Stanley Baxter On TV
The Stanley Baxter Show 1963
The Stanley Baxter Picture Show 1972
These lavish productions are almost forgotten these days, so we thought we'd dig out two of Baxter's popular shows and remind people that come...
Leave It To Charlie
Leave It To Charlie, 1978
Proving he was more than just Clegg, Peter Sallis starred in Leave It To Charlie an ITV sitcom that ran for twenty six episodes over four series between 1978 and 1980.'Leave It To...
Bill Maynard’s Having The Life Of Riley
The Life Of Riley, 1975
A short lived sitcom starring Bill Maynard, that ran for just one series of seven episodes.There is quite a tangled back story to this sitcom. It started life as an un-broadcast pi...
The Lovers
The Lovers, 1970
Frightening that this popular sitcom is fifty years old. Just sit and take that in, FIFTY, now that's classic comedy!Running for thirteen episodes over two series between 1970 and 1971, T...
Thirty Minutes Worth
Thirty Minutes Worth, 1972
Harry Worth remains an underestimated comic with much of his work never making the repeat schedules of the many digital TV channels we have these days.Thirty Minutes Worth initia...
Rising Damp
The Course Of True Love Never Runs Smooth In Rising Damp
Without doubt ITV's finest sitcom and definitely worthy of it's classic status.Rising Damp ran for twenty eight episodes over four series between 19...
Bootsie And Snudge
Bootsie And Snudge, 1960 and 1974
Bootsie and Snudge was the spin off comedy series of The Army Game, written, in the early days, by Barry Took and Marty Feldman, later writers were: John Antrobus, Jack Rosent...
Bowler
Bowler, 1973
Another ITV sitcom sitting in the back of people's memories. Bowler was the thirteen part TV comedy series, that was a spin off from a spin off. In plain English Bowler was a spin off from The F...
The Fenn Street Gang
The Fenn Street Gang - 1971
From the creators of The Good Life came this spin off from the popular Please Sir. The program ran for three series totaling forty seven episodes over two years.Although many o...
Love Thy Neighbour
Love Thy Neighbour, 1972
Enjoy these sitcoms for what they are before they disappear forever, in the light of recent events
You'd never get away with comedy like this today, but it was then and is now a piece...