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...
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...
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...