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...
Pinwright’s Progress, 1946
The first televised British Sitcom. Pinwright's Progress, was broadcast for 10 episodes aired fortnightly with the popular variety show Kaleidoscope.
Each episode was broadcast live from the BBC studios at ...
Hancock’s Half Hour, TV Show, 1956
Happy Birthday Tony !
It was 60 years this very day: that Tony Hancock arrived on our TV screens from radio with his hugely successful sitcom: Hancock's Half Hour. Between the radio series of the same name an...
Ronnie Barker – Seven Of One -1973
Seven Of One was a series made for Ronnie Barker in 1973 of one off possible sitcom pilot episodes.
Originally there had been plans to call the series Six Of One, with Ronnie Barker planning a follow up seri...