Leslie Phillips, Bob Monkhouse, Patricia Hayes, Harry H. Corbett, David Jason, Jimmy Edwards and Richard O'Sullivan are just a few of the legendary performers starring in this collection of humorous plays penned by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, the legendary writing team whose timeless credits include both Hancock's Half Hour...
Penned by the writer/creator duo Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, The Galton & Simpson Playhouse is a series of seven individual sitcom playlets.
Starring the likes of Roy Kinnear, Arthur Lowe, Warren Mitchell, Richard Briers, and Leonard Rossiter, this DVD contains all seven episodes from YTV's 1977 series.
For the first time the stories behind the making of every sitcom from the 1970s will be told by the actors, writers, directors and producers who made them all happen.
Aside from providing entertainment to millions of people, the sitcom is a window into the culture of the day, and...
Ray Galton and Alan Simpson are two of the most influential and celebrated television scriptwriters of our time. Praised for inventing the sitcom, their own seminal creations are still standing the test of time with modern audiences - Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe & Son are two of the most...
Over 100 episodes of Hancock's Half Hour were produced and broadcast, first on BBC radio from 1954 and then on TV from 1956. Receiving critical acclaim at the time, and making a star of the cantankerous Tony Hancock and roguish Sid James, Hancock's Half Hour made history as the grumpy...
This is the story of how four people, grouped together inside a set of offices five floors above a greengrocer's shop on Shepherd's Bush Green in West London, launched a golden age of British comedy.
On any weekday morning, if you dared to clamber over the crates of fruit and...