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...
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...
Bless Me Father
Bless Me Father, 1978
Bless Me Father marked something of a departure for Arthur Lowe taking him away from the middle class ‘bank manager’ type roles that he had become associated with and placing him in charg...
The Benny Hill Show
The Benny Hill Show, 1955
One of the longest running comedy shows on British Television The Benny Hill Show ran for forty years from it's early days in the 1950's to 1992. Initially the show aired on BBC1, tr...
Michael Bentine’s Potty Time
Michael Bentine's Potty Time, 1973
Originally the fourth member of the Goons, Michael Bentine popped up on children's television in the early 1970's with this wacky show.
The show was screened on ITV and ra...
Nearest And Dearest
Nearest And Dearest - 1968
Another ITV classic that never makes the repeat radar.
Nearest and Dearest was an ITV sitcom produced by Granada Television, that ran for seven series with a total of forty six ep...