The Young Ones
The Young Ones - 1982
Perceived by many at the time as the birth of alternative comedy The Young Ones was the cult BBC comedy classic that surprisingly only ran for 12 episodes over 2 series between 1982 and 1...
Terry And June Make Their TV Debut
Happy Ever After - 1974
This is one of those sitcoms that needs dusting down and re-showing if only out of pure nostalgia. Happy Ever After was the forerunner to Terry and June. It ran for five series totali...
British Classic Comedy Talk To Roy Clarke
We talk to Roy Clarke about his classic sitcoms and catch up with Still Open All Hours.The Misfit (1970-71)
Last Of The Summer Wine (1973 - 2010)
Oh No It's Selwyn Frogitt ( Pilot, 1974)
Open All Hours (...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...