Comedy series that followed Eric Sykes and his attempts to mount a variety show. Hattie Jacques and Ian Wallace also appeared. Guest stars included Ian Wallace,...
Silent comedy The Plank was a remake of a 1967 cinema short, also by Sykes in which two bumbling workmen try to transport a plank of...
In this version of the famous comedy play Charley’s Aunt written by Brandon Thomas and here adapted by star Eric Sykes, we are in the 1890’s...
A pair of sketch specials that teamed the brilliant Eric Sykes with the equally brilliant Peter Sellers. production details Writer: Eric Sykes Producer: Dicky Leeman UK...
Fantasy drama serial. Lowly kitchen boy Steerpike, working for the Groan family in their Castle Gormenghast, decides to rise to the top of the castle hierarchy,...
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...
The team responsible for the Carry On series is up to its profitable larks again with Watch Your Stern ,’ wrote Variety of this Peter Rogers-produced...
Goonish themed humour (check out those writer credits!) from Harry Secombe his guests included fellow Goons Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers as well as Sam Kydd,...
The follow-up to Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) boasts an equally expansive international cast and expensive production. The story follows a 1920s automobile...
Teenager Charlotte Rampling received her big break in this crime caper from the Boulting Brothers. The actress clearly impressed the brothers – best known for making...
The story of wartime heroics is told in flashback by eminent scientist Sir Ernest Pease (James Robertson Justice) when he appears on a This Is Your...
Soon after poking fun at trade unions in I’m Alright Jack, the Boulting brothers turned their satirical eye on an even more controversial subject in Heavens...
Cliquot Et Fils was the very first Comedy Playhouse. It told the story of an undertaker in 1920’s France who needs to drum up trade for...
Comedy If You Go Down To The Woods Today followed a boy scout troupe on manoeuvres in Tangle Woods who find themselves under the surveillance of...
Sitcom Curry and Chips focused on Kevin O’Grady (played by Spike Milligan), a Pakistani worker at Lillicrap Ltd who suffers racial abuse at the hands of...