70 Years Of British Comedy – 1960’s
Part Three - The 1960's - An Offer ?
Continuing our look back at some of the the highlights in British Comedy over the last 70 years we reach the 1960's. In this post you'll read about two comedians making a ...
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 Dick Emery Show
The Dick Emery Show, 1963
From a time when Saturday night television was the highlight of the week. The Dick Emery show kept millions of us entertained with his hilarious sketches and vast array of eccen...
Rising Damp
The Course Of True Love Never Runs Smooth In Rising Damp
Without doubt ITV's finest sitcom and definitely worthy of it's classic status.Rising Damp ran for twenty eight episodes over four series between 19...
Last Of The Summer Wine – Enter Foggy
The Brian Wilde Years - Part One, 1976 - 1985
Perhaps the most popular time in the long running sitcom's time was the first tenure of Brian Wilde.After the departure of Michael Bates there was a vacancy fo...
ITMA – It’s That Man Again
Can I Do You Now Sir ?Today 20th March Dame Vera Lynn celebrates her 103rd birthday. To mark the occasion we’re running this war time classic that kept a nation laughing through it’s darkest days.It’s ...
Till Death Us Do Part
Till Death Us Do Part - 1965
Till Death Us Do Part started life as a Comedy Playhouse pilot, before running for seven series between 1965 and 1975, it became one of the most controversial programs of it's time...
Spike Milligan – ‘Q’
Q.... 1969
'Q' was Spike Milligan's surreal TV comedy sketch show ran for ten series, totaling thirty eight episodes.Each series was identified by a number from 1 - 9, the final series was entitled There's...
Take It From Here
Take It From Here - 1948
In Tribute To Denis Norden, 1922 - 2018To some this was the very first British sitcom a subject we discussed in an earlier post.Take It From Here was the popular Sunday BBC Ra...
Hancock’s Half Hour, The Radio Series, 1954
As part of our celebrations of the 70th anniversary of Hancock's Half Hour TV series we are turning this week over to Tony Hancock: charting his career from his early days in Happy Go Lucky and Educating Archie...