British Comedy Guide
British Comedy Guide
Up Pompeii. Image shows from L to R: Ammonia (Barbara Murray), Lurcio (Frankie Howerd), Ludicrus Sextus (Michael Hordern). Copyright: Associated London Films Limited
Up Pompeii

Up Pompeii

  • 1971 film

Classic British farce in which Roman slave Lurcio unwittingly gains possession of a list of people who are conspiring to bring down the Emperor Nero. Stars Frankie Howerd, Patrick Cargill, Bill Fraser, Michael Hordern, Barbara Murray and more.

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The Up Pompeii! Family

A number of popular comedies starring Frankie Howerd, based on the format first established in Up Pompeii!.

Up Pompeii!. Lurcio (Frankie Howerd). Copyright: BBC / London Weekend Television TV

Up Pompeii!

Frankie Howerd starrs as Lurcio, a Roman slave in Pompeii, serving senator Ludicrus Sextus and his family.

Up The Chastity Belt. Lurkalot (Frankie Howerd). Copyright: Associated London Films Limited Film

Up The Chastity Belt

Film in which Frankie Howerd joins the Crusades to save his master and bring King Richard back to take his rightful place on the throne of England.

Whoops Baghdad. Ali Oopla (Frankie Howerd). Copyright: BBC TV

Whoops Baghdad

Frankie Howerd is Ali Oopla, servant to the Wazir of Baghdad, in this double entendre-laden sitcom.

Then Churchill Said To Me. Private Potts (Frankie Howerd). Copyright: BBC TV

Then Churchill Said To Me

Frankie Howerd sitcom, bringing the much-loved Up Pompeii! format up to the Second World War.

Titter Ye Not: The Frankie Howerd Story. Frankie Howerd. Copyright: Unique Productions Radio

Titter Ye Not: The Frankie Howerd Story

A one-hour Radio 2 documentary on the life and work of Frankie Howerd.

Frankie Howerd. Frankie Howerd. Copyright: BBC TV

Frankie Howerd

Sketch and stand-up series starring inimitable comic Frankie Howerd, and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC TV

Frankie Howerd In Ulster

1973 Stand-Up

Francis Howerd In Concert. Frankie Howerd. Copyright: Yorkshire Television TV

Francis Howerd In Concert

Variety special hosted by and starring Frankie Howerd.

Up The Front. Image shows from L to R: Lurk (Frankie Howerd), Groping (Bill Fraser). Copyright: Associated London Films Limited / STUDIOCANAL Film

Up The Front

Frankie Howerd plays a servant who is hypnotised into believing that he is the only man who can save England during World War I.

A Touch Of The Casanovas. Fransisco (Frankie Howerd). Copyright: Thames Television TV

A Touch Of The Casanovas

When Fransisco (Frankie Howerd), body servant to Giacomo Casanova, swaps identities with his master, trouble is bound to follow.

Sex, Secrets & Frankie Howerd. Frankie Howerd. Copyright: Visual Voodoo Films TV

Sex, Secrets & Frankie Howerd

Documentary looking at Frankie Howerd's controversial private life. Howerd risked his career in his pursuit of young male lovers.

Sex And The Sitcom. Copyright: Crocodile Media TV

Sex And The Sitcom

Documentary examining how society's attitudes towards sex and sexuality since the 1950s have been reflected in sitcom.

BBC Two TV

Crumpet! A Very British Sex Symbol

Documentary that charts that peculiarly British notion of 'crumpet' on TV and in film from the 1950s right through to the late 1980s.

Chelmsford 123. Image shows from L to R: Aulus Paulinus (Jimmy Mulville), Badvoc (Rory McGrath). Copyright: Hat Trick Productions TV

Chelmsford 123

In the year 123 AD and Aulus Paulinus finds himself appointed new governor of Britannia - to a somewhat mixed reception from the locals.

Plebs. Image shows from L to R: Jason (Jon Pointing), Grumio (Ryan Sampson), Marcus (Tom Rosenthal). Copyright: RISE Films TV

Plebs

Modern comedy set in Ancient rome, following a trio of very normal blokes who certainly won't make the history books.

The Howerd Confessions. Frankie (Frankie Howerd). Copyright: Thames Television TV

The Howerd Confessions

Comedy series starring Frankie Howerd in a series of comic playlets.

How To Survive The Roman Empire, By Pliny And Me. Copyright: BBC Radio

How To Survive The Roman Empire, By Pliny And Me

Comic drama series is based on real letters written by Pliny to his friends and colleagues in the 1st Century AD.

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