Comedy sketch special starring Harry Secombe supported by Terry-Thomas and Bill Fraser. Writer Jimmy Grafton was pivotal in bringing the Goons together, he ran a pub...
“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,...
Sitcom The Old Campaigner was a rare TV series role for Terry-Thomas, in his typical caddish fashion he played super salesman James Franklin-Jones or FJ as...
This is the second screen appearance of Ronald Searle’s immortal creations under the now experienced leadership of director Frank Launder. With St. Trinian’s headmistress Miss Fritton...
This lively sequel to 1959’s The Mouse That Roared is once again set in the minuscule middle-European state of Grand Fenwick, ruled by Grand Duchess Gloriana...
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...
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...
Having gently attacked institutions as diverse as the Army ( Private’s Progress ), the Foreign Office ( Carlton-Browne of the FO ) and the legal profession...
Two of British cinema’s enduring talents are behind this devilishly funny black comedy: Sidney Launder and Frank Gilliat produced and wrote The Green Man, basing it on...
Mild undergraduate Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) is called up for military service during the Second World War but has a hard time since he proves to...
Having been created as a puppet by the legendary Peter Firmin (who along with Oliver Postgate created some truly magical children’s telly) and given voice by...