Michael Bates
- British
- Actor
Press clippings
Last missing Navy Lark episode recovered
The last completely missing episode of long-running radio sitcom The Navy Lark has been recovered. However, other editions still only survive in inferior and cut forms.
British Comedy Guide, 18th January 2023It Ain't Half Hot Mum - where are they now?
Whatever happened to the cast of the sitcom?
Chortle, 21st January 2019Watching unPC sitcoms should be part of the curriculum
The BBC's remakes of Till Death Us Do Part and Are You Being Served? are only to be appreciated through the filter of irony. But things like It Ain't Half Hot Mum weren't malicious.
James Delingpole, The Spectator, 1st September 2016New exhibit shows archive pictures of BBC comedians
Compton Verney exhibition charts 60 years of comedy, from Hancock's Half Hour to Miranda Hart.
Mark Brown, The Guardian, 26th June 2016Argument 'threatened Summer Wine'
Last Of The Summer Wine actor Peter Sallis has revealed how a political argument nearly derailed the comedy series before it started.
Speaking to Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, Sallis said his co-stars Michael Bates and Bill Owen fell out over their political affiliations when they met.
BBC, 17th May 2009