A History Of Christmas Specials

TV Comedy
Where Did The Festive Favourite Start? As we approach the festive season we look out for those timeless pieces of TV - the Christmas Special.  With modern sitcoms failing to live up to the standards  of the fi...

The Steptoes Get Spooky

1970's BBC Comedy
Steptoe And Son, Seance In A Wet Rag And Bone Yard, 1974 Seance In A Wet Rag and Bone Yard would be the last regular Steptoe and Son episode.Closing series 8 there would be a final Christmas Special later ...

Telephone Problems For Alf

1980's BBC Comedy
From: In Sickness And In Health, Series 3, 1987 Continuing our telephone theme.In Sickness and In Health marked a change in attitudes at the time and perhaps lacked the bite of Till Death Us Do Part, parti...
one of the the most popular sitcoms of the 1970's and still popular today The Good Life

Harvest Festival, Comedy Style, Part 3

1970's BBC Comedy
The Good Life, Backs To The Wall, 1975 In the final part of our Harvest Festival posts we've saved the best till last as we drop in on the Goods as they try to bring in their harvest.Backs To The Wall was ...

Harvest Festival, Comedy Style, Part 2

1970's BBC Comedy
Dad's Army, All Is Safely Gathered In, 1972 As this year marks 180 years of the modern Harvest Festival we are looking at how comedy has looked at the festival.  In the previous post we saw Terry and Arthur mi...

The Catherine Tate Show

2000's BBC Comedy
The Catherine Tate Show, 2004 Currently in the news a lot as she reprises her role as Doctor Who's companion Donna Noble in the upcoming 60th anniversary specials alongside David Tennent.Catherine Tate had...

The British Are Coming…

1980's BBC Comedy
'Allo, 'Allo! - The Pilot Episode, 1982 Two years before the long running sitcom began there was a pilot episode screened in 1982.The series that followed was almost exactly a carry on with just a couple o...

Obscure BBC Sitcom From Carla Lane

1980's BBC Comedy
I Woke Up One Morning, 1985 This gets categorised as both Drama and Sitcom depending on where you look.Despite this it was written by Carla Lane and ran for 2 series of six episodes each in 1985 and 1986. ...

Tracey Ullman’s Show

2000's BBC Comedy
Tracey Ullman's Show, 2016 Having found fame on a Kick Up The Eighties, Three of A Kind and Girls On Top alongside a brief singing career Tracy Ullman went off to the USA in 1987 in which she starred in her ow...