Citizen Khan, 2012
In 2015 comedy is big business, whilst comedians are playing to packed houses, sitcom land is still playing catch up.There have been some high profile successful sitcoms over recent years: Not Going Out, W1...
Marriage Lines
Marriage Lines - 1961
Early Richard Briers, Marriage lines was the BBC sitcom that ran for five series through forty six episodes between 1961 and 1966. Originally entitled The Marriage Lines, the show was la...
Cruising With Hancock
Hancock's Half Hour, The Cruise, 1959
Starting a week of posts on the theme of holidays, today we're going cruising with Tony Hancock.From the fifth series of this classic series comes a little gem. First...
Looking Back 30 Years
This week sees the thirtieth anniversary of Live Aid. Whilst it was the biggest television event on the planet, we wondered what were we laughing at in 1985?https://youtu.be/g1rGsNzAgWgAfter all what m...
Galton And Simpson Present – Our Favourite Hancock – Part 2
Twelve Angry Men - 1959
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first broadcast of Hancock's Half Hour on BBC Radio, comedy scriptwriting legends Ray Galton and Alan Simpson are presenting a very special seri...
Battle Of The First Sitcom
Hancock's Half Hour v's Take It From Here
On the 2nd November 1954 on the BBC Home Service Tony Hancock made his debut in a radio show called Hancock's Half Hour, written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson it beca...
Steptoe and Son – Night Of 100 Stars
We featured a collection of Steptoe sketches earlier this year, whilst researching for another post we came across this.The Night of 100 Stars was a charity gala performance at the London Palladium on 23rd ...
Bring Them Back BBC2
If you're of a certain age, early 40's up over you may remember that time of the evening dedicated to news programs and still is today, but during the 1970's and 80's BBC2 introduced us to some legendary comedy...
Are You Being Served? – The Pilot Episode, 1972
Are You Being Served? - Comedy Playhouse - 1972
Classic sitcom, Are You Being Served ran for a marathon ten series between 1973 and 1984, there was even a big screen spin off film. despite all of this, many p...