwyn
Selwyn, 1978
Bill Maynard returns as Selwyn Froggitt, in this this spin off from the hugely successful Oh No It’s Selwyn Froggitt.
For this series only Bill Maynard remained from the original cast and it wa...
No – That’s Me Over Here!
No – That's Me Over Here! 1967
Ronnie Corbett was one of Britain's best loved comics, probably best remembered as one half of The Two Ronnies. However Corbett appeared in a number of his own sitcoms.
We go...
Billy Liar
Billy Liar - 1973
Adapted from a 1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse, Billy Liar has also been adapted into a film, a musical and a stage play. However it is the TV series we are concerned with that ran for two se...
The Dustbinmen
The Dustbinmen, 1969
The Dustbinmen was a spin off from a one off TV movie "There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah" (1968) written by Jack Rosenthal and directed by Michael Apted.
This TV sitcom ran for th...
If There Weren’t Any Blacks….
....You'd Have To Invent Them
A one off made for television play from the pen of Johnny Speight. Made by London Weekend Television for ITV and originally screened in Black and White in 1968.
This dark, but...
The One That Started It All – An Audience With Jasper Carrott
An Audience With Jasper Carrott - 1978
"An Audience With..." is now one of the most widely recognised formats on British TV, these days it's singers and groups of the moment, but in the early days it was comed...
The Squirrels
The Sqirrels, 1974
Running for three series totalling twenty eight episodes (including the 1974 pilot) 'The Squirrels' was one of legendary script writer Eric Chappell's earliest sitcoms. As the series progre...