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the cast of the bbc tv series are you being served?

Department Store Antics At Grace Brothers

June 8, 2018

1970's, 1970's BBC Comedy, 1980's, 1980's BBC Comedy, BBC Comedy, TV Comedy

Are You being Served? 1972 Are You Being Served, started life as an episode in the long running BBC Comedy Playhouse series. Set in the men's and women's departments of the fictional Grace Brothers Departm...

The Young Ones

May 26, 2018

1980's, 1980's BBC Comedy, BBC Comedy, TV Comedy

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 Scott and June Whitfield star in their earlier sitcom happy ever after

Terry And June Make Their TV Debut

May 10, 2018

1970's, 1970's BBC Comedy, BBC Comedy

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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

April 22, 2018

BBC Comedy, Interviews, TV Comedy

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 (...

Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads ?

November 22, 2017

1970's, 1970's BBC Comedy, BBC Comedy, TV Comedy

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Originally broadcast over two series in 1973 and 1974, This was the colour follow up to the successful 1960's series The Likely Lads. Whatever Happeneed To The Likely Lads was set five years on from the last...

The New Statesman

April 13, 2017

1980's, 1980's ITV Comedy, 1990's, 1990's BBC Comedy, 1990's ITV Comedy, BBC Comedy, ITV Comedy, TV Comedy

galton and simpson present their personal favourite episodes from their work in part one it's tony hancock in the blood donor

Galton and Simpson Present – Our Favourite Hancock – Part 1

February 9, 2017

1960's, 1960's BBC Comedy, BBC Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter, TV Comedy

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

February 9, 2017

1980's, 1980's BBC Comedy, 1990's, 1990's BBC Comedy, BBC Comedy, C4 Comedy, TV Comedy

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

December 7, 2016

1970's, 1970's BBC Comedy, BBC Comedy

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

October 4, 2016

BBC Comedy

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...

Patrick Macnee Dies

First Look At New Gavin And Stacey

Jean Fergusson Dies

Little Britain To Return !

Harry Hill Is Back

Spitting Image – Spitting Back?

Pick Of The News

Anyone For Brexit?

Gavin and Stacey at Christmas

Catherine Tate in Nan’s Christmas Carol

Christmas In Sickness And In Health

Galton and Simpson's 60th Anniversary Interview - Comedy Playhouse

British Classic Comedy Talk To Adrienne Conway

British Classic Comedy Talk To Roy Clarke

British Classic Comedy Talk To Carla Lane

We Talk To Tessa Le Bars

Galton and Simpson Discuss The Beginnings Of Hancock.

British Classic Comedy Talk to Galton and Simpon – Hancock, 1961

Just A Minute

Change At Oglethorpe

The Enchanting World Of Hinge And Bracket

The Museum Of Curiosity

Ray’s A Laugh

Week Ending

Clare In The Community

Department Store Antics At Grace Brothers

The Young Ones

Terry And June Make Their TV Debut

British Classic Comedy Talk To Roy Clarke

Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads ?

The New Statesman

Galton and Simpson Present – Our Favourite Hancock – Part 1

The Comic Strip Presents

Power To The People ! It’s Citizen Smith

BBC Landmark Comedy Season – The Documentaries, 2016