Comedy Playhouse, 1961
Comedy Playhouse, 1961
After Tony Hancock left the BBC, a replacement comedy show was required. As a result of this, then Head Of Light Entertainment. Tom Sloan, determined not to lose his star writers came u...
Potter
Potter, 1979
This largely forgotten classic from the pen of Roy Clarke, ran for three series between 1979 and 1983, Potter was Arthur Lowe’s last work, he died in 1982.As plans for a third series were so a...
Open All Hours
Open All Hours, 1976
In Tribute To Lynda Barron, 1939 - 2022A true classic sitcom. Starting out as the opening episode of the Seven Of One series in 1973, Open All Hours ran for twenty six episodes over ...
Last Of The Summer Wine – Enter Seymour
Last Of The Summer Wine, The Michael Aldridge Years, 1986 - 1990
It's 35 years this year since Michael Aldridge appeared in his first full series of Last Of The Summer Wine, in an episode screened on 4th Janua...
Keeping Up Appearances Christmas 1991
Keeping Up Appearances Christmas 1991, The Father Christmas Suit
As funny today as it was thirty years ago, The Father Christmas Suit became The show's first Christmas Special and the final episode of series ...
Keeping Up Appearences, Christmas 1995
"The Pageant"
The third and final Christmas special and as it turned out the final episode, except two special compilations.SummaryHyacinth and Richard arrive at the church hall as Hyacinth takes it on...
Last Of The Summer Wine – Crums, 1988
Enter Auntie Wainwright
It's Christmas 1988 and the series that followed would be the last to feature Seymour. In this episode we meet Howard's Auntie Wainwright who was about to become a permanent fixture in...
Rosie
Rosie, 1977
Another sitcom by a well known writer that perhaps gets overshadowed by all his other high profile successes.An under-rated gem from writer Roy Clarke, that drew on his own experiences as a Pol...
The Growing Pains Of PC Penrose
The Growing Pains Of PC Penrose, 1975
An early Roy Clarke sitcom.In a former occupation seasoned sitcom writer Roy Clarke was a policeman in Yorkshire. So it should come as no surprise that in one of his ...
First Of The Summer Wine
First of the Summer Wine, 1988
Roy Clarke’s prequel to the long running Last Of The Summer Wine portrayed the youth of the principal characters from the main show in the months leading up to World War II. Wit...