Steptoe And Son Ride Again – 1973
They're Back for a second Feature Film - Steptoe And Son Ride Again - 1973
It's hard to believe that more than 40 years after it's final TV broadcast Steptoe and Son is as popular as it ever was..
Harold’s ...
A Junk Yard Ful Of Laughs On The Big Screen….
Steptoe and Son The Movie - 1972
Like many popular sitcoms of the day Steptoe and Son was given the big screen treatment in 1972. Written by the same writing team that were responsible for the television show...
Galton And Simpson’s Final BBC Playhouse…
Galton And Simpson's Comedy Playhouse: The Handyman, 1963
The story so far... Tom Sloan then Head of Light Entertainment had come up with an idea for a series of sitcom pilot episodes.
The idea was simple a...
BBC Comedy Playhouse, The Offer
Comedy Playhouse, Series One, Episode 4 - The Offer
A recent trawl brought up some episodes of the long running BBC Comedy Playhouse series. Over the coming weeks we'll feature some of those classic pilots no...
Happy Christmas Tony Hancock Style
Hancock's Happy Christmas - 1956
A Christmas Special from Tony Hancock’s popular radio series.
Summary
“Christmas is going to be just like any other day in this house – dead miserable” proclaims Hancock....
70 Years Of British Comedy – 1960’s
Part Three - The 1960's - An Offer ?
Continuing our look back at some of the the highlights in British Comedy over the last 70 years we reach the 1960's. In this post you'll read about two comedians making a ...
70 Years Of British Comedy – 1950’s
The 1950's - The Great British Sitcom Is Born
Continuing our look back at some of the key moments in the changing face of comedy over the last 70 years.
In the history of British Comedy the 1950's is perhap...
Harry H. Corbett In Profile
Harry H. Corbett 1925 - 1982
He would have been 92 today!
Harry H. Corbett will forever be remembered for his starring role alongside Wilfrid Brambell in Steptoe and Son, during the 1960's and 1970's.
De...
Citizen James
Citizen James, 1960
A forgotten BBC comedy starring the late Sid James. With Hancock's Half Hour behind him James strikes out in his own sitcom, Citizen James ran for three series and thirty two episodes betw...
In Profile – Galton And Simpson
Ray Galton And Alan Simpson
Perhaps, Britain's best known comedy writers. Ray Galton and Alan Simpson are best known for their classic sitcom Steptoe and Son and for their work with Tony Hancock, but there we...