BBC Comedy Playhouse, The Offer
Comedy Playhouse, Series One, Episode 4 - The Offer
A recent trawl brought up some episodes of the long running BBC Comedy Playhouse series. Over the coming weeks we'll feature some of those classic pilots no...
Comedy Playhouse, 1961
Still Going Strong....
It's hard to believe fifty six years later this idea would still be running and it's success is down to three men who started it al off.
After Tony Hancock left the BBC, a replacement...
Citizen James
Citizen James, 1960
A forgotten BBC comedy starring the late Sid James. With Hancock's Half Hour behind him James strikes out in his own sitcom, Citizen James ran for three series and thirty two episodes betw...
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...
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...
Galton and Simpson Make A Stop Off At ITV
The Galton And Simpson Comedy, 1969
In a 2014 interview writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson told us how in the early days of their career "We wrote a letter to the big comedy writers of the time, Frank Muir an...
The New Neighbour
BBC Landmark Comedy Season - Lost Sitcoms - Hancock's Half Hour
The second of the BBC's re-makes, this time it's a missing Hancock. Re-makes of lost Hancock's Half Hour episodes has been an ongoing project in...
Galton and Simpson – I Did It My Way
The BBC's Landmark Comedy Season was supposed to celebrate 60 years since Hancock's Half Hour came to television. Among all the expectations and variety of shows there seemed to be somthing very obviously wron...
The Galton And Simpson Playhouse
The Galton And Simpson Playhouse - 1977
After Steptoe ans Son ended in 1974, Galton and Simpson continued to write but the media would have us believe any further high profile hits seemed to alude them.
In ...
Calling All Forces
As part of our celebrations of the 70th anniversary of Hancock's Half Hour TV series we are turning this week over to Tony Hancock: charting his career from his early days in Happy Go Lucky and Educating Archie...