Clochemerle, 1972
Mention Galton and Simpson and most will say Hancock or Steptoe, but there was a great deal morer to the legendary scriptwriters' work including this adaptation.Clochemerle, was originally a 1934 French sat...
Steptoe and Son – Night Of 100 Stars
Steptoe and Son - Night Of 100 Stars, 1964
Steptoe and Son is one of our best loved sitcoms, but apart from the TV series and two feature films there's a wealth of other Steptoe material out there. This is ju...
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...
Happy Go Lucky
Happy Go Lucky, 1951
Last week we told you the story of two Englishmen a boat trip to the USA and the influence they would have over comedy as we know it.Whilst the movies kept the world laughing for many...
Cruising With Hancock
Hancock's Half Hour, The Cruise, 1959
From the fifth series of this classic series comes a little gem. First broadcast in 1959 it shows Hancock at his best and features an all star line up in the cast includi...
Tony Hancock’s Christmas Special
Hancock's 43 minutes, 1957
Tony's throwing a Christmas party! well sort of.Hancock's 43 minutes came at the end of the third series of his BBC television series.Christmas Specials as we now know them w...
The Missing Hancocks
The Missing Hancocks, 2014
In November 1954 Ray Galton and Alan Simpson broke with the traditional format of comedy, ie comical sketches and musical interludes, to present the first British sitcom. For comedy...
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...
Galton And Simpson’s Casanova
Casanova '73
This is what I love about British Classic Comedy, you get to discover shows you didn't know about, usually quite by accident, whilst researching something else.Thought you knew all of Ray Galt...
Comedy Playhouse, 1961
Comedy Playhouse, 1961
After Tony Hancock left the BBC, a replacement comedy show was required. As a result of this, then Head Of Light Entertainment. Tom Sloan, determined not to lose his star writers came u...