The Blackpool Show was a variety show broadcast on Sunday nights from the ABC Theatre in Blackpool. In something of a last hurrah for his career...
UK / BBC2 / 3x45m-e / 1973 30 April – 14 May Mondays 9.25pm Producer: John Ammonds A short run series of Frankie Howerd’s normal mixture...
UK / ABC / 28×30 minutes / 1959 2 Seasons Writers: Michael Bentine, Dick Lester / Director: Dick Lester Comedy. A mixture of sketch and musical...
UK / BBC1 / 1x25m-e / 1964 (18 October – Sundays 11.15pm) Writers: Frankie Howerd, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, Frank Muir and Denis Nordern, David...
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...
On 25 June 1968 iconic comedian Tony Hancock was found dead in a flat in Sydney Australia after taking an overdose of sleeping pills. Things had...
Comedy series Frankly Howerd detailed episodes in the life of Frankie Howerd ‘ala’ Tony Hancock. The series stemmed from a previous collaboration between Howerd and his...
Frankie Howerd (né Francis Alick Howard) was an almost constant presence on British television from the 1950s until his death in 1992. His career was a...
Comedy Bandbox was a mainly stand up based show that also featured some sketch type material, on this show Les Dawson, Dave Allen, Jimmy Tarbuck and...
Hapless innocent Willy Joy (Frankie Howerd) is working at a greyhound track, unfortunately so is a gang of undesirables who are doping the dogs in an...
A set of comedy Christmas Specials in which the Carry On Team take the mickey out of various genres including a Scrooge and Treasure Island send...
In The Great St Trinian’s Train Robbery a gang of crooks led by Alphonse Askett (Frankie Howerd) hide the ill-gotten gains from a train robbery in...
The Howerd Confessions was a typical Frankie Howerd series, but not one of his best. It was an anthology of six individual comedies detailing incidents in...
2nd belated and final revival of Up Pompeii, this time Lurcio was based in the reign of Caligula, was a freeman and ran his own wine...
Comedy Further Up Pompeii! was a one off revival of Frankie Howerd’s Up Pompeii sitcom and detailing further adventures of Roman slave Lurcio. It aired five...