Galton And Simpson Present – Part 6
Divided We Stand, 1972
For the last five weeks legendary scriptwriters Ray Galton and Alan Simpson have been sharing their favourite episodes from their hugely successful career. Today we reach the final part...
Galton And Simpson Present – Part 5
Steptoe And Son - The Desperate Hours, 1972
As we reach the end of this series, for the penultimate part Galton and Simpson turn their attention to their other huge success: Steptoe and Son.G&S: The ep...
British Classic Comedy Talk to Galton and Simpon – Hancock, 1961
Hancock - The Final BBC TV Series
This year marked the sixtieth anniversary of the very first Hancock's Half Hour on BBC Radio. Looking back at sixty years of the great British sitcom. Earlier in the year we...
Galton And Simpson Talk Steptoe – Part 2
We left matters in the 1960's with the series being a runaway success, we pick up the story in 1965.BCC: Did you feel Steptoe had come to a natural end in 1965 after four seriesG & S: Yes we did, we...
Life Of Riley, 2008
A slow burner best describes this BBC sitcom. Life Of Riley, ran for three series totaling twenty episodes, but after the first series it was savaged by the critics, with perhaps the most venomous comments com...
The Office
The Office, 2001
This was the show that made Ricky Gervais a household name. Co - Written with Stephen Merchant the show ran for a total of 14 episodes, two series of 6 episodes each between 2001 and 2002 cul...
Dads Army Marching Back To The Big Screen
It seems we cant get enough of classic comedy remakes as the news today has been full of Dads Army's return.It seems the story broke yesterday in The Sunday Times and has found it's way everywhere else ove...
The Kumars At No. 42 – 2001
The Kumars at No. 42 was originally a BBC comedy talk show that ran for seven series, a total of fifty three episodes. Making it's debut on BBC2 in 2001, the show went on to win an International Emmy Award in ...
Audrey Celebrates Her First Christmas Away From The Manor
First Noel, To The Manor Born Christmas Special - 1979
Despite it's huge popularity, there have only ever been two Christmas Specials for To The Manor Born and only one, the one we are going to look at here, w...
Harry and Paul make two !
Harry Enfield and Chums Returns for 2011
Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse will return for a new series, but it wont be on BBC1 they've moved to BBC2 it was reported in The Sun's TV Biz last week. Whichever c...