Carla Lane: The Ones That Got Away
Carla Lane's Forgotten Sitcoms
Carla Lane broke the tradition of all male sitcom writers when alongside Myra Taylor she created The Liver Birds. Other successes followed. We all remember her work on Bless Th...
Bread
Bread, 1986
Marking Thirty years Since Graham Bickley and Melanie Hill took their slice of Bread!It was 9.30pm. on Thursday 1sy May 1986, that we first met the Boswell family and it's thirty years since tw...
The Liver Birds (Revival)
The Liver Birds (Revival), 1996
The 1990's seemed to be marked as a decade of comebacks. Many popular sitcoms and even comedians from past decades made a comeback in the decade.The Liver Birds had been a ...
Butterflies, Christmas 1979
Butterflies, Christmas With The Parkinsons, 1979
Butterflies, 1979, it's hard to believe that this classic is now almost forty years old.Hugely popular in it's day Butterflies only ever served up one full...
Carla Lane In Profile
Carla Lane, 1928 - 2016
"I did my best at a time when it was easier to do" So said Carla Lane when she spoke with us back in 2014.Comedy Playhouse was the brainchild of Tom Sloan, who as head of BBC Comedy...
Could This Carla Lane Classic Be Due A Repeat?
The Liver Birds, 1969
Starting life as a pilot episode in Comedy Playhouse in 1969, a full series soon followed. Running for ten years on it's first run, with another series returning in 1996, The Liver Birds...
Felicity Kendal Goes Solo
Solo, 1981
After the success of The Good Life, it's stars were household names and went on to star in their own right in other projects. Solo was a vehicle for Felicity Kendal.Written by Carla Lane, of Bu...
Butterflies
Butterflies, 1978
From the pen of Carla Lane (Liver Birds and Bread) came this clever sitcom about a frustrated housewife and her family. Strangely, despite it's popularity it was broadcast on BBC2. Over fou...
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...
“I think I did my best when it was easier to do”.
Bread Maker, Carla Lane Dies Aged 87
Carla Lane creator of hit 1980's sitcom Bread has died aged 87.Carla Lane was a trailblazer of her time. Among a list of all male writers in the hit BBC Comedy Playhou...