Take It From Here
Take It From Here - 1948
In Tribute To Denis Norden, 1922 - 2018
To 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...
Les Dawson In Profile
Les Dawson, 1931 - 1993
Thirty years ago today we lost one of the all time greats: Les Dawson.
Les was one of Britain's best loved comics, master of the monologue, nobody could tell a Mother In Law joke qui...
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...
Frankie Howerd’s First Vist To Pompeii
Up Pompeii - The BBC TV Series, 1970
Innuendos and titters a plenty as Frankie Howerd takes us back to Ancient Rome.
After a pilot episode in 1969, as part of BBC's Comedy Playhouse, a full series was commi...
Last Of The Summer Wine – Pt 2
The Brian Wilde Years - Part One, 1976 - 1985
In Tribute To Peter Sallis 1921 - 2017
Perhaps the most popular time in the long runing sitcom's time was the first tenure of Brian Wilde.
After ther departu...
70 Years Of British Classic Comedy
70 Years Of British Classic Comedy, 1990's
The decade that brought us the poll tax and the first gulf war. It also saw the resignation of Mrs Thatcher, replaced by John Major. Then of course it was Tony Blai...
Bread, Guest Post
Bread, Christmas, 1989
If you wanted to pick a feature sitcom from the 1980's there are many you could have gone for. However as we aproach the first anniversary of Carla Lane's death it seemed fitting to lo...
70 Years Of British Comedy
70 Years Of British Comedy, The 1980's
Despite it often being remembered for bubblegum pop and dodgy fashions the 1980's was a time of great change.
Who would have thought woman prime minister or a Hollywoo...
70 Years Of British Comedy – 1970’s
70 Years Of British Comedy - 1970's, Part One, BBC
Continuing our look back at some of the comedy highlights of the last 70 years we arrive at the 1970's. The idea behind the posts is to give readers a quick ...