Omnibus – Tony Hancock
Omnibus - Tony Hancock, From East Cheam To Earls Court, 1985
Omnibus was an award winning BBC documentary TV series. When we started this site the aim was to feature the best of British comic talent and nosta...
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 ...
The Goon Show
The Goon Show, 1951
Considered by many as the greatest radio show of all time. A legend within it's own lifetime The Goon Show was a British Radio Comedy Program that ran for 238 episodes and 12 specials over...
Galton And Simpson Present – 4
Our Favourite Hancock - Part 4
The Wild Man Of The Woods
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 ...
The Tea Ladies
The Tea Ladies, 1979
In talking to Tessa Le Bars she told us about a sitcom that we hadn't heard of, naturally we wanted to know more. Very little information exists on this show and regretably Tessa couldn't...
The Rag Trade
The Rag Trade - BBC Years - 1961 - 1963, ITV Years 1977 - 1978
The Rag Trade was the classic sitcom that had two bites of the cherry. Famous for the catchphrase of it's Shop Steward "Everybody Out!" it's one...
Kenneth Williams, In Profile
Kenneth Williams, 1926 -1988
Perhaps best remembered for his roles in the popular Carry On Films, Kenneth Williams had a long and varied career that spanned forty years.Though Williams was fondly regarded ...
Marty Feldman Stars In….
Marty, 1968
Marty Fieldman was until 1967 perhaps best known as a comedy writer. When he became part of the cast of At Last The 1948 Show. Fresh from the success of this came Fieldman's first TV series in hi...
Power To The People ! It’s Citizen Smith
Citizen Smith, 1977
It all seems so long ago when a budding young writer (John Sullivan) took a job at the BBC to learn about how televsion works. It was after approaching producer, Dennis Main Wilson, that S...
Sykes And A….
Sykes And A....
The BBC sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques that aired for sixty episodes (59 and 1 short) over nine series on BBC1 from 1960 to 1965.Sykes And A was ther first time Eric Sykes a...