Appearance? Phoenix Nights meets The Comedians with a smattering of The Good Old Days and that classic ’70s fodder chicken in a basket. Why was it...
Mack Sennett was one of the key figures of the silent film era. He was an actor, writer, director, producer, deal-maker and star-maker. Hell, he was...
Norman Stanley Fletcher (Ronnie Barker) is ‘an habitual criminal who accepts arrest as an occupational hazard and presumably accepts imprisonment in the same casual manner’. As...
The life of Arthur Lowe was not filled with the laughs he so easily gave to others. The Dad’s Army star struggled with depression, anxiety and...
Channel: BBC1, 1959 , 1960s, 1989 Starring:Bernard Horsfall, Brian Smith, Peter Davison, Brian Glover. Posh private detective series introducing a gentleman sleuth from the Golden Era...
Written by Cook and originally performed in a revue by Kenneth Williams, this legendary sketch also appeared in Beyond The Fringe and made several TV appearances...
Kenneth Williams did a lovely assassination job on the splendid historical figure of Julius Caesar in 1964 film Carry on Cleo. How can anybody now hear...
Cheapo, cult children’s show with a dark side Appearance? Energetic green dog called Roobarb, slothful pink cat Custard, wicked birds, wobbly animation and a dirty guitar/harmonica...
What was it all about? A send-up of the sort of stiff-upper-lip boys’ own adventure stories popular in the early part of the 20th century where...
What was it all about? Comedy in the cloisters between a rum bunch of clerics. This was gentle Sixties stuff where the Archdeacon’s biggest sin was...