Sitcom that is basically the final season of Hancock’s Half Hour with Tony Hancock going solo after tiring of working with Sid. Some of Hancock’s best...
Period sitcom Get Well Soon took us back to 1947 when two young lads, Roy Osborne and Brian Clapton share a room in a TB Sanitarium...
Comedy series that was a mixture of stand up comedy and sitcom as Frankie Howerd related to his audience his latest calamity etc. The show then...
One off comedy Cheers was part of the Galton and Simpson Playhouse series of individual comedies, superbly cast it followed the exploits of a pair of...
Rightly regarded as being amongst the best TV comedy writers Britain has produced Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, after creating Hancock’s Half Hour in the 1950’s...
Sanford and Son debuted as a mid-season replacement in January 1972 and was an instant success. It was produced by Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin, the...
A Winter’s Tale is the second of three recreations of lost sitcoms put together as part of the BBC’s Sitcom Season. This Steptoe and Son revival,...
The New Neighbour is an interesting part of the BBC’s Sitcom Season celebration with three sitcoms – Hancock’s Half Hour, Till Death Us Do Part and...
The Curse of Steptoe was a period drama that showed how the personal problems of Harry H Corbett and Wilfred Brambell were used by writers Ray...
What was it all about? The life and times of Anthony Aloysius St. John Hancock, self-appointed sage of East Cheam although it was actually billed as...
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...
UK / BBC One / 1×120 minute episodes / Broadcast 1 September 1991 Writer: William Humble / Music: Tony Britton / Director: Tony Smith Series: Screen...
Hancock’s Half Hour, its title announced in breathless, stammering fashion by ‘the lad himself, was one of Britain’s first major comedy series and remains in the...