Galton and Simpson Present – Our Favourite Hancock – Part 1
In Tribute To Alan Simpson Who Passed Away Yesterday
To celebrate the 60th anniversary, in 2014, of the first broadcast of Hancock's Half Hour on BBC Radio. Comedy scriptwriting legends Ray Galton and Alan Sim...
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...
Allo! Allo!
Allo! Allo! 1982
One of the all time great British Sitcoms created by Jeremy Lloyd & David Croft. Following a Pilot episode in 1982, the show clocked up a mammoth ten years on our television screens with ...
Power To The People ! It’s Citizen Smith
Citizen Smith, 1977
It all seems so long ago when a budding young writer (John Sullivan) took a job at the BBC to learn about how televsion works. It was after approaching producer, Dennis Main Wilson, that S...
Only Fools And Horses – The Forgotten Bits
As part of Sport Relief 2014 we saw the return of Del Boy in a one off sketch. However as many fans will know there are a number of recently discovered sketches and some rarities out there. We've had a mooch ...
BBC Landmark Comedy Season – The Documentaries, 2016
In order to cover the whole 2016 Landmark Comedy Season, we've put this short post together to cover the two documentaries screened as part of the schedule.
First up is:
Let's Talk about Alf
Screened to su...
Comedy Feeds, 2016
We've published articles on BBC Comedy Playhouse: Comedy Feeds is the BBC Three equivilent, the main difference being that BBC Three is aimed at a much younger audience than it's mainstream counterparts.
In ...
It’s Back ! – 22nd September
Red Dwarf - 1988
What 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...
Steptoe and Son – A Winter’s Tale
BBC Landmark Comedy Season - The Lost Sitcoms
On 14th September as the season begins to draw to a close BBC 4 broadcast the last of their lost sitcoms. This time it's Steptoe and Son - A Winter's Tale.
Ori...