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Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter

les dawson stars in Dawson's Weekly 7 one off sitcoms written by galton and simpson

Dawson’s Weekly, 1975

October 16, 2018
1970's ITV Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
In Tribute To Ray Galton Who Passed Away Last Week Galton And Simpson And Les Dawson Present:Dawson's Weekly, 1975 Dawson's Weekly sees Les Dason try his hand at sitcom with a little help from legendary comed...

Hancock’s Half Hour, The Radio Series, 1954

June 27, 2018
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...
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 all off.After Tony Hancock left the BBC, a replacemen...
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...
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