Wife Begins At Forty
Wife Begins At Forty, 1988
A one off TV movie based on a play of the same name that was first performed in 1985.Summary
Wife begins at forty tells the story of George. After eighteen years he believes h...
Emery Presents
Emery Presents, 1982
In 1979, Dick Emery had jumped ship to ITV, a year later in 1980 he returned to the BBC with his popular Dick Emery Show. By 1982 Emery was growing tired of the existing format of his BBC...
The Jewel In The Crown
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The Jewel In The Crown, 1985
The Jewel In The Crown that wasn't quite The Jewel In The Crown. A Pilot episode for a BBC sitcom that...
Last Of The Summer Wine – Enter Foggy
The Brian Wilde Years - Part One, 1976 - 1985
Perhaps the most popular time in the long running sitcom's time was the first tenure of Brian Wilde.After the departure of Michael Bates there was a vacancy fo...
Oh Happy Band
Oh Happy Band - 1980
Oh Happy Band was a six part sitcom written by trusted writing team David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd. In addition to an established writing team the series featured the very last TV appearanc...
Alexei Sayle’s Stuff
Alexei Sayle's Stuff, 1988
Comedian Alexei Sayle gets his own TV show.Alexei Sayle's Stuff ran for a total of eighteen episodes over three series between 1988 to 1991.SummaryAlexei Sayle's Stuff wa...
A Very Peculiar Practice
A Very Peculiar Practice, 1986
Comedy-drama from the BBC . A Very Peculiar Practice ran for two series of seven episodes each in 1986 and 1988.Reputedly, writer Andrew Davies discovered that he owed the B...
Blackadder II
Blackadder II - 1986
In the second series of the highly successful comedy our hero has come down in the world a little. No longer a Prince the main character is now Lord Edmund Blackadder, the great-grandson o...
Red Dwarf
Red Dwarf - 1988What happens when you mix sci-fi with comedy? A TV comedy series that has become cult TV, joining many other well known TV franchises of similar status.Red Dwarf first blasted onto our s...
Birds Of A Feather, The BBC Series
Birds Of A Feather, The BBC Series, 1989
As the 1980's drew to close and a new decade dawned new sitcoms became a little less frequent giving way to a new wave of comedy shows such as Harry Enfield and Vic Ree...