Wilfrid Brambell In Profile
Wilfrid Brambell, 1912 - 1985
Irish film and TV actor Wilfrid Brambell will always be best known for his roles in the hit BBC comedy Steptoe and Son and as Paul Mc Cartney's fictional Grandfather in The Beatle...
Last Of The Summer Wine – The Michael Bates Years
Last Of The Summer Wine - The Michael Bates Years
Last of The Summer Wine made it’s debut in January 1973 as an episode of the long running Comedy Playhouse series. It was commissioned almost immediately fo...
An Audience With Dudley Moore
An Audience With Dudley Moore, 1981
It's hard to believe that it's almost twenty years (2002) since the passing of Dudley Moore.
Here we look back on his turn on the hit ITV series An Audience With...
Su...
Till Death Us Do Part – Christmas Special
Till Death Us Do Part - 1972 Christmas Special - Jesus Christ Superstar
One of the great comedies and one of our best loved characters – Alf Garnett. Till Death Us Do Part started life in the 1960’s and retur...
It’s Commercial Break Time – With Bob Monkhouse
Bob's Fab Ads - 1996
We came across this by accident.
From a time when there was always a piece of comic genius to look forward to on a Bank Holiday Monday. A one off show presented by the late great Bob M...
Blackadder: Back And Forth
Blackadder: Back And Forth - 1999
Blackaddder Back & Forth brought the famous historical send up series to an end. Screened some ten years after what was to have been the final instalment, Blackadder Goes...
Monty Python’s Life Of Brian
Monty Python's Life Of Brian - 1979
Perhaps the best remembered and best loved of the Python movies. Life Of Brian was hugely controversial, but hysterically funny.
The film does contain themes of religiou...
It’s Not The Sweeney………
Home To Roost, 1985
Think John Thaw and you'll almost certainly think of The Sweeney or Inspector Morse and you'd be right.
However in 1985 he starred in this ITV sitcom and it was rather funny. So much so...
The Wheeltappers And Shunters Social Club
The Wheeltappers And Shunters Social Club - 1974 - 1977
From the same stable as The Comedians this Saturday Night variety show introduced us to some great comic names, ie: Grumblweeeds, Cannon and Ball. The s...
And There’s More – Jimmy Cricket In Profile
Jimmy Cricket 1945 - present
Another legend still going strong. Jimmy Cricket, the popular Irish Comedian that is seen on TV all too rarely these days. Perhaps best known for his trademark wellies and family...