Steptoe and Son, 1962, The World's Most Famous Rag And Bone Men....
Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom about a Father and Son, who are rag and bone men. Set at the fictional address of Oil Drum Lane in Sheph...
Hancock's Half Hour, 1956
Often referred to as the first British sitcom. Hancock’s Half Hour, transferred onto television from the popular radio show of the same name in 1956 and continued until 1960, after ...
Paul Merton In Galton And Simpson's... 1996
Writer and comedian Paul Merton starred in this show recreating some of the scripts from comedy scriptwriting legends Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.Running for 2 s...
Galton and Simpson - I Did It My Way, 2014
The BBC's Landmark Comedy Season was supposed to celebrate 60 years since Hancock's Half Hour came to television. Among all the expectations and variety of shows the...
Our Favourite Hancock - Part 4
The Wild Man Of The Woods
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first broadcast of Hancock's Half Hour on BBC Radio, comedy scriptwriting legends Ray Galton and Alan Simpson ...
Up the Chastity Belt was a 1971 film the second spin-off from the TV series Up Pompeii! that had made it's big screen debut earlier the same year.There were some notable names amongst the cast including Fr...
The Galton And Simpson Comedy, 1969
In a 2014 interview writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson told us how in the early days of their career "We wrote a letter to the big comedy writers of the time, Frank Muir an...
Hancock's Half Hour, Sunday Afternoon At Home, 1958
There was a time when Sundays really were "dead boring" The shops were shut the pubs didn't open all day. Seems hard to believe in this age of 24/7, but in ...
An Evening With Francis Howerd, 1973
An Evening With Francis Howerd was first broadcast by the BBC in three weekly parts under the BBC's 'Show Of The Week' banner.The show was a one off and the three episo...
The Bargee, 1964
The Bargee is a British comedy film.Released in 1964 the film included amongst it's credits the coming together of a team that had all worked together before: Harry H. Corbett, Duncan Wood...