In ITV comedy drama Rich Tea and Sympathy, written by David Nobbs, divorced mother Julia Merrygrove (Patricia Hodge) has two teenage children and works as a...
Satirical comedy That Was The Week That Was was the first to take pot shots at the establishment, incredibly popular, talked about and influential and also...
Long running, popular BBC comedy sketch series The Two Ronnies starred portly Ronnie Barker and diminutive Ronnie Corbett. Regular segments included Corbett telling a long winded...
BBC sitcom Lance at Large detailed the misadventures of Alan Day (Lance Percival) who each week find himself in a new situation. This meant of course...
In ITV sitcom Keep It In The Family James Bannister (Tim Barrett) and his wife Yvonne (Vivienne Martin) have allowed their parents – his mum Norah...
Period comedy drama serial Love on a Branch Line was set in the 1950’s when civil servant Jasper Pye (Michael Maloney) is sent to idyllic Arcady...
Ere – Stop Messin’ About. Sketch series (which was Kenneth Williams’ only such series). Joan Sims was a regular. In 1976 Williams returned with a one...
The Sun Trap is probably David Nobbs least well known sitcom, airing for six episodes on Saturdays nights in late spring 1980. The premise saw a...
Sitcom The Glamour Girls followed the exploits of two women, Veronica Hawlett and Debbie Wilkinson, who work for an extremely dodgy modeling agency called Glamgirls Ltd....
In sitcom Fairly Secret Army Major Harry Kitchener Wellington Truscott decides anarchy is just around the corner and sets up his own private army called the...
BBC sitcom Dogfood Dan And The Carmarthen Cowboy actually appeared first as a one off 1982 ITV Playhouse production of the same name. It and the...
In classic sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin middle aged suburbanite Reginald Iolanthe Perrin is in the midst of a massive mid-life crisis. Desperate...
Sitcom The Hello Goodbye Man followed shy middle aged Denis Ailing who, despite being totally unsuited to the task, gets a job as a sales rep...
Lavish period comedy drama Gentlemen’s Relish carried bags of charm with it’s tale set in Edwardian London and story of photographer Kingdom Swann (Billy Connolly) who...