UK / BBC / 5x30m-e 1x45m-e / 1954 1 October – 10 December Fridays 9.00pm shown fortnightly Writers: Frank Muir, Denis Norden / Producer: Brian Tesler,...
The Madness, written by John Elliot, was made to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War. It focused on the main protagonists in...
Original Publicity for A Crack In The Ice: In planning a season of plays the producer’s first consideration is his audience. What is my audience? I...
In role reversal ITV Sitcom Never A Cross Word, suburban couple Ronald (Paul Daneman) and Deidre Baldock (Nyree Dawn Porter in the first season and then...
In Sitcom Barney Is My Darling, Barney Pank (Bill Fraser) retires from a life at sea. His wife Romana (Irene Handl) is less than impressed at...
Comedy. A remake of Sykes’ 1970 film short. A policeman will stop at nothing to win a round of golf. The only dialogue spoken in the...
Launder and Gilliat barrack-room farce starring HARRY H CORBETT, BILL FRASER and STANLEY BAXTER. Busted for running an illegal gambling den during World War II, a...
Slyly scripted by Alec Coppel and Nicholas Phipps (the latter also playing a role in the film), The Captain’s Paradise casts Alec Guinness as a sea...
Sitcom that was a sequel to The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole and featured further adolescent episodes in the angst filled teenage life of Adrian Mole,...
With the end of Gazette the adventures of wealthy estate owner James Hadleigh continue in his own self titled series. In the opening episode, Thanks For The...
Doctors’ Daughters was a lesser known entry in the work of Doctor in the House creator Richard Gordon, it dealt with the delicate issue of old...
Sitcom The Train Now Standing told stories of the sleepy old fashioned railway station Burberry Halt and especially its station master Hedley Green. Burberry Halt had,...
Sitcom That’s Your Funeral detailed the misadventures of a pair of undertakers, Basil Bulstrode and Emmanuel Holroyd. The series began life as a Comedy Playhouse edition...
In Marriages, Deaths and Births, the final episode of the second season Bulman decides to arrest a well known villain Johnny Carmos, a member of a...
Extremely popular early comedy The Army Game was set in Hut 29 of the Surplus Ordnance Depot at Nether Hopping, somewhere in remotest Staffordshire, and featured...