Up The Convicts

Up The Convicts, 1976 Another Australian spin off.  This time Frankie Howerd stars in a spin off from his British success Up  Pompeii.  Not much is known about this series, but we've put together what we can f...
chris tarrent, sally james and bob carolges present tiswas

TISWAS

Today Is Saturday Watch And Smile - Tiswas 1974 It's 40 years ago since this hugely popular Cult Saturday morning children's TV series was last on our screens.Tiswas originally ran for a mammoth 302 shows ...
one of the the most popular sitcoms of the 1970's and still popular today The Good Life

Platinum Jubilee Comedy – 1970’s

Platinum Jubilee Comedy - 1970's, Part One, BBC Marking Her Majesty's 70 years on the throne we're looking back through some of the comedy highlights of the last 70 years .Today it's the 1970's.  Whilst it...

If There Weren’t Any Blacks….

....You'd Have To Invent Them A controversial title like this could only come from one writer.If there weren't any blacks you'd have to invent them was a one off, comedy drama, a made for television play f...

Going Straight – 1978

Fletch Is Out Of Prison And Going Straight Direct spin-off from Porridge and sadly often forgotten, Going Straight ran for only six episodes in 1978.Although not as well received as Porridge the show did w...

Porridge Christmas Special

Porridge - No Way Out - 1975 During the 1970's festive editions of popular sitcoms were very popular, with both BBC and ITV running festive editions of their most popular sitcoms. Porridge was no exception. ...
clive dunn stars in the itv sitcom my old man

My Old Man

My Old Man, 1975 Many people think of Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones in Dad's Army.  Despite his success with that role it wasn't his only success as this little gem proves.Anybody who knows their comedy wil...