The Rebel, 1961
It's 1961. Thanks to the superb scripts written for him by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, comedian Tony Hancock is one of Britain's biggest stars.With the Hancock's Half Hour TV and Radio sho...
Rhubarb The Film, 1969 and Rhubarb, Rhubarb, TV, 1980
Like 'The Plank' before it Rhubarb was an Eric Sykes short film that had a Television remake of a similar name.The original Rhubarb went on general rel...
The Plank - 1967 (Cinema), 1979 (TV)
Based on a comedy sketch called "Sykes and a Plank", which was written by Eric Sykes for his comedy television series "Sykes and a" An all star line up come together in thi...
Johnny English, 2003
Twenty years after his cameo role as an inept secret agent in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again, Rowan Atkinson returns to British Intelligence, this time he's the star in the Jame...
Morecambe And Wise, Night Train To Murder, 1984
And this is where the story ends. Night Train To Murder was the last work that Eric and Ernie worked on together before Eric's sad death in 1984.The move ba...
The Pink Panther Strikes Again - 1976
The Pink Panther Strikes Again was Peter Sellers' fourth outing as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau and possibly alongside A Shot In The Dark, the funniest in the series. ...
A Home Of Your Own, 1964
Long before The Two Ronnies Ronnie Barker was making us laugh in this Black and White comedy film from 1965.It would be hard to believe that the film was not inspired by the succe...
Futtock's End - 1970
The late great Ronnie Barker stars in Futtock's End, a short (40min), silent, colour film. The exact date seems to jump about a bit product catalogues indicate 1969 where research shows ...
Thirty Years Ago Today Monty Python Star Graham Chapman Died
Yellowbeard, 1983
Celebrating 50 years of Monty Python and commemorating 30 years since the death of Graham Chapman we look back at a Graham Chapma...
A Shot In The Dark - 1964
The second installment of the original Pink Panther series of films and possibly the funniest. The great Peter Sellers reprises his role as legendary comic figure Inspector Jacques Cl...