Miss Jones And No Rigsby In Sight?
Miss Jones And Son, 1977
Miss Jones and Son came from the ITV stable back when they produced proper Telly. It ran for two series totaling twelve episodes.It was notable for being the first British sitcom ...
Some Mothers Do Ave ‘Em – Christmas 1978
Some Mothers Do Ave 'Em - Learning To fly
Some Mothers ran for three series, two in 1973 and the final series in 1978. In between there were Christmas Specials in 1974 and 1975, both of which can be found in ...
Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads ?
Originally broadcast over two series in 1973 and 1974, This was the colour follow up to the successful 1960's series The Likely Lads.Whatever Happeneed To The Likely Lads was set five years on from the last...
The Cannon and Ball Show, 1979
Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball at their peak were the must see Saturday night TV.Making their first TV appearance in 1972 in the Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club variety show, they went on to have success...
Eric Sykes – The Specials
Eric Sykes - The ITV Specials
One of Britain's best loved comedy genius'. Eric Sykes will be perhaps best remembered for his classic comedies: Sykes And A and Sykes.There were also a number of one offs, i...
In Tribute To Richard Gordon, 1921 – 2017
This Post Is In Tribute To Author: Richard Gordon, Who Died 11th August 2017
Doctor On The Box - 1969 - 1977
Doctor On The Box is the generic title given by Network DVD (who released a box set of the same nam...
70 Years Of British Comedy – 1970’s
70 Years Of British Comedy - 1970's, Part One, BBC
Continuing our look back at some of the comedy highlights of the last 70 years we arrive at the 1970's. The idea behind the posts is to give readers a quick ...
Rising Damp
The Course Of True Love Never Runs Smooth In Rising Damp
We are looked at what an ITV Landmark comedy season might look like. We picked six of our favourite ITV sitcoms andthis was rumber four.Without dou...
The Wackers, 1975
Could This Really Be Seen As A Forerunner To Bread?
'Wackers' a scouse term for mates was also the name of an ill feted TV sitcom (ill feted in that it never really gained much popularity). Despite a who's w...
Power To The People ! It’s Citizen Smith
Citizen Smith, 1977
It all seems so long ago when a budding young writer (John Sullivan) took a job at the BBC to learn about how televsion works. It was after approaching producer, Dennis Main Wilson, that S...