The Lenny Henry Show
The Lenny Henry Show, 1984 - A Show With Many Incarnations
The Lenny Henry Show started life in 1984, by the end of it's seventh and final series it had clocked up forty eight episodes.It began life in 198...
It Ain’t Half Hot Mum!
It Ain't Half Hot Mum! - 1974
It's almost forty years since this popular sitcom ended and today marks 75 years since VJ Day (victory in Japan).Whilst in 1945 there were celebrations for VE day the war was ...
The Comic Strip Presents
The Comic Strip Presents, 1982
Making it's debut in November 1982 on Channel 4, The Comic Strip Presents is an ongoing project by a group of prominent comedians, although at the time many of them were just sta...
The Magnificent Evans
The Magnificent Evans - 1984
"There's no point opening the curtains if there's nothing in the parlour"The Magnificent Evans is largely based on an earlier entry in the Comedy Playhouse series, also from th...
Only Fools And Horses – It Never Rains
Only Fools And Horses - It Never Rains, 1982
Set in Spain, the episode was actually filmed in Dorset. Studland Bay, near Bournemouth was used for the beach.It Never Rains was the sixth episode of series t...
Last Of The Summer Wine – Enter Seymour
Last Of The Summer Wine, The Michael Aldridge Years, 1986 - 1990
This year 2020 sees the tenth anniversary of the final episode of Last Of The Summer Wine.For this post we are looking at the Michael Aldrid...
Allo! Allo!
Allo! Allo! 1982
The 18th June 2020, marked the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the French Resistance. Of course years after the war TV writers were keen to tell the story of the efforts of the resistanc...
Uncle Of the Bride
Uncle Of the Bride, A Last Of The Summer Wine Special, 1986
Summer Wine fans had a real treat with Christmas and New Year T.V. in 1985/86. A feature length New Year's Day special. Brian Wilde had left to per...
Life Without George
Life Without George, 1987
Another one of those sitcoms that despite being popular at the time seems largely forgotten about.It starred Simon Cadell of Hi-De-Hi fame and ran for three series between 1987 an...
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...