Saturday Nights Jasper Carrott Style
Carrott Confidential - 1987 - 1989
Birmingham's greatest comic export kept the nation laughing with a variety of shows predominantly on a Saturday Night. We take a look at Carrott Confidential, that was compu...
Telephone Problems For Alf
From: In Sickness And In Health, Series 3, 1987
Continuing our telephone theme.In Sickness and In Health marked a change in attitudes at the time and perhaps lacked the bite of Till Death Us Do Part, parti...
Sunday Lunch – Alf Style
In Sickness And In Health, Series 2, Episode 4
As it's Sunday we thought let's find something traditional for a Sunday other than Church that's had the comedy treatment.Vividly remembering watch Alf Garnet...
The Laughter Show
The Laughter Show, 1984
The Laughter Show was a BBC comedy sketch show featuring Les Dennis and the late Dustin Gee.Hugely popular in it's day, this Saturday night show ran for three series between 1984 an...
The British Are Coming…
'Allo, 'Allo! - The Pilot Episode, 1982
Two years before the long running sitcom began there was a pilot episode screened in 1982.The series that followed was almost exactly a carry on with just a couple o...
Obscure BBC Sitcom From Carla Lane
I Woke Up One Morning, 1985
This gets categorised as both Drama and Sitcom depending on where you look.Despite this it was written by Carla Lane and ran for 2 series of six episodes each in 1985 and 1986.
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Treasure Hunting With Seymour And Friends
Last Of The Summer Wine, Treasure Of The Deep, 1988
Last one from 1988 for now. We go back to 1988 series 10 and the second episode, Treasure Of The Deep.It seemed like the show was riding the ultimate hi...
Bread
Bread, 1986
In tribute to Jean Boht who sadly passed away on the 12th SeptemberBroadcast over seven series totalling seventy four episodes, Bread was the must see sitcom of it's day. The series focused on ...
Clarence
Clarence, 1988
We seem to have found ourselves in 1988 so we thought we'd see what else made it's first appearance. Thirty Five years ago Ronnie Barker made his final sitcom appearance with this forgotten gem...
Kathy Staff In: No Frills
No Frills - 1988
Another forgotten sitcom with a Last Of The Summer Wine connection and also 35 years old.No Frills was intended as a vehicle for Kathy Staff and ran for just the one series of seven episo...