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A series of 12 unconnected half-hour sitcoms, all written by different writers, created as a starring vehicle for Maureen Lipman.
Television sitcom based on the French and Saunders sketch, "Modern Mother and Daughter".
Subtitled 'A Bryan's Eye View on the World', and was a starring vehicle for Southport born actress/comedienne Dora Bryan
Six episode series developed for television by Paul Mayhew-Archer from his own BBC Radio 2 series.
Sitcom following the adventures of a retired Army Brigadier, Garnet Wellington-Bull, a widowed career soldier who, now retired, is trying to come to terms with life on civvy street but not finding it very easy.
Sitcom that aired on ITV from 1988 to 1992. Starring Prunella Scales and Joan Sanderson.
British sketch comedy show that followed hot on the heels of Not The Nine O'Clock News which also featured the programme's stars, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones.
Alfred Marks starring comedy vehicle produced by Yorkshire Television.
Beryl Reid and Richard O'Sullivan in a typical early 70s sitcom.
Sketch comedy television series starring Robbie Coltrane, Ben Elton, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Siobhan Redmond and Emma Thompson
Television ecclesiastical sitcom which aired on BBC1 from 1966 to 1971.
Television programme, broadcast once only in the United Kingdom in 1977, and later broadcast in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, as a fictional hoax
Almost a direct follow on from the BBC's popular Not In Front Of The Children starring Wendy Craig
Hugely successful series from Granada TV that started in 1957 as a fortnightly live sitcom, which was moved to a weekly spot when it became so popular. The series followed the misfortunes of a mixed bag of army conscripts.
Britain's foremost sketch-show comedian of the early 1960s in his own series.
Black-and-white television series that aired on ITV in 1960. Starring Arthur Askey.
Satirical television show made by David Frost's company, Paradine Productions in association with Rediffusion London
This first-rate costume satire from the BBC was an adaptation of Anthony Trollope's first two tales of fictional Barsetshire, and a quiet Victorian city (Barchester) where Septimus Harding resides.
A married couple's uneasy attempt to adjust to married life after years apart.
Includes information on BBC comedy TV shows. Also includes information on "big shows" that are running on BBC television.
Sitcom starring Miranda Hart. Episodes, clips and gallery.
Television sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1965 to 1966.
A 'keeping up with the Joneses sitcom starring Reg Varney and Pat Combs
A one-off special featuring a series of sketches portraying the eccentricities of the British courtesy of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
Followed a selection of characters on their holiday at an all-inclusive hotel in Benidorm called the Solana.
Comedy television show starring Benny Hill that aired in various forms between 15 January 1955 and 1 May 1989
Domestic drama-cum-sitcom about a 'domestic' who begins studying philosophy in order to better herself.
Television's first attempt to poke fun at the world of politics from within the Houses of Parliament in a situation comedy came from the pens of Vince Powell and Harry Driver.
Charles Hawtrey and Hylda Baker in a long-lost sitcom.
In the town of San Junipero, California, an introverted young girl and a free-spirited party girl strike up a powerful bond that seems to defy the laws of time
Sketch show featuring Eleanor Bron, John Bird (both of whom were credited as writers alongside Michael Frayn) and Barrie Ingham.
An eternal dreamer, Billy Fisher is a likeable North Country lad with a habit of becoming lost in his own wild imagination.
A sitcom centred round three female characters who were the only regulars in a comedy that concentrated on sibling rivalry, class distinction and a very annoying next-door neighbour.
Comedy-drama series based on the books by David Nobbs. The show starred David Jason and Gwen Taylor.
21-episode British sitcom that ran from 1978 to 1981.
Devised by Vince Powell and Harry Driver, Bless This House was a starring vehicle for Sid James that showed him in a new and unfamiliar light-as a family man.
Tom Sharpe's comic tale about the proposed construction of a motorway through an ancestral home, and the double-dealings involved.
Spin-off from 'The Army Game' - Private 'Excused Boots' Bisley and his bullying Sergeant, Claude Snudge, return to civvy life where they find employment in a Pall Mall gentleman's club called The Imperial.
1972 TV sitcom for London Weekend Television set around women workers in a sausage factory.
Spin-off from The Fenn Street Gang - Stanley Bowler is an East End villain whose social aspirations fail consistently due to his lack of ability to grasp the qualities he needs such as refinement and elegance of manner.
Includes information about programmes, news, forums, features and information for writers.
Jacko is a wisecracking house painter who enjoys life, is an incorrigible womaniser, and spends his spare time 'appreciating' the fairer sex.
A single series of seven comedies about Tom, the perennial optimist, as he wanders through life leaving chaos in his wake totally oblivious to the problems he causes for everyone.
Eighties situation comedy series for the BBC about a seemingly ordinary, contented, middle class suburban housewife who suddenly find herself plunged into the middle of a disorienting, emotionally tumultuous, mid-life crisis.
Four one-off specials produced for Thames Television made in 1969, 1970, 1972 and 1973.
One of the very earliest situation comedy successes for the fledgling Channel 4.
Situation comedy produced for Channel 4 by Hat Trick Productions.
Sid James in his first TV series after Hancock. Written by Galton and Simpson.
John Sullivan's television scriptwriting debut concerned the exploits of would-be Marxist, Wolfie Smith, and the activities of his four-man revolutionary party, the Tooting Popular Front.
Ronnie Barker plays a short sighted delivery man who falls in love with a maid and moves to the country with her.
When his stately home runs into financial trouble, Lord Bleasham needs to find a way to raise funds without his daughter finding out.
Television's first attempt at making a sitcom set during the War years.
A housewife wins a prize to visit a spaceship. While she is there, it spontaneously goes into orbit
Series of unrelated one-off comedies used to showcase the talents of both writers old and new to television -as well as established and up-and-coming sitcom stars
Sketch show featuring the incomparable Bernard Cribbins in which he portrays a variety of characters
Sitcom produced by Granada Television for the ITV network between 1975 and 1977
Poorly received sitcom by Johnny Speight who attempted to highlight the stupidity of racism.
Sitcom written by 2point4 Children writer Andrew Marshall and centres on the generation gap relationship between father and son
Popular award winning sketch and stand-up comedy that often courted controversy for tackling taboo subjects.
Episode and cast lists for a number of sitcoms including Are You Being Served and It Ain't Half Hot Mum.
Classic British sitcom set in a Peckham barber shop, which is a gathering place for an assortment of local characters
BBC televisions longest running sketch-show, running as it did from 1963 until 1981
ITV sitcom. 116 episodes (9 series), 1960 - 1968.
Working class sitcoms come few and far between, and 'dinnerladies' is one of the more relatable and bittersweet of them all.
Hospital comedy based on Richard Gordon's series of books, which had previously been adapted for the cinema starting with a 1954 production starring Dirk Bogarde.
This production, written especially for television by Anton Delmar, was part of a season of comedies for Armchair Theatre.
Sitcom starring Reg Varney as a porter in Billingsgate fish market
Sitcom made by Granada Television for ITV​, which starred Bryan Pringle,
Sitcom written by Eric Chappell and Jean Warr that aired on ITV from 1984 to 1986 and made by Yorkshire Television.
Based on an Edgar Wallace created character this 1957/8 sitcom starred Charlie Chester as the Cockney racing tipster 'Educated' Evans.
27 half hour TV shows were made for ITV, scripted by Ronald Chesney and Marty Feldman.
Sketch show with a mixture of Pythonesque humour and satire.
A handsome, sexy and completely amoral young man, joins Kath's household as a lodger and proceeds to manipulate her and her brother. Joe Orton's play made its television debut almost a year after the author was bludgeoned to death by his partner.
Top 10 guests from the years of both The Morecambe and Wise Show and its predecessor from ATV days by Brian Slade.
Written by Eric Barker and debuted on 10 October 1951.
Canadian husband and wife team Bernard Braden and Barbara Kelly in domestic bliss.
Television sitcom which ran on BBC1 between 1984 and 1989
Two of British comedy's most popular stars came together for this highly original and cleverly written series.
Jimmy Edwards series of one-off sitcoms.
Generation gap comedy starring middle-aged divorcee Patrick Glover, who is left to bring up his two teenage daughters in trendy Hampstead when his wife, Barbara, runs off to marry his best friend.
An ageing cricketer's last match is marred by his poor final innings, but the arrival of his pretentious, sport-hating son brightens the day in Terence Rattigan's debut television comedy.
BAFTA Award winning comedy starring Judy Dench and her real-life husband Michael Williams, who play an unlikely couple that come together to form an unmarried union.
960s comedy that was heavily influenced by the Will Hay comedy Where's That Fire? that had been shot twenty-five years earlier at the same Elstree studio.
A one-off comedy show that reunited two of the regulars from That Was The Week That Was.
British comic drama written by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge , which first appeared on BBC Three in July 2016.
Production revolving around the mishaps and primary school politics of a class of seven-year-olds as they put on their school Nativity play.
Gentle comedy series of the boy-meets-girl variety with a unique twist in that the boy and girl in question were both in their seventies.
Victorian comedy series starring Jimmy Edwards as James Fossett, a writer of "penny dreadfuls"
First British sitcom on television to feature an all Black cast, among them a young, up-and-coming Lenny Henry .
Comedy television series created by brothers Brian Gleeson and Domhnall Gleeson, and Michael Moloney.
comedy television show written by James Corden and Ruth Jones about two families: one in Billericay, Essex; one in Barry.
Domestic sitcom about a work-shy husband and his sex-starved, upwardly aspiring but ultimately frustrated wife.
Classic sitcom starring Sid James as an over-amorous handyman who wants his boss to employ a 'dolly-bird' housekeeper, but ends up with a 'dragon' (Peggy Mount).
1955 and a motley crew of draftees are enlisted into the RAF to do their National Service with comedic consequences.
Alison and Mike think their cash troubles are over when a distant relative bequeaths them a sprawling country estate. There's one catch: The old house is haunted by the ghosts of its former inhabitants.
Stately Motley Hall has been the ancestral home of the Uproar family since the 16th Century and they refuse to leave.
Directed by David Askey. With Richard O'Sullivan, John Wells, Joanna Van Gyseghem, and Janet Key.
Two married women, one with her head in the clouds and the other with her feet on the ground, decide it's time their husbands took more notice of them.
This BBC comedy revealing the secret lives of the gnomes was written by Jimmy Perry and was supposedly a satirical look at the controversies surrounding a number of issues at the time including Britain's entry into the Common Market
Series that followed the exploits of Norman Stanley Fletcher after he was released from Slade Prison at the end of his five-year sentence
Comedy television series of seven episodes, which first aired from 28 January to 11 March 1982.
Grace Brothers pension fund has been plundered and all that is left for the staff’s retirement is a rundown country house hotel, left to them in a will.
It's not every day you have a weekend in Paris, especially when you know Wales is going to win - no question about it.
Sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television that aired on ITV from 29 April 1983 to 21 December 1984.
Ronnie Barker starred in this sitcom as Lord Rustless, an ageing but perennial scatterbrain.
Guests invited for the weekend by the irresponsible Bliss family find themselves involved in a series of embarrassing and comic situations in what has been described as Noël Coward’s best play.
1990s sitcom in which the doctors in Surgical B try to provide the best service for patients while they are in a constant battle with the stringent management who cut back in order to save money.
Long running radio comedy transferred to television
One-off 30 minute sitcom broadcast as part of the Comedy Playhouse series on 10 January 1964.
Fun and laughter in a British holiday camp
Role reversal comedy starring Ronald Lewis as Rupert Sherwin.
The first television adaptation of Harold Brighouse's black comedy.
Generation gap comedy series by Eric Chappell
The Crucible is a new muck-raking tabloid newspaper in London and managing editor Russell Spam is always on the lookout for the latest dirt and gossip.
Donald Churchill's third light-hearted comedy for Armchair Theatrein 1964 starred Harry H. Corbett and also saw the television debut of Diana Rigg.
Pioneering comedy sketch show starring Terry-Thomas.
Frankie Howerd in a series of three shows written by Eric Sykes.
Popular long-running comedy series starring former stage partners Hugh Lloyd and Terry Scott as a type of modern day Laurel and Hardy double-act.
Early Spike Milligan series featuring his usual off-the-wall madcap humour.
Improvised comedy sketch show.
A widowed woman and her hapless nephew takes charge of her husband's funeral business.
The misadventures of four teenage pupils at the fictional Rudge Park Comprehensive who are not exactly among the social outcasts, but nowhere near smooth enough to hang out with the cool kids
Comedy series which originally aired on ITV in two series between 1968 and 1970.
A concert party in India in 1945 are bullied by a loud mouthed Sergeant Major in this classic British sitcom
It Ain't Half Hot Mum fan site. Details on actors, episodes, and bloopers.
Comedy double-act Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warris star in a sitcom about a couple running a small general store.
Former Goon Michael Bentine in a surreal sketch show; combining satire, zany slapstick and animated models.
Marty Feldman in a series of madcap sketches
Debut starring series for Liverpudlian comic Jimmy Tarbuck, following his success on Sunday Night At The London Palladium
Commercial Television's first home-grown sitcom
Witty banter and comedic situations as girl meets boy - except this is the boy who had jilted her at the altar five years previously.
Dudley Rush is a cartoonist, but not one that is particularly thrilled about his career. At 45 years old he spends his time drawing, or putting off drawing, a newspaper strip called Barney the Bionic Bulldog.
Classic sitcom about a family that is ruled over by their overbearing mother.
An uncouth boiler maker inherits a stately home
Sitcom about a young woman's struggle to adapt to life after being left by her partner.
Warwick Davis stars as a showbiz dwarf in this comedy written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.
A Sharply scripted comedy of character and wryly observed social change both series held a perceptively laughter gilded mirror to the changing face of the work-deprived industrial North East and of British society during the middle nineteen-sixties and early seventies.
Sitcom starring David Kossoff as a wise but stubborn furniture maker who resists his son's attempts at modernisation.
Comedy series about two girls who share a flat in Liverpool
sitcom written by Jimmy Perry and produced by ATV Midlands.
Comedy sketch show in which the host poked fun at a number of British institutions
Terry-Thomas, made his ITV drama debut on 3 January 1960 in the ABC Armchair Theatre presentation Lord Arthur Saville's Crime, which was based on a short story by Oscar Wilde.
Sitcom about a jazz musician with a frantic love life, written for Michael Medwin.
Sitcom by Jack Rosenthal, starring Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox as a courting couple
Shorty Mepstead, a South-East Londoner who lives at home with his mum, is in love with his brother's girlfriend.
Comedy starring Ronnie Barker in a series of scripts from the pen of Roy Clarke.
A male student shares a flat with two attractive girls with hilarious consequences.
Patricia Routledge in her first starring comedy role as Marjorie Belton who, despite a bitter and hurtful divorce, is still hoping to find the type of romance one would only come across in a Mills and Boon novel.
Marital ups and downs of a newly-wed couple starring Richard Briers and Prunella Scales
A series of seven stand-alone comedies featuring some of Britain's best sitcom writers and performers.
Middle aged man meets young school teacher and they fall in love much to the dismay of both their families.
Domestic sitcom about a loving married couple.
When his ambition to skipper an ocean-going liner is scuppered, Captain Biskett has to make do with a small and battered cargo ship.
The misadventures of a gambling streetwise Cockney wide-boy who manages to survive on his wits and ‘gift of the gab’
Holds the record for the biggest audience for a single light entertainment broadcast.
Sitcom written by and starring comedian Miranda Hart.
A collaborative website for the BBC comedy series Miranda.
ATV sitcom series starring Ronald Fraser, Patrick Newell and Simon Ward. It was written by Roy Clarke and was broadcast from 1970 to 1971
Adapted from Oxford law graduate A.P. Herbert's collection of legal absurdities which first saw print in 'Punch' magazine in 1924 and were later released over six books
A series of shows starring arguably cinema's most famous Fagin
Sketches, stand-up comedy and musical numbers featuring Britain's best loved double-act.
Reunited Peter Jones and Sheila Hancock, two of the most popular characters from the hit sitcom The Rag Trade
An eccentric old man finds that he bumbles through every task he is set.
Starring vehicle for Harry H Corbett in an attempt to break away from his most renowned role as Harold Steptoe.
Cleaning woman is left a fortune by her ex-employer.
Wife is compulsive charity worker much to her husband's frustration.
A valet tries mad money making schemes to recapture past glory for his employer.
Sitcom starring Clive Dunn as retired and embittered engine driver Sam Cobbett.
A middle-aged man, still living at home with his mother, is completely under her thumb.
A recently divorced couple inadvertently purchase cottages next door to each other.
Brother and sister inherit a run-down pickling factory.
One of the first sitcoms to appear on the newly formed London Weekend Television network in 1968.
Sitcom about two East London based tailors; one Irish the other Jewish.
Antique dealers Simon Peel and Oliver Smallbridge were once partners until Oliver had an affair with Simon's wife. Now they are bitter rivals - and next-door neighbours.
First starring vehicle for Ronnie Corbett who plays a little man with big ambitions.
Arthur and Beryl Crabtree planned for a quiet life once their children had left home, or so they thought
Take a trip to the Great House at Crinkley Bottom with this essential Saturday night viewing.
Reluctant landlady Nellie Pickersgill is summoned down from Bolton to Fulham to run "The Brown Cow" on behalf of her father in his hour of need.
Popular TV series starring Bill Maynard, one of the most prolific character actors on British television
Brother Dominic, a novice monk, is let loose in a monastery
A hit with its pilot show, its viewing figures unrivalled for a new comedy for some years afterwards.
Skiving London bus driver and his conductor try to score but have no success with women.
Sitcom starring Dennis Waterman as self-made millionaire Tony Carpenter who struggles in the circles of high society.
Set in an NHS hospital where the same three seemingly permanent patients, all congenital hypochondriacs, are forever playing a game of one-upmanship with each other
Rich politician Charles Latimer (Sir John Standing) falls in love with working-class model Lorraine Watts (Lorraine Chase).
A group of people pool their resources to purchase a house.
Light hearted comedy about a country vicar and his day-to-day exploits as he wove his way in and out of the lives of his parishioners.
Television comedy-drama series ran from 8 December 1989 to 6 August 1993. Made by Yorkshire Television.
The brainchild of East London child prodigy Anthony Newley, the idea for the show was developed in partnership with Morecambe and Wise scriptwriters Dick Hills and Sid Green
Satirical black comedy television series produced for Channel 5 and Paramount Comedy by Feelgood Fiction in association with Oxygen
Sitcom that aired on BBC 1 from 1972 to 1979. Starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques
Comedian Ted Ray presented selections from his stand-up comedy routine and a series of sketches.
Puppet version of radio's immortal Goon Show written by Spike Milligan and voiced by the original show's members.
Television sitcom, which was broadcast on BBC1 from 1979 to 1987.
Set in the 1940s in Winston Churchill's secret underground bunker. Frankie Howerd plays a soldier named Private Potts
A live television play set in a luxurious West End flat. Broadcast in 1951.
ITV sitcom from the prolific writing team of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
Comedy series that chronicled the merry misadventures of the employees of a London based TV sales and repair shop.
Paranormal comedy series, released exclusively on Amazon Prime.
BBC series from 1987. The six-part series tells the story of legendary Scottish rock band The Majestics.
60-minute comedy broadcast on 23 April 1966 at 10.15pm as an Armchair Theatre presentation.
1950's comedy series from the pens of Denis Norden and Frank Muir and starring Jimmy Edwards.
A collaborative website for the BBC comedy series Miranda.
In the town of San Junipero, California, an introverted young girl and a free-spirited party girl strike up a powerful bond that seems to defy the laws of time
Top 10 guests from the years of both The Morecambe and Wise Show and its predecessor from ATV days by Brian Slade.
Jacko is a wisecracking house painter who enjoys life, is an incorrigible womaniser, and spends his spare time 'appreciating' the fairer sex.
Sketch show featuring the incomparable Bernard Cribbins in which he portrays a variety of characters
Sitcom starring Reg Varney as a porter in Billingsgate fish market
The misadventures of four teenage pupils at the fictional Rudge Park Comprehensive who are not exactly among the social outcasts, but nowhere near smooth enough to hang out with the cool kids
Comedy series that chronicled the merry misadventures of the employees of a London based TV sales and repair shop.
Classic British sitcom set in a Peckham barber shop, which is a gathering place for an assortment of local characters
A live television play set in a luxurious West End flat. Broadcast in 1951.
ITV sitcom from the prolific writing team of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
Set in the 1940s in Winston Churchill's secret underground bunker. Frankie Howerd plays a soldier named Private Potts
Television sitcom, which was broadcast on BBC1 from 1979 to 1987.
Sitcom that aired on BBC 1 from 1972 to 1979. Starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques
Comedian Ted Ray presented selections from his stand-up comedy routine and a series of sketches.
Television comedy-drama series ran from 8 December 1989 to 6 August 1993. Made by Yorkshire Television.
Satirical black comedy television series produced for Channel 5 and Paramount Comedy by Feelgood Fiction in association with Oxygen
1950's comedy series from the pens of Denis Norden and Frank Muir and starring Jimmy Edwards.
60-minute comedy broadcast on 23 April 1966 at 10.15pm as an Armchair Theatre presentation.
Paranormal comedy series, released exclusively on Amazon Prime.
BBC series from 1987. The six-part series tells the story of legendary Scottish rock band The Majestics.
Rich politician Charles Latimer (Sir John Standing) falls in love with working-class model Lorraine Watts (Lorraine Chase).
Sitcom starring Clive Dunn as retired and embittered engine driver Sam Cobbett.
ATV sitcom series starring Ronald Fraser, Patrick Newell and Simon Ward. It was written by Roy Clarke and was broadcast from 1970 to 1971
Sitcom written by and starring comedian Miranda Hart.
Sitcom by Jack Rosenthal, starring Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox as a courting couple
Puppet version of radio's immortal Goon Show written by Spike Milligan and voiced by the original show's members.
Sitcom about a jazz musician with a frantic love life, written for Michael Medwin.
sitcom written by Jimmy Perry and produced by ATV Midlands.
Debut starring series for Liverpudlian comic Jimmy Tarbuck, following his success on Sunday Night At The London Palladium
The brainchild of East London child prodigy Anthony Newley, the idea for the show was developed in partnership with Morecambe and Wise scriptwriters Dick Hills and Sid Green
Comedy series which originally aired on ITV in two series between 1968 and 1970.
Sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television that aired on ITV from 29 April 1983 to 21 December 1984.
Comedy television series of seven episodes, which first aired from 28 January to 11 March 1982.
comedy television show written by James Corden and Ruth Jones about two families: one in Billericay, Essex; one in Barry.
Directed by David Askey. With Richard O'Sullivan, John Wells, Joanna Van Gyseghem, and Janet Key.
First British sitcom on television to feature an all Black cast, among them a young, up-and-coming Lenny Henry .
Television sitcom which ran on BBC1 between 1984 and 1989
Sitcom written by Eric Chappell and Jean Warr that aired on ITV from 1984 to 1986 and made by Yorkshire Television.
Written by Eric Barker and debuted on 10 October 1951.
ITV sitcom. 116 episodes (9 series), 1960 - 1968.
Sitcom made by Granada Television for ITV​, which starred Bryan Pringle,
This production, written especially for television by Anton Delmar, was part of a season of comedies for Armchair Theatre.
Sitcom produced by Granada Television for the ITV network between 1975 and 1977
Situation comedy produced for Channel 4 by Hat Trick Productions.
Four one-off specials produced for Thames Television made in 1969, 1970, 1972 and 1973.
1972 TV sitcom for London Weekend Television set around women workers in a sausage factory.
Comedy-drama series based on the books by David Nobbs. The show starred David Jason and Gwen Taylor.
21-episode British sitcom that ran from 1978 to 1981.
Comedy television series created by brothers Brian Gleeson and Domhnall Gleeson, and Michael Moloney.
Comedy television show starring Benny Hill that aired in various forms between 15 January 1955 and 1 May 1989
Satirical television show made by David Frost's company, Paradine Productions in association with Rediffusion London
Television sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1965 to 1966.
Black-and-white television series that aired on ITV in 1960. Starring Arthur Askey.
Television programme, broadcast once only in the United Kingdom in 1977, and later broadcast in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, as a fictional hoax
Sitcom that aired on ITV from 1988 to 1992. Starring Prunella Scales and Joan Sanderson.
Sketch comedy television series starring Robbie Coltrane, Ben Elton, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Siobhan Redmond and Emma Thompson
Television ecclesiastical sitcom which aired on BBC1 from 1966 to 1971.
Television sitcom based on the French and Saunders sketch, "Modern Mother and Daughter".
A group of people pool their resources to purchase a house.
Light hearted comedy about a country vicar and his day-to-day exploits as he wove his way in and out of the lives of his parishioners.
Set in an NHS hospital where the same three seemingly permanent patients, all congenital hypochondriacs, are forever playing a game of one-upmanship with each other
A hit with its pilot show, its viewing figures unrivalled for a new comedy for some years afterwards.
Skiving London bus driver and his conductor try to score but have no success with women.
Sitcom starring Dennis Waterman as self-made millionaire Tony Carpenter who struggles in the circles of high society.
Popular TV series starring Bill Maynard, one of the most prolific character actors on British television
Reluctant landlady Nellie Pickersgill is summoned down from Bolton to Fulham to run "The Brown Cow" on behalf of her father in his hour of need.
Brother Dominic, a novice monk, is let loose in a monastery
Take a trip to the Great House at Crinkley Bottom with this essential Saturday night viewing.
First starring vehicle for Ronnie Corbett who plays a little man with big ambitions.
Arthur and Beryl Crabtree planned for a quiet life once their children had left home, or so they thought
Antique dealers Simon Peel and Oliver Smallbridge were once partners until Oliver had an affair with Simon's wife. Now they are bitter rivals - and next-door neighbours.
Sitcom about two East London based tailors; one Irish the other Jewish.
One of the first sitcoms to appear on the newly formed London Weekend Television network in 1968.
A recently divorced couple inadvertently purchase cottages next door to each other.
Wife is compulsive charity worker much to her husband's frustration.
A middle-aged man, still living at home with his mother, is completely under her thumb.
Brother and sister inherit a run-down pickling factory.
A valet tries mad money making schemes to recapture past glory for his employer.
An eccentric old man finds that he bumbles through every task he is set.
Starring vehicle for Harry H Corbett in an attempt to break away from his most renowned role as Harold Steptoe.
Cleaning woman is left a fortune by her ex-employer.
Reunited Peter Jones and Sheila Hancock, two of the most popular characters from the hit sitcom The Rag Trade
Sketches, stand-up comedy and musical numbers featuring Britain's best loved double-act.
A series of shows starring arguably cinema's most famous Fagin
Adapted from Oxford law graduate A.P. Herbert's collection of legal absurdities which first saw print in 'Punch' magazine in 1924 and were later released over six books
The misadventures of a gambling streetwise Cockney wide-boy who manages to survive on his wits and ‘gift of the gab’
Holds the record for the biggest audience for a single light entertainment broadcast.
When his ambition to skipper an ocean-going liner is scuppered, Captain Biskett has to make do with a small and battered cargo ship.
Middle aged man meets young school teacher and they fall in love much to the dismay of both their families.
Domestic sitcom about a loving married couple.
A series of seven stand-alone comedies featuring some of Britain's best sitcom writers and performers.
Marital ups and downs of a newly-wed couple starring Richard Briers and Prunella Scales
Patricia Routledge in her first starring comedy role as Marjorie Belton who, despite a bitter and hurtful divorce, is still hoping to find the type of romance one would only come across in a Mills and Boon novel.
A male student shares a flat with two attractive girls with hilarious consequences.
Comedy starring Ronnie Barker in a series of scripts from the pen of Roy Clarke.
Shorty Mepstead, a South-East Londoner who lives at home with his mum, is in love with his brother's girlfriend.
Sitcom starring David Kossoff as a wise but stubborn furniture maker who resists his son's attempts at modernisation.
Terry-Thomas, made his ITV drama debut on 3 January 1960 in the ABC Armchair Theatre presentation Lord Arthur Saville's Crime, which was based on a short story by Oscar Wilde.
Comedy sketch show in which the host poked fun at a number of British institutions
Sitcom about a young woman's struggle to adapt to life after being left by her partner.
Comedy series about two girls who share a flat in Liverpool
Warwick Davis stars as a showbiz dwarf in this comedy written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.
A Sharply scripted comedy of character and wryly observed social change both series held a perceptively laughter gilded mirror to the changing face of the work-deprived industrial North East and of British society during the middle nineteen-sixties and early seventies.
An uncouth boiler maker inherits a stately home
Classic sitcom about a family that is ruled over by their overbearing mother.
Dudley Rush is a cartoonist, but not one that is particularly thrilled about his career. At 45 years old he spends his time drawing, or putting off drawing, a newspaper strip called Barney the Bionic Bulldog.
Witty banter and comedic situations as girl meets boy - except this is the boy who had jilted her at the altar five years previously.
Commercial Television's first home-grown sitcom
Comedy double-act Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warris star in a sitcom about a couple running a small general store.
Former Goon Michael Bentine in a surreal sketch show; combining satire, zany slapstick and animated models.
Marty Feldman in a series of madcap sketches
A concert party in India in 1945 are bullied by a loud mouthed Sergeant Major in this classic British sitcom
A widowed woman and her hapless nephew takes charge of her husband's funeral business.
Frankie Howerd in a series of three shows written by Eric Sykes.
Improvised comedy sketch show.
Pioneering comedy sketch show starring Terry-Thomas.
Early Spike Milligan series featuring his usual off-the-wall madcap humour.
Popular long-running comedy series starring former stage partners Hugh Lloyd and Terry Scott as a type of modern day Laurel and Hardy double-act.
The Crucible is a new muck-raking tabloid newspaper in London and managing editor Russell Spam is always on the lookout for the latest dirt and gossip.
Generation gap comedy series by Eric Chappell
Donald Churchill's third light-hearted comedy for Armchair Theatrein 1964 starred Harry H. Corbett and also saw the television debut of Diana Rigg.
Role reversal comedy starring Ronald Lewis as Rupert Sherwin.
The first television adaptation of Harold Brighouse's black comedy.
Fun and laughter in a British holiday camp
One-off 30 minute sitcom broadcast as part of the Comedy Playhouse series on 10 January 1964.
Long running radio comedy transferred to television
1990s sitcom in which the doctors in Surgical B try to provide the best service for patients while they are in a constant battle with the stringent management who cut back in order to save money.
Guests invited for the weekend by the irresponsible Bliss family find themselves involved in a series of embarrassing and comic situations in what has been described as Noël Coward’s best play.
Ronnie Barker starred in this sitcom as Lord Rustless, an ageing but perennial scatterbrain.
It's not every day you have a weekend in Paris, especially when you know Wales is going to win - no question about it.
Grace Brothers pension fund has been plundered and all that is left for the staff’s retirement is a rundown country house hotel, left to them in a will.
Series that followed the exploits of Norman Stanley Fletcher after he was released from Slade Prison at the end of his five-year sentence
Stately Motley Hall has been the ancestral home of the Uproar family since the 16th Century and they refuse to leave.
Two married women, one with her head in the clouds and the other with her feet on the ground, decide it's time their husbands took more notice of them.
This BBC comedy revealing the secret lives of the gnomes was written by Jimmy Perry and was supposedly a satirical look at the controversies surrounding a number of issues at the time including Britain's entry into the Common Market
Alison and Mike think their cash troubles are over when a distant relative bequeaths them a sprawling country estate. There's one catch: The old house is haunted by the ghosts of its former inhabitants.
Classic sitcom starring Sid James as an over-amorous handyman who wants his boss to employ a 'dolly-bird' housekeeper, but ends up with a 'dragon' (Peggy Mount).
1955 and a motley crew of draftees are enlisted into the RAF to do their National Service with comedic consequences.
Domestic sitcom about a work-shy husband and his sex-starved, upwardly aspiring but ultimately frustrated wife.
One of the very earliest situation comedy successes for the fledgling Channel 4.
Gentle comedy series of the boy-meets-girl variety with a unique twist in that the boy and girl in question were both in their seventies.
Victorian comedy series starring Jimmy Edwards as James Fossett, a writer of "penny dreadfuls"
Production revolving around the mishaps and primary school politics of a class of seven-year-olds as they put on their school Nativity play.
British comic drama written by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge , which first appeared on BBC Three in July 2016.
960s comedy that was heavily influenced by the Will Hay comedy Where's That Fire? that had been shot twenty-five years earlier at the same Elstree studio.
A one-off comedy show that reunited two of the regulars from That Was The Week That Was.
BAFTA Award winning comedy starring Judy Dench and her real-life husband Michael Williams, who play an unlikely couple that come together to form an unmarried union.
An ageing cricketer's last match is marred by his poor final innings, but the arrival of his pretentious, sport-hating son brightens the day in Terence Rattigan's debut television comedy.
Jimmy Edwards series of one-off sitcoms.
Two of British comedy's most popular stars came together for this highly original and cleverly written series.
Generation gap comedy starring middle-aged divorcee Patrick Glover, who is left to bring up his two teenage daughters in trendy Hampstead when his wife, Barbara, runs off to marry his best friend.
Sketch show with a mixture of Pythonesque humour and satire.
27 half hour TV shows were made for ITV, scripted by Ronald Chesney and Marty Feldman.
A handsome, sexy and completely amoral young man, joins Kath's household as a lodger and proceeds to manipulate her and her brother. Joe Orton's play made its television debut almost a year after the author was bludgeoned to death by his partner.
Based on an Edgar Wallace created character this 1957/8 sitcom starred Charlie Chester as the Cockney racing tipster 'Educated' Evans.
Hospital comedy based on Richard Gordon's series of books, which had previously been adapted for the cinema starting with a 1954 production starring Dirk Bogarde.
Working class sitcoms come few and far between, and 'dinnerladies' is one of the more relatable and bittersweet of them all.
BBC televisions longest running sketch-show, running as it did from 1963 until 1981
Popular award winning sketch and stand-up comedy that often courted controversy for tackling taboo subjects.
Sitcom written by 2point4 Children writer Andrew Marshall and centres on the generation gap relationship between father and son
Poorly received sitcom by Johnny Speight who attempted to highlight the stupidity of racism.
Series of unrelated one-off comedies used to showcase the talents of both writers old and new to television -as well as established and up-and-coming sitcom stars
A housewife wins a prize to visit a spaceship. While she is there, it spontaneously goes into orbit
Television's first attempt at making a sitcom set during the War years.
John Sullivan's television scriptwriting debut concerned the exploits of would-be Marxist, Wolfie Smith, and the activities of his four-man revolutionary party, the Tooting Popular Front.
When his stately home runs into financial trouble, Lord Bleasham needs to find a way to raise funds without his daughter finding out.
Ronnie Barker plays a short sighted delivery man who falls in love with a maid and moves to the country with her.
Sid James in his first TV series after Hancock. Written by Galton and Simpson.
A single series of seven comedies about Tom, the perennial optimist, as he wanders through life leaving chaos in his wake totally oblivious to the problems he causes for everyone.
Eighties situation comedy series for the BBC about a seemingly ordinary, contented, middle class suburban housewife who suddenly find herself plunged into the middle of a disorienting, emotionally tumultuous, mid-life crisis.
Spin-off from The Fenn Street Gang - Stanley Bowler is an East End villain whose social aspirations fail consistently due to his lack of ability to grasp the qualities he needs such as refinement and elegance of manner.
Spin-off from 'The Army Game' - Private 'Excused Boots' Bisley and his bullying Sergeant, Claude Snudge, return to civvy life where they find employment in a Pall Mall gentleman's club called The Imperial.
Tom Sharpe's comic tale about the proposed construction of a motorway through an ancestral home, and the double-dealings involved.
An eternal dreamer, Billy Fisher is a likeable North Country lad with a habit of becoming lost in his own wild imagination.
Charles Hawtrey and Hylda Baker in a long-lost sitcom.
Domestic drama-cum-sitcom about a 'domestic' who begins studying philosophy in order to better herself.
Devised by Vince Powell and Harry Driver, Bless This House was a starring vehicle for Sid James that showed him in a new and unfamiliar light-as a family man.
Television's first attempt to poke fun at the world of politics from within the Houses of Parliament in a situation comedy came from the pens of Vince Powell and Harry Driver.
Sketch show featuring Eleanor Bron, John Bird (both of whom were credited as writers alongside Michael Frayn) and Barrie Ingham.
A sitcom centred round three female characters who were the only regulars in a comedy that concentrated on sibling rivalry, class distinction and a very annoying next-door neighbour.
A one-off special featuring a series of sketches portraying the eccentricities of the British courtesy of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
Followed a selection of characters on their holiday at an all-inclusive hotel in Benidorm called the Solana.
A 'keeping up with the Joneses sitcom starring Reg Varney and Pat Combs
This first-rate costume satire from the BBC was an adaptation of Anthony Trollope's first two tales of fictional Barsetshire, and a quiet Victorian city (Barchester) where Septimus Harding resides.
A married couple's uneasy attempt to adjust to married life after years apart.
Britain's foremost sketch-show comedian of the early 1960s in his own series.
Almost a direct follow on from the BBC's popular Not In Front Of The Children starring Wendy Craig
Canadian husband and wife team Bernard Braden and Barbara Kelly in domestic bliss.
Hugely successful series from Granada TV that started in 1957 as a fortnightly live sitcom, which was moved to a weekly spot when it became so popular. The series followed the misfortunes of a mixed bag of army conscripts.
Six episode series developed for television by Paul Mayhew-Archer from his own BBC Radio 2 series.
Beryl Reid and Richard O'Sullivan in a typical early 70s sitcom.
Alfred Marks starring comedy vehicle produced by Yorkshire Television.
British sketch comedy show that followed hot on the heels of Not The Nine O'Clock News which also featured the programme's stars, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones.
Sitcom following the adventures of a retired Army Brigadier, Garnet Wellington-Bull, a widowed career soldier who, now retired, is trying to come to terms with life on civvy street but not finding it very easy.
A series of 12 unconnected half-hour sitcoms, all written by different writers, created as a starring vehicle for Maureen Lipman.
Subtitled 'A Bryan's Eye View on the World', and was a starring vehicle for Southport born actress/comedienne Dora Bryan
Episode and cast lists for a number of sitcoms including Are You Being Served and It Ain't Half Hot Mum.
Sitcom starring Miranda Hart. Episodes, clips and gallery.
It Ain't Half Hot Mum fan site. Details on actors, episodes, and bloopers.
Includes information about programmes, news, forums, features and information for writers.
Includes information on BBC comedy TV shows. Also includes information on "big shows" that are running on BBC television.
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