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...
Steptoe And Son – Christmas 1973
Steptoe And Son - The Party - Christmas Special - 1973
As we move into Christmas week we're paying special attention to an all time great that ended 40 years ago this Boxing Day. To remember this classic sitc...
Porridge Christmas Specials – Part 2
Porridge Christmas Special - The Desperate Hours - 1976
Continuing our look back at classic Christmas Specials from years gone by, here's Fletch and Godbher in it up to their necks as usual in this festive edi...
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...
The Thick Of It, 2005
Yes Minister The RE- Generation?
Sorry we couldn't resist. Often described as the 21st century's answer to Yes Minister, The Thick Of It, is the comedy TV series that saturises the inner workings of British ...
Johnny Speight – In Profile
Johnny Speight, 1920 - 1998
Firstly, the boring bits: we've compiled this post from information available to us at the time and therefore it may not contain as much detail as we might like. If and when more d...