Are You Being Served?
Department Store Antics With The Grace Brothers Staff!
Are You being Served? 1972
Are You Being Served, started life as an episode in the long running BBC Comedy Playhouse series.Set in the men's and wom...
A Very British Send Up
The Royal Family Video Album
A Highly respected and much loved British Institution the Royal family have not been exempt from the satirists and comedy writers.Today on the occasion of another Royal weddin...
British Classic Comedy Talk To Roy Clarke
We talk to Roy Clarke about his classic sitcoms and catch up with Still Open All Hours.The Misfit (1970-71)
Last Of The Summer Wine (1973 - 2010)
Oh No It's Selwyn Frogitt ( Pilot, 1974)
Open All Hours (...
In Tribute To Andrew Sachs
Actor Andrew Sachs has died at the age of 86. In tribute we are running this brief post featuring his best known character Manuel from Fawlty Towers. We are also re-running a post we did on his forgotten sitc...
Sports Relief, 2016
What has comedy got to do with sport? you may ask. Well many top comics come out ad put themselves through the ringer in aid of a good cause. This year Jo Brand did her "walk of hell" from the east side of Br...
Extras – 2005
After the success of The Office, two years later Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant returned to TV screens with an eagerly awaited second comedy series.Their second offering was a joint venture between HBO ...
Are You Being Served – Christmas Special – 1975
Christmas Crackers - 1975
After a pilot in 1972, Are You Being Served started it's ten season run in 1973. However it would be 1975 before we saw the first Christmas Special.Improving sales figures as onl...
So You Think You’ve Got Troubles, 1991
Continuing our tribute to Warren Mitchell, who passed away on Saturday, we've pulled out a rarity that seems to draw a mixed reaction from audiences.So You Think You've Got Troubles was a six part series th...
Saturday Nights Now V’s Then ?
Keep meaning to do this. Here in 2015 and for what seems like years gone by Saturday night TV seems to be dominated particuarly during the autumn/winter by three programs. For the BBC it's Strictly, and Docto...
Tony’s Going On An Economy Drive
Hancock's Half Hour, The Economy Drive
With all the constant talk of cuts and osterity it reminded me of a little gem from Hancock's Half Hour.Taken from the start of the fifth television series there are ...