Roy Clarke In Profile
Roy Clarke, OBE
Surely Britain's most prolific comedy script writer with a list of works that includes some of Britain's best loved sitcoms.
We interviewed Roy Clarke back in 2014. He sites fellow comedy w...
Keeping Up Appearances
Keeping Up Appearances, 1990
In Tribute To Clive Swift Who Has Died, Aged 82
Another Roy Clarke classic, only this time set away from Yorkshire. Clarke's wonderful comic creation Hyacinth Bucket is one of ...
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.
Summary
Hyacinth and Richard arrive at the church hall as Hyacinth takes it on...
The Magnificent Evans
The Magnificent Evans - 1984
"There's no point opening the curtains if there's nothing in the parlour"
The Magnificent Evans is largely based on an earlier entry in the Comedy Playhouse series, also from th...
The Ultimate Compo Tribute?
Last Of The Summer Wine, It's Never Ten Years, 2008
It was during series 29 that the show chose to pay tribute to it's greatest character - Compo. Played by Bill Owen, Compo had been at the contrite of the s...
Granville Is Opening For Series Five
Still Open All Hours Returns For A Fifth Series
The BBC has ordered a fifth series of hit sitcom Still Open All Hours. Sir David will be reprising his role as Granville in new episodes to air later in the ye...
British Classic Comedy Talk To Roy Clarke
Celebrating sixty years of the great British sitcom, we talk to Roy Clarke about his classic sitcoms and catch up with Still Open All Hours.
The Misfit (1970-71)
Last Of The Summer Wine (1973 - 2010)
Oh No...
An Early Roy Clarke Classic….
The Growing Pains Of PC Penrose, 1975
In a former occupation seasoned sitcom writer was a policeman in Yorkshire. So it should come as no surprise that in this early Roy Clarke sitcom he chose to write about ...
Well Meaning And Disaster Prone, It must be…
Oh No ! It's Selwyn Frogitt - 1974
It's Funny how you remember things. I used to love Oh No It's Selwyn Frogitt and well remember it being used as part of an English class when I was younger. The teacher was...
Comedy Playhouse, 1961
Still Going Strong....
It's hard to believe fifty six years later this idea would still be running and it's success is down to three men who started it al off.
After Tony Hancock left the BBC, a replacement...