British comedy in 1981

• The Cambridge Footlights (featuring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie) won the Edinburgh Comedy Award.
• The first series of Only Fools And Horses went out on television in this year

Notable comedies debuting in 1981

A Fine Romance

Game For A Laugh

Never The Twain

Only Fools And Horses

Sorry!

That's My Boy

The Kenny Everett Television Show

All new TV comedy from 1981

1. '81 Take 2
2. Agony
3. All's Well That Ends Well
4. Are You Being Served?
5. Astronauts
6. An Audience With...
7. The Bagthorpe Saga
8. Ballyskillen Opera House
9. Bavarian Night
10. Beat The Carrott
11. The Benny Hill Show
12. Big Jim And The Figaro Club
13. The Big Top Variety Show
14. Blankety Blank
15. Bless Me, Father
16. Boom Boom... Out Go The Lights
17. Cannon And Ball
18. Carrott Del Sol
19. Carry On Laughing
20. Chintz
21. Coming Home
22. Cowboys
23. The Crowther Collection
24. Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective
25. Dave Allen
26. The Dick Emery Show
27. Doctors' Daughters
28. Dodd On His Todd
29. Educating Marmalade
30. The End Of The End Of The Pier Show
31. A Fine Romance
32. Frankie Howerd Strikes Again
33. Freddie Starr On The Road
34. Fundamental Frolics
35. The Gaffer
36. Game For A Laugh
37. The Generation Game
38. Get Lost!
39. The Goodies
40. Happy Endings
41. Have I Got You... Where You Want Me?
42. Hi-De-Hi!
43. Hinge And Bracket
44. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
45. Holding The Fort
46. Honky Tonk Heroes
47. If You Go Down In The Woods Today
48. The Incredible Mr Tanner
49. It Ain't Half Hot Mum
50. It Takes A Worried Man...
51. Keep It In The Family
52. Kelly Monteith
53. The Kenny Everett Television Show
54. The Kenny Everett Video Show
55. A Kick Up The Eighties
56. The Kindness Of Mrs Radcliffe
57. Kinvig
58. Last Of The Summer Wine
59. The Last Song
60. The Les Dawson Show
61. Little And Large
62. The Little World Of Don Camillo
63. Max
64. A Midsummer Night's Dream
65. Mike Yarwood In Persons
66. Misfits
67. The Morecambe & Wise Show
68. Never The Twain
69. Not The Nine O'Clock News
70. Now For Nookie
71. The Olympian Way
72. Only Fools And Horses
73. Only When I Laugh
74. Open All Hours
75. The Other 'Arf
76. Partners
77. Pig In The Middle
78. Present Laughter
79. Private Schulz
80. Punchlines
81. Rentaghost
82. Revolting Women
83. Robin's Nest
84. Roger Doesn't Live Here Anymore
85. Roots
86. Rosie
87. Russ Abbot's Madhouse
88. Scoop
89. Seconds Out
90. A Sharp Intake Of Breath
91. Shelley
92. Shillingbury Tales
93. Sink Or Swim
94. Solo
95. Sorry!
96. Sorry, I'm A Stranger Here Myself
97. Spotlight: Eric Sykes: One Of The Great Troupers
98. Stainless Steel And The Star Spies
99. The Stanley Baxter Series
100. Take A Letter Mr. Jones...
101. Terry & June
102. That Beryl Marston...!
103. That's My Boy
104. Thicker Than Water
105. Three Of A Kind
106. Till Death....
107. To The Manor Born
108. The Two Ronnies
109. Vice Versa
110. West End Tales
111. The Winter's Tale
112. Wood And Walters
113. Worzel Gummidge
114. Yes Minister
115. Young At Heart
116. You're Only Young Twice

All new radio comedy from 1981

1. Cliché
2. Cold Comfort Farm
3. The Dumb Waiter
4. Frank Muir Goes Into...
5. Funny You Should Ask
6. I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
7. In A Nutshell
8. Injury Time
9. The Jason Explanation
10. Just A Minute
11. Keep It Maclean
12. Listen To Les
13. The Little And Large Party
14. Marks In His Diary
15. Mother Goose
16. My Music
17. My Word!
18. Naked Radio
19. Never Too Late
20. The News Huddlines
21. The News Quiz
22. Operation Lightning Pegasus
23. Patterson
24. Radio Active
25. The Small, Intricate Life Of Gerald C. Potter
26. Tony's
27. A Very Private Man
28. Week Ending
29. What Ho, Jeeves!
30. Wrinkles

British comedy films released in 1981

1. The Box
2. Emmanuelle In Soho
3. The Great Muppet Caper
4. Gregory's Girl
5. Honky Tonk Freeway