Jim Davidson’s Doing The Driving In….
Home James, 1987
The sequel to Up The Elephant And Round The Castle, Home James sees Jim Davidson reprise his role as Jim London.Produced by Thames Television for ITV, there were 4 series broadcast between...
Up The Elephant And Round The Castle
Up The Elephant And Round The Castle, 1983
Made by Thames Television for the ITV Network, this was Jim Davidson’s first dabble with sitcom. Up The Elephant and Round The Castle ran for twenty two episodes, ai...
All In Good Faith
All In Good Faith - 1985
Here's a sitcom I'd never heard of starring the late Richard Briers. Screened in the mid 1980's All In Good faith ran from 1985 to 1988, three series, one special totaling 19 episodes...
Brass
Brass, 1983
An unusual comedy drama from ITV that ran originally for three series, before coming back for a second bite at the cherry in 1990 on Channel 4.A very clever and dry comedy, that used convoluted...
From Newspapers To Television – Andy Capp
Andy Capp - 1988
Andy Capp was the famous cartoon creation of Reg Smythe that appeared in the Daily Mirror (and still does). James Bolam brought the character to life in a one off series for ITV in 1988.W...
Roy Kinnear’s Last TV Role Was In This Cancelled Sitcom
Hardwicke House
One of the last roles Roy Kinnear played before his sad death in 1988. Hardwicke House was a seven part ITV sitcom. Too say this sitcom was a little contraversial might be an understatement. ...
Early Madhouse Antics with Russ Abbott
Russ Abbott's Saturday Madhouse 1981 - 1982, Russ Abbott's Madhouse - 1984
This may fool you, many people think of Madhouse as the primetime BBC show of the 1980’s, but you’d be wrong. Russ Abbott’s Saturday...
The Comedians – Part 2
Continuing our look back at the story of The Comedians - Bringing the story up to dateIn part one we told about how the show came about, by the end the stars had become household names as the series became ...