In one off drama Suffer Little Children, written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson for the Saturday Night Theatre strand, there is a major crisis going...
Sitcom No Appointment Necessary focused on Alf Butler (Roy Kinnear) a greengrocer who also owned a ladies hairdressing salon. When he realises that the hairdressers is...
Sitcom. Middle aged Neville (Terry Scott) has trouble breaking away from the apron strings of his mother (played by Mollie Sugden). UK / BBC One /...
Sitcom Coppers End was very much from the Will Hay (and Ask A Policeman in particular) school of comedy; When the series began the boys at...
Sitcom Odd Man Out saw down at heel Blackpool fish and chip shop owner Neville Sutcliffe inheriting a half-share in his father’s stick of rock factory...
Sitcom Rude Health told stories of the staff of a small town doctors surgery. cast John Wells as Dr. Charles Sweet Josephine Tewson as Mrs. Thorpe...
Sitcom His Lordship Entertains was a change of channel and title for Ronnie Barker’s series Hark at Barker and continuing the misadventures of Lord Rustless at...
Sketch based sitcom Hark At Barker detailed the misadventures of the crotchety old Lord Rustless and his dodgy servants at his stately home Chrome Hall. Played...
One of Ronnie Barker’s lesser known sitcoms but definitely up there amongst his most enjoyable, set in a wonderfully realised 1930’s Clarence, made in 1988 sees...
The many faces, male and female, of comedian Dick Emery. Who were the principal characters? Maybe because he was married five times, Dick Emery was particularly...
Anthology series Wodehouse Playhouse used the stories of P.G. Wodehouse (naturally enough) for it’s episodes. Husband and wife team Pauline Collins and John Alderton starred in...
Comedy Elementary My Dear Watson was a send up of the Sherlock Holmes oeuvre set in the modern day but with Sherlock and Watson dressed in...
In A Coffin For The Bride dashing Mark Walker is a major hit with women of a certain age, he likes to marry them and then,once...
Back in 1974 the incomparable Ray Galton and Alan Simpson (that writing duo who had met in a TB clinic and gone on to create Hancock’s...