Steve Coogan is Alan Partridge
I'm Alan Partridge - 1997 & 2002
The follow up to Knowing Me ,Knowing You sees Steve Coogan reprise his role as Alan Partridge, a failed TV Presenter. I'm Alan Partridge ran for two series of six episode...
This British Rail Worker Wants to Be a Writer….
Colin's Sandwich - 1988
An often forgotten sitcom starring the late great Mel Smith.
Colin's Sandwich was Mel Smith's only venture into the world of sitcom, despite it's success.
Sticking with a tried an...
So The New Doctor Is A Woman
Doctor Who And The Curse Of Fatal Death
Rowan Atkinson pops up for Comic Relief yet again, This time not as Blackadder but as Doctor Who.
This one off story (totalling 23 minutes over four episodes) was pr...
Could This Carla Lane Classic Be Due A Repeat?
The Liver Birds, 1969
Starting life as a pilot episode in Comedy Playhouse in 1969, a full series soon followed. Running for ten years on it's first run, with another series returning in 1996, The Liver Birds...
Keeping Up Appearances
Keeping Up Appearances, 1990
Another Roy Clarke classic, only this time set away from Yorkshire. Clarke's wonderful comic creation Hyacinth Bucket is one of British Sitcoms finest characters. Keping Up Appea...
Rowan Atkinson Joins The Police, In The Thin Blue Line
The Thin Blue Line, 1995
Running for two series between 1995 and 1996, The Thin Blue Line was a BBC sitcom written by Ben Elton, who of corse had written for Rowan Atkinson on Blackadder.
The series was not...
May To December
May To December, 1989 - 1994
May To December was an independent production from Cinema Verity (Verity Lambert of Doctor Who fame) for the BBC. It was about this time, late 1980's, when TV companies began to o...
Heartburn Hotel, But It’s Not Elvis
Heartburn Hotel, 1998
Heartburn Hotel. One of the lesser known John Sullivan sitcom co-written with Steve Glover.
Heartburn Hotel ran for two series between 1998 and 2000. Each series ran for six episode...
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...