Retirement Grace Brothers’ style
Grace and Favour, 1992
Grace And Favour was the sequel off from the hugely successful Are You Being Served?
The idea for at the show was suggested by the cast of the original series when it ended in 1985....
Department Store Antics At Grace Brothers
Are You being Served? 1972
Are You Being Served, started life as an episode in the long running BBC Comedy Playhouse series.
Set in the men's and women's departments of the fictional Grace Brothers Departm...
Could This Carla Lane Classic Be Due A Repeat?
The Liver Birds, 1969
Starting life as a pilot episode in Comedy Playhouse in 1969, a full series soon followed. Running for ten years on it's first run, with another series returning in 1996, The Liver Birds...
The Story of ‘Are You Being Served?’ 2010
With the new episode of the popular sitcom fresh in viewers' minds, it ssemed a good time to look back at the documentary that delved into the story of what became one Britain's best loved sitcoms.
The docum...
Tribute To The Late….
In the last six years since we started this site we have lost some of Britain's most beloved entertainers. From those who played characters in our favourite sitcoms to the true legends of entertainment.
So ...
The Tea Ladies, 1979
In talking to Tessa Le Bars she told us about a sitcom that we hadn't heard of, naturally we wanted to know more. Very little information exists on this show and regretably Tessa couldn't remember anything muc...
Hyacinth, A Best Seller?
It was reported by The Telegraph that BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, advises that Keeping Up Appearences is it's most successful export. Infact, the first series of the hit Nineties comedy has b...
That’s My Boy – 1963
We spend many hours looking for often forgotten or rare sitcoms, so you can imagine our delight when out of the blue into our inbox popped an email from DVD retailer Network On Air. It detailed a sitcom we had...
Come Back Mrs Noah – 1977
A Forgotten Gem Or The Worst Sitcom in history ?
After a pilot episode in 1977, Come Back Mrs Noah ran for five more episodes in one series. The series was written by the successful writing team of David C...