Ex-colleagues reflect on the comic genius and sometimes difficult character of Tony Hancock.

A study of the life and career of the actor Sid James, best known for the long-running Carry On series of bawdy British film comedies.

Comedy Playhouse is a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 120 episodes from 1961 to 1975. Many episodes...

This English follows the East End working-class Garnett family, headed by patriarch Alf, a reactionary working-class man who wields racist and...

This English follows the East End working-class Garnett family, headed by patriarch Alf, a reactionary working-class man who wields racist and...

A black-and-white British sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques that aired on BBC1 from 1960 to 1965. It was written by Eric Sykes, Johnny...

The Rag Trade is a British television sitcom broadcast by the BBC between 1961 and 1963 and by LWT between 1977 and 1978. The scripts were by Ronald...

The Rag Trade is a British television sitcom broadcast by the BBC between 1961 and 1963 and by LWT between 1977 and 1978. The scripts were by Ronald...

A series of one-off satirical comedies written by, and starring, John Bird, with John Fortune.

It's tough fighting a divorce but when your wife decides to show your children your sponge bag in order to promote you as being one of the three most...

Ken Archer has worked for the same company for 33 years. Then, one day, he's told that he is about to be made redundant. To make a bad day even...