IT WAS the moment that changed British TV comedy forever: 10pm, February 24th 1956, when Associated-Rediffusion, in all their independent majesty, let...
A GREAT big, sprawling, ill-disciplined countercultural satire adapted by Terry Southern and Joe McGrath from Southern’s own novel, this is possibly the...
Look out chaps, it's one of those portmanteau comedy jobbies.
Adam Faith searches for the Loch Ness monster (and, yes, sings the eponymous theme song) in the sort of fantasy comedy only...
The Salkind brothers made this version starring Michael ‘Logan’ York as D’Artagnan, Richard ‘Island Son’ Chamberlain as Aramis, Frank ‘turkeys’ Finlay as...
We were going to use this billing to witter on about how Graham Chapman’s A Liar’s Autobiography seems to have snuck back...
Rum, stand-alone wartime comedy about a bunch of convalescents – colonel John Le Mesurier, one-handed Frenchman Gregoire ‘Crooks in Cloisters’ Aslan, romantic...
Macabre anthology sitcom from Week Ending mainstays Ian Brown and James Hendrie
The film of the book of the war! Struggling manfully to match the genius of the book this doesn’t quite make it...
RUMPUS-ROUSING MILLIGANISM
CHRISTMAS TELLY staple for the entire late seventies
MILLIGAN MULLARKEY which bemused most (including the Beeb) but delighted enough to keep it being recommissioned despite the same things showing up...
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