Not Just Corporal Jones
Grandad, 1979
Clive Dunn will perhaps always be best remembered for his role as Corporal Jones in Dad's Army. However among his many other roles was his successful venture into children's television with this...
More Forgotten Radio Comedy With The Motorway Men
The Motorway Men - 1972
Recorded around the same time as the Dad's Army Radio Series The Motorway Men Starred Two Of the Dad's Army Cast.A Pilot Episode aired as part of the series 'Comedy Parade' on BBC R...
Bernard Manning, In Profile
Bernard Manning, 1930 - 2007
Bernard Manning is perhaps best remembered for his appearances on hit 1970's shows The Comedians and The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club.Bernard Manning told jokes about ...
Wilfrid Brambell In Profile
Wilfrid Brambell, 1912 - 1985
Irish film and TV actor Wilfrid Brambell will always be best known for his roles in the hit BBC comedy Steptoe and Son and as Paul Mc Cartney's fictional Grandfather in The Beatle...
Last Of The Summer Wine – The Michael Bates Years
Last Of The Summer Wine - The Michael Bates Years
Last of The Summer Wine made it’s debut in January 1973 as an episode of the long running Comedy Playhouse series. It was commissioned almost immediately fo...
An Audience With Dudley Moore
An Audience With Dudley Moore, 1981
It's hard to believe that it's almost twenty years (2002) since the passing of Dudley Moore.Here we look back on his turn on the hit ITV series An Audience With...Su...
It’s Commercial Break Time – With Bob Monkhouse
Bob's Fab Ads - 1996
We came across this by accident.From a time when there was always a piece of comic genius to look forward to on a Bank Holiday Monday. A one off show presented by the late great Bob M...
Blackadder: Back And Forth
Blackadder: Back And Forth - 1999
Blackaddder Back & Forth brought the famous historical send up series to an end. Screened some ten years after what was to have been the final instalment, Blackadder Goes...
Brush Strokes
Brush Strokes, 1986
Another sitcom put to the back of people's minds, but in it's day it really caught on. However if you've ever seen it all the way through you might be of the same opinion as this writer - ...
Richard And Audrey Are Celebrating Their Anniversary
To The Manor Born - Christmas 2007
A one off Christmas episode that was generally panned by the critics and received the 2007 Comedy.co.uk award for "The Worst British TV Sitcom Special 2007"However critic...