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. Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective
24. Dave Allen
25. The Dick Emery Show
26. Doctors' Daughters
27. Dodd On His Todd
28. Educating Marmalade
29. The End Of The End Of The Pier Show
30. A Fine Romance
31. Frankie Howerd Strikes Again
32. Freddie Starr On The Road
33. Fundamental Frolics
34. The Gaffer
35. Game For A Laugh
36. Get Lost!
37. The Goodies
38. Happy Endings
39. Have I Got You... Where You Want Me?
40. Hi-De-Hi!
41. Hinge And Bracket
42. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
43. Holding The Fort
44. Honky Tonk Heroes
45. If You Go Down In The Woods Today
46. The Incredible Mr Tanner
47. It Ain't Half Hot Mum
48. It Takes A Worried Man...
49. Keep It In The Family
50. Kelly Monteith
51. The Kenny Everett Television Show
52. The Kenny Everett Video Show
53. A Kick Up The Eighties
54. The Kindness Of Mrs Radcliffe
55. Kinvig
56. Last Of The Summer Wine
57. The Last Song
58. The Les Dawson Show
59. Little And Large
60. The Little World Of Don Camillo
61. Max
62. A Midsummer Night's Dream
63. Mike Yarwood In Persons
64. Misfits
65. The Morecambe & Wise Show
66. Never The Twain
67. Not The Nine O'Clock News
68. Now For Nookie
69. The Olympian Way
70. Only Fools And Horses
71. Only When I Laugh
72. Open All Hours
73. The Other 'Arf
74. Partners
75. Pig In The Middle
76. Present Laughter
77. Private Schulz
78. Punchlines
79. Rentaghost
80. Revolting Women
81. Robin's Nest
82. Roger Doesn't Live Here Anymore
83. Roots
84. Rosie
85. Russ Abbot's Madhouse
86. Scoop
87. Seconds Out
88. A Sharp Intake Of Breath
89. Shelley
90. Shillingbury Tales
91. Sink Or Swim
92. Solo
93. Sorry!
94. Sorry, I'm A Stranger Here Myself
95. Spotlight: Eric Sykes: One Of The Great Troupers
96. Stainless Steel And The Star Spies
97. The Stanley Baxter Series
98. Take A Letter Mr. Jones...
99. Terry & June
100. That Beryl Marston...!
101. That's My Boy
102. Three Of A Kind
103. Till Death....
104. To The Manor Born
105. The Two Ronnies
106. Vice Versa
107. West End Tales
108. The Winter's Tale
109. Wood And Walters
110. Worzel Gummidge
111. Yes Minister
112. Young At Heart
113. 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. The Little And Large Party
13. Marks In His Diary
14. My Music
15. My Word!
16. Naked Radio
17. Never Too Late
18. The News Huddlines
19. The News Quiz
20. Operation Lightning Pegasus
21. Patterson
22. Radio Active
23. The Small, Intricate Life Of Gerald C. Potter
24. Tony's
25. A Very Private Man
26. Week Ending
27. What Ho, Jeeves!
28. 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