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’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...
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...
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...
Happy Go Lucky, 1951
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...
Steptoe And Son: The Radio Series
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.
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Fellowship Award
Comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson are to be honoured with a Bafta fellowship at this year's ceremony.
The duo, who created Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe and Son, are credited as "the trailblazers of...
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...