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Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter

A Junk Yard Full Of Laughs On The Big Screen….

March 26, 2021
Film Spin Offs, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
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...

Citizen James

February 17, 2021
1960's BBC Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
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...

Steptoe And Son: The Radio Series

February 11, 2021
1960's, 1960's BBC Comedy, 1970's, 1970's BBC Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter, Radio
Steptoe And Son - The Radio Series - 1966 - 1976 There was a time when Radio was the medium of the day, then Television arrived and as we have seen some great radio comedy edged it's way onto our TV screens. ...

Galton And Simpson Present – 3

February 3, 2021
Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter, Radio
Our Favourite Hancock  Part 3 -The Radio Years In the third of this special series to mark the 60th anniversary of the first broadcast of Hancock's Half Hour on BBC Radio, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson have pic...
Steptoe and son come together for one last christmas, will harold finally win the day?

Steptoe And Son

January 4, 2021
1960's BBC Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
Steptoe and Son, 1962, The World's Most Famous Rag And Bone Men.... Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom about a Father and Son, who are rag and bone men.  Set at the fictional address of Oil Drum Lane in Sheph...

Galton and Simpson – I Did It My Way

November 30, 2020
Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter, Radio
Galton and Simpson - I Did It My Way, 2014 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 the...

Galton And Simpson Present – 4

November 2, 2020
Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter, Radio
Our Favourite Hancock - Part 4 The Wild Man Of The Woods To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first broadcast of Hancock's Half Hour on BBC Radio, comedy scriptwriting legends Ray Galton and Alan Simpson ...
movie poster for up the chastity belt

Up the Chastity Belt, 1971

October 25, 2020
Film Spin Offs, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
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 amongst the cast including Fr...
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Galton and Simpson Make A Stop Off At ITV

October 19, 2020
1960's ITV Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
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...
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

September 10, 2020
1960's, 1960's BBC Comedy, BBC Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter, TV Comedy
Hancock, The Blood Donor, 1961 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 Simpson presented a very ...
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