Holiday On The Buses
Holiday On The Buses - 1973
This classic set in the summer will be 50 years old in December. Seems like yesterday but who'd have thought we'd still be laughing 50 years later.All the gang are back for th...
Rising Damp – The Movie
Rising Damp - The Movie, 1980
Almost two years after the TV series finished, Rigsby hit the big screen with Rising Damp - The Movie.Failing to capture the magic of the TV series, there was no new storyline...
HMS Troutbridge Spins Off
The Navy Lark Spin Offs
The Navy Lark remains one of radio's best loved and longest running at 15 series over 244 episodes. It's also table for having perhaps the most spin offs.Sadly as little of the mat...
A Junk Yard Full Of Laughs On The Big Screen….
Steptoe and Son The Movie - 1972
Like many popular sitcoms of the day Steptoe and Son was given the big screen treatment in 1972. Written by the same writing team that were responsible for the television show...
And Now for Something Completely Different, 1971
Monty Python's Very First Feature Film
On to the big screen bounds 90 minutes of sketches based on those from the first two series of Monty Python's Flying Circus. The sketches were intended for an American a...
The Punch And Judy Man
The Punch And Judy Man, 1963
In a 2014 interview Ray Galton and Alan Simpson told us they had a three picture deal with Tony Hancock. The first - The Rebel, was a huge success, the scriptwriters submitted an ...
Up the Chastity Belt, 1971
Up the Chastity Belt, 1971
Up the Chastity Belt was a 1971 film, the second spin-off from the TV series Up Pompeii! that had made it's big screen debut earlier the same year.There were some notable names a...
Porridge Served On The Big Screen
Porridge - The Movie - 1979
Two years after the end of the TV series, Porridge takes it's turn on the big screen.With a script by the original writers and many of the original cast returning this was one o...
Bless This House, On The Big Screen
Bless This House - The Movie - 1972
Of all the TV spin off movies this is one of the better ones as it stands up well on it's own, even without being a spin off from the TV series. And just to make you apprec...
The Likely Lads Movie
Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads, The Movie, 1976
Following in the footsteps of many successful TV sitcoms Bob and Terry jumped onto the big screen in 1976, two years after the TV series Whatever Happened ...