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Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter

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

March 16, 2018
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...
title card from the 1969 series the galton and simpson comedy

Galton And Simpson’s The Handyman

February 21, 2018
1960's BBC Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
Galton And Simpson's Comedy Playhouse: The Handyman, 1963 The story so far... Tom Sloan then Head of Light Entertainment had come up with an idea for a series of sitcom pilot episodes.The idea was simple a...
UK Drama are now repeating vintage Black abd white episodes of steptoe and son

BBC Comedy Playhouse, The Offer

February 14, 2018
1960's BBC Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
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

February 8, 2018
1960's BBC Comedy, 1970's BBC Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
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

February 19, 2017
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...
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

February 9, 2017
1960's, 1960's BBC Comedy, BBC Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter, TV Comedy
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...
leslie phillips stars in Galton and Simpson's BBC comedy series Casanova '73

Galton And Simpson’s Casanova

November 5, 2016
1970's BBC Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
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...
title card from the 1969 series the galton and simpson comedy

Galton and Simpson Make A Stop Off At ITV

November 4, 2016
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...
kevin mc nally stars again as Tony Hancock in The New Neighbour as part of the BBC Landmark comedy season

The New Neighbour

October 4, 2016
2000's BBC Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
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

September 19, 2016
Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter, Radio
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...
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