Up The Convicts
Up The Convicts, 1976
Another Australian spin off. This time Frankie Howerd stars in a spin off from his British success Up Pompeii. Not much is known about this series, but we've put together what we can f...
Galton and Simpson Present – Our Favourite Hancock – Part 1
Hancock, The Blood Donor, 1961
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 Simpson presented a very ...
Hancock’s Sunday Afternoon
Hancock's Half Hour, Sunday Afternoon At Home, 1958
There was a time when Sundays really were "dead boring" The shops were shut the pubs didn't open all day. Seems hard to believe in this age of 24/7, but in ...
The Royals And Comedy
How Comedy Has Portrayed The Royal Family
Looking back over the years it seems no subject has been spared by comedy writers, even the Royal family. From pranks on Beadle's About to satire, they even get their...
The Comic Strip Presents
The Comic Strip Presents, 1982
Making it's debut in November 1982 on Channel 4, The Comic Strip Presents is an ongoing project by a group of prominent comedians, although at the time many of them were just sta...
Father Dear Father In Australia
Father Dear Father In Australia, 1978
Between 1968 and 1973 Father Dear Father had been a huge ratings winner for ITV.Five years after the original series finished the show popped up for a new series in Au...
Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights
Phoenix Nights, 2001
Peter Kay's hugely popular and BAFTA-nominated British sitcom about The Phoenix Club, a working men's club in the northern English town of Farnworth, Greater Manchester.The show was a ...
Sunday Service With The Sitcom
The Vicar And The Sitcom
For many years the traditional Sunday morning church service has been a staple of the British way of life. It's therefore only fitting that the local vicar should play a part in sitco...
Carla Lane: The Ones That Got Away
Carla Lane's Forgotten Sitcoms
Carla Lane broke the tradition of all male sitcom writers when alongside Myra Taylor she created The Liver Birds. Other successes followed. We all remember her work on Bless Th...
Re-made In The USA
UK Sitcoms That Were Re-made In The USA
Sitcoms have been part of the fabric of British society since the 1950's. We've seen some classics over the years, but it's not just Britain that likes it's sitcoms.
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