The Likely Lads
The Likely Lads, 1964
A classic of it's time and now often forgotten, alongside regular repeats of it's successor Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads and lack of surviving material. This black-and-white sitc...
Auf Wiedersehen Pet – Series One
Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series One, 1983
Now a regular fixture on UKTV freeview channel Yesterday. It's hard to believe that this now cult TV series is 35 years old, seems like only yesterday.
The now legend...
Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads ?
Originally broadcast over two series in 1973 and 1974, This was the colour follow up to the successful 1960's series The Likely Lads.
Whatever Happeneed To The Likely Lads was set five years on from the last...
Porridge – 1974
Porridge - 1974
Following on from the successful pilot 'Prisoner And Escort' Norman Stanley Fletcher returns for a full stretch of Porridge.
Ronnie Barker had preferred another of the proposed pilots about ...
Keeping It In The Family……
Porridge, The New Series, 2017
Back in 2015 as part of BBC's Landmark comedy season a number of classic sitcoms were re-made as one off pilot episodes.
From these, an updated version of Porridge was commiss...
BBC To Serve A Fresh Helping Of Porridge
Classic sitcom Porridge that originally ran for three series between 1974 and 1977 is to return for a brand new series, after encouraging reviews of the one off revival screened as part of the BBC's Landmark Co...
Porridge – 2016
As part of the BBC's Landmark Comedy Season, under the section "brand new episodes of classic sitcoms" came this one off episode of Porridge.
Whilst the original cast were no longer with us, the original wri...
The Likely Lads Movie
Following in the footsteps of many successful TV sitcoms Bob and Terry jumped onto the big screen in 1976, two years after the TV series Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads had ended.
Rodney Bewes and James...
Back With The Boys Again
Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series 2 1986
Thirty Years ago today, we were indeed back with the boys again, in the second of the popular comedy drama series. Running for 13 episodes, this time the lads were heading ...
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...