The Funny Side Of Christmas – 1982
The Funny Side Of Christmas - 1982
The Funny Side Of Christmas was a one off BBC Christmas offering broadcast in 1982, presented by Frank Muir and featuring mini episodes/sketches of some popular BBC comedies,...
It’s The One With The Hippo !
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, 1976
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin was originally a series of novels written by and developed into a sitcom by their author David Nobbs.There were three series...
Pygmalion Smith
Pygmalion Smith, 1974
Part of the BBC's long running Comedy Playhouse series, that had started life as Galton and Simpson's Comedy Playhouse for two series, before the BBC realised the potential of it to find ...
The Perishers
The Perishers, 1979
Another popular newspaper cartoon strip that made it to TV screens. The Perishers featured the among others the voice of Leonard Rossiter.The TV series ran for one series of twenty epi...
Rising Damp – The Movie
Rising Damp - The Movie, 1980
Almost two years after the TV series finished, Rigsby hit the big screen with Rising Damp - The Movie.Failing to capture the magic of the TV series, there was no new storyline...
Rising Damp
The Course Of True Love Never Runs Smooth In Rising Damp
Without doubt ITV's finest sitcom and definitely worthy of it's classic status.Rising Damp ran for twenty eight episodes over four series between 19...
Leonard Rossiter’s Last Work – Tripper’s Day
Tripper's Day - 1984
Viewed by some as a classic today, but not critically acclaimed at the time, Tripper's Day is largely remembered as Leonard Rossiter's last work. Sadly the actor died between the broadcas...
Rising Damp – Christmas Special
Rising Damp - For The Man Who Has Everything - Christmas Special - 1975
Despite running for 4 series Rising Damp only ever had 1 Christmas episode. It came at the end of series two while Frances De La Tour wa...
The Commercial Break
British Classic Comedy's Commercial Meltdown
We often feel that ITV don't get the credit they deserve for some of their comedy output. They were of course were the first channel funded by commercials. Over t...
If There Weren’t Any Blacks….
....You'd Have To Invent Them
A one off made for television play from the pen of Johnny Speight. Made by London Weekend Television for ITV and originally screened in Black and White in 1968.This dark, but...