Les Dawson’s Trip To Paris

Les Dawson's Parisienne Adventure, 2020 Shown as part of Sky's Urban Myths series and based on true story.Les Dawson's Parisienne Adventure was a one off comedy drama tells the story of a young Les Dawson'...

A Spell In The Ads – Arthur Lowe

A Spell In The Ads - Arthur Lowe In a episode of Hancock entitled "The Bowmans" we saw Tony Hancock going through a "lean spell in the pilchards ads".  Whilst this was scripted comedy Hancock did indeed make a...

Dad’s Army: Three Missing Episodes

Dad's Army: The Story Of The Missing Bits Dad's Army remains one of Britain's best loved sitcoms.  However in common with many other shows not all of the original material survived in the BBC archive.  At the ...

Jim Bowen – Live

Jim Bowen, Live at the Thwaites Empire Theatre, Blackburn, 2003 It's just over five years since we lost Jim Bowen.Jim was was one of the early stars of Granada TV's hit show "The Comedians" as well as host...

When Kenny Met Frankie

When Kenny Met Frankie, 1980 (An Edition of Afternoon Plus) Afternoon Plus was a daytime magazine show that was seen as a more serious alternative to the BBC's Pebble Mill magazine show.It had began life i...

Aspel And Co

Aspel And Co, 1984 This year celebrates 50 years of Commercial Radio or Independent Local Radio as it was known back then.  Whilst in itself it has nothing to do with comedy (apart from Kenny Everett) it seeme...
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It’s Funny Up North

Comedy From The North As the Conservatives headed to Manchester for their annual conference we decided to look at some of the classic funny moments all with a Northern feel.How we miss these twohttps:/...

Saturday Nights were Made For TV, Part2

Remembering The Some Of The Greats Of Saturday Night TV We are looking back to a time when Saturday Night was the big night on TV.  It seems particularly relevant having just lost Mike Yarwood and only a few w...

Saturday Nights Were Made For TV, Part 1

Remembering Some Saturday Night Greats, Who Was Your Favourite? There was a time when Saturday was primetime TV.  We've picked some classics from both channels.  How many do you remember watching?Classic B...

Network On Air, Now Off Air

Network On Air, Now Off Air, So What Next For Their Vast Library Of Classic TV? On May 31st 2023 news broke online that Network Distributing, the company best known for it's vast library of classic British tel...