Classic TV Comedy
My absolute favourite TV Comedy shows.
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- CreatorRonald ChesneyRonald WolfeStarsPeter JonesMiriam KarlinReg VarneyFenner Fashions makes women's clothing. Reg Turner (Reg Varney) is the downtrodden foreman on the shop floor. The machinists are all women, led by their union rep, Paddy Fleming (Miriam Karlin). The stories are all about the schemes the machinists get up to to make life hard for the boss, Henry Fenner (Peter Jones). The foreman's life is also made hard by the women, who have him around their little finger. Each week there is a special order to complete, and the machinists make heavy work of things.
- StarsTony HancockSidney JamesJohnny VyvyanTV version of the popular BBC radio show of the same name, with Tony Hancock as the modern man of the world (in his own eyes). Sid James is there to bring him back to earth.
- StarsWilfrid BrambellHarry H. CorbettFrank ThorntonBritish sitcom about a father-and-son rag-and-bone business in London. The intergenerational divide between the miserly Steptoe and his ambitious son results in comedy, drama, and tragedy.
- StarsMichael BentineLeon ThauFrank ThorntonMichael Bentine's comedy sketch show which included news from the 'eight corners of the world'.
- StarsDick EmeryPat CoombsVictor MaddernComedy skits featuring the talents of Mr Dick Emery.
- StarsMarty FeldmanJohn JunkinTim Brooke-TaylorMarty is a British television sketch comedy series Starring the talented comedian Marty Feldman.
- StarsPeter CookDudley MooreChris KaranNot Only...But Also, most famously showcased Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in there so-called 'Dagenham dialogues' in which Pete (a nasal know-all who has utter confidence in his surreal and ill-informed philosophies on life) and Dud (credulous, dim-witted and scruffy) discuss all manner of subjects, bedecked in cloth caps and Macs.
- StarsEric SykesHattie JacquesRichard WattisSykes and A - follows the life and times of an immature, often clumsy twin brother and sister as they deal with their eccentric life's.