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Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter

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...
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...
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...

The Galton And Simpson Playhouse

September 16, 2016
1970's, 1970's ITV Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
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 ...
bob monkhouse and denis goodwin were the early writers for hit BBC radi show Calling All Forces

Calling All Forces

July 5, 2016
Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter, Radio
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...
vintage bbc logo as would have probably been used around the time of the light program

Happy Go Lucky, 1951

July 3, 2016
Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter, Radio
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

May 24, 2016
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 to receive Bafta fellowship

Fellowship Award

May 8, 2016
Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter, Latest News
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

February 24, 2016
1970's BBC Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
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...
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