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 ...
The Two Of Us
The Two Of Us, 1986
The Two Of Us is an often forgotten little gem from ITV starring Nicholas Lyndurst.
Thirty two episodes screened over four series, usually going out on a Saturday night.
There are som...
It’s Not The Sweeney………
Home To Roost, 1985
Think John Thaw and you'll almost certainly think of The Sweeney or Inspector Morse and you'd be right.
However in 1985 he starred in this ITV sitcom and it was rather funny. So much so...
Only When I Laugh, 1979
The hit Sitcom made for ITV by Yorkshire Television, set in an NHS Hospital Men's Surgical Ward. It ran for twenty nine episodes over four series.
Summary
The show revolves around the antics of three mal...
Cooper’s Half Hour – 1980
Cooper's Half Hour - 1980
With his trademark Fez and tricks that always seem to go wrong Tommy Cooper was one of the most popular and recognisable comedians in the world. Unfortunately by 1980 drink had got t...
Forgotten Saturday Night Vintage From Syd and Eddie
The Little and Large Show, 1977
Well perhaps not a classic in everybody’s mind, but Little and Large were a huge hit with TV audiences during their 14 year run.
The comedy double act comprising straight man...