BBC Comedy Playhouse
BBC Comedy Playhouse - 2014
In March of 2014, following in the footsteps of a trend of reviving old shows the BBC announced the return of the classic Comedy Playhouse.The press release headline read:"S...
British Classic Comedy Talk To Adrienne Conway
It was a bolt out of the blue, when we ran a post about a 1980’s sitcom “Streets Apart” an email popped up from the writer telling us it was nice to see that people still remembered it, as it was a long time ag...
Galton and Simpson Present – Our Favourite Hancock – Part 1
In Tribute To Alan Simpson Who Passed Away Yesterday
To celebrate the 60th anniversary, in 2014, of the first broadcast of Hancock's Half Hour on BBC Radio. Comedy scriptwriting legends Ray Galton and Alan Sim...
Galton and Simpson Discuss The Beginnings Of Hancock.
60 Years This Year - The first ever Hancock's Half Hour was broadcast on BBC Radio
We've spent the last few days in the company of legendary scriptwriters Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, we've discussed Comedy Pl...
British Classic Comedy Talk to Galton and Simpon – Hancock, 1961
Hancock - The Final BBC TV Series
This year marked the sixtieth anniversary of the very first Hancock's Half Hour on BBC Radio. Looking back at sixty years of the great British sitcom. Earlier in the year we...
Galton and Simpson’s 60th Anniversary Interview – Comedy Playhouse
Galton and Simpson's Comedy Playhouse
We continue our special series of posts counting down to the 60th anniversary of Hancock's Half Hour first being broadcast on BBC Radio. We've looked at the impact Comed...
Galton And Simpson Talk Steptoe – Part 2
We left matters in the 1960's with the series being a runaway success, we pick up the story in 1965.BCC: Did you feel Steptoe had come to a natural end in 1965 after four seriesG & S: Yes we did, we...
Galton and Simpson Talk Steptoe – Part 1
To celebrate 60 years since the original transmission of Hancock's Half Hour, we spoke to legendary script writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. We discussed the origins of Hancock's Half Hour, the TV series th...
Galton And Simpson Present – Our Favourite Hancock – Part 2
Twelve Angry Men - 1959
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 are presenting a very special seri...
Battle Of The First Sitcom
Hancock's Half Hour v's Take It From Here
On the 2nd November 1954 on the BBC Home Service Tony Hancock made his debut in a radio show called Hancock's Half Hour, written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson it beca...