Three Up, Two Down
Three Up, Two Down, 1985
Perhaps one of those less well remembered sitcoms from the 1980's, Three Up, Two Down ran for 25 episodes over four series between 1985 and 1989.
It starred Michael Elphick, who a y...
It Sticks Out Half A Mile
It Sticks Out Half A Mile, 1983
It Sticks Out Half A Mile was the Radio sitcom that ran for 13 episodes between 1983 and 1984. Written By Michael Knowles and Harold Snoad who had previously adapted Dads Army ...
The Grumbleweeds Take A Tumble To TV….
The Grumbleweeds Radio Show, 1984
The Grumbleweeds formed in 1962, turning professional after an appearence on Oppurtunity knocks.
They still enjoy success to this day, although the line up has changed thr...
Just Good Friends
Just Good Friends, 1983
Another John Sullivan classic, his third for the BBC after Citizen Smith and Fools and Horses.
Just Good Friends ran for twenty two episodes, over three series and a 90 min Christmas...
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...
Alf’s Forgotten Trip To The Seaside
Till Death....1981
Till death Us Do Part had been a huge success for the BBC, having started life as part of it's Comedy Playhouse series. As it began to fall out of favour with viewers it was dropped in 1975...
Department Store Antics At Grace Brothers
Are You being Served? 1972
Are You Being Served, started life as an episode in the long running BBC Comedy Playhouse series.
Set in the men's and women's departments of the fictional Grace Brothers Departm...
The Young Ones
The Young Ones - 1982
Perceived by many at the time as the birth of alternative comedy The Young Ones was the cult BBC comedy classic that surprisingly only ran for 12 episodes over 2 series between 1982 and 1...
Here They Come It’s……..
The Goodies, 1970
The Goodies had met as undergraduates at Cambridge University. Up until 1973 they were also regulars on the long running BbC Radio series I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again.
The Goodies serie...
Yes Prime Minister
Yes Prime Minister, 1986
It's been thirty years since this classic sitcom ended and it's as funny now as it was in the day.
Running for five series totalling thirty eight episodes Yes Prime Minister is set ...