In one off drama The Great Kandinsky, written by Terry Winsor and Julian Dyer, elderly escapologist Ernest Kandinsky (screen legend Richard Harris) decides to put on...
“The gentle art of getting and remaining ‘one up’ on the next fellow, so painstakingly chronicled by British humorist Stephen Potter in his series of books,...
BBC sitcom Mr Pastry’s Progress detailed more slapstick misadventures of the elderly flour haired Mr Pastry (Richard Hearne). Hearne was only actually 37 when he began...
In sitcom Bachelor Father, which aired for 22 half hour episodes over two seasons on BBC One between 1970 and 1971, middle aged wealthy bachelor Peter...
One off special for the former BBC producer Ian Carmichael who round about this was becoming a big name film star in Britain appearing in films...
In Five Red Herrings Peter Wimsey is planning a nice bit of relaxation fishing at an artists colony in Scotland. Instead he gets caught up in...
Played by Ian Carmichael, gentleman amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey investigates murder in the 1920’s aided and abetted by his faithful manservant Bunter and with a...
Period comedy series. In the 1920’s silly ass Bertie Wooster is helped out of scrapes by his manservant Jeeves. In 1967 the title changed to the...
The behind-the-scenes squabbles during the making of Lucky Jim could themselves have been something out of a Kingsley Amis novel. Original director Charles Crichton (The Lavender...
In Nazi-occupied Holland, Dutch Colonel Pieter Deventer is aligned with the British forces and searching for a traitor in his ranks. Three screen legends, Clark Gable,...
Director Anthony Kimmins and Nicholas Phipps collaborated on the slick script for The Amorous Prawn a lively screen version of Kimmins’ successful stage farce which contained...
Having gently attacked institutions as diverse as the Army ( Private’s Progress ), the Foreign Office ( Carlton-Browne of the FO ) and the legal profession...
Stirring adventure yarn Storm Over The Nile adapted from The Four Feathers , AEW Mason’s tale of honour, redemption and derring-do set during the British Army’s 1898 campaign...
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...
Left, Right and Centre is a tale love and ballots. Political opponents Ian Carmichael and Patricia Bredin spar their way into each others’ hearts in this delightful...