Happy Birthday To These TV Classics
Happy Birthday To These TV Classics, All 50 Years Young In 2021
These classic TV shows are still popular today and watching them back it's hard to believe they first hit our TV screens 50 years ago. That's a ...
Is It Time To Bring Out Some Of Those Forgotten Sitcoms
Is It Time To Bring Out Some Of Those Forgotten Sitcoms?
As we all endure lockdown we turn to our TV's for entertainment and a good laugh. It's great watching some of the old classics and I know some are not ...
Hancock’s Half Hour, TV Show
Hancock's Half Hour, 1956
Often referred to as the first British sitcom. Hancock’s Half Hour, transferred onto television from the popular radio show of the same name in 1956 and continued until 1960, after ...
America Decides
America Decides
As America chooses it's next president we take a look back at how the satirists have viewed the more recent PresidentsDonald Trump was in time to be immortalised in the new series of Spitti...
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...