Terry-Thomas features
Comedy Chronicles: Tell me darling - am I going too far?: The protean powers of Betty Marsden
Sunday 8th September 2024
The overlooked and untold subject in this article is the chameleonesque comedian and actor Betty Marsden, best remembered for roles in Round The Horne and Carry On Camping.
Comedy Rewind: The Army Game on parade
Sunday 9th June 2024
A quick-march through the history of ITV sitcom The Army Game, one of television's most commercially successful comedies.
Comics in comics
Sunday 17th September 2023
Julian Dutton looks at the comic strips that have featured comedians. Tony Hancock, Terry-Thomas, Harry Secombe and Ken Dodd were amongst those featured in publications like Film Fun - it's a rich history of how comedians were perceived.
Comedy Chronicles: Random acts of kindness - Comedians being good to each other
Sunday 18th December 2022
Negative stories always make the biggest press headlines; so much so that positive tales, such as acts of unfaltering kindness, are often left completely untold.
Comedy Chronicles: Arrested developments - comedy out of context
Sunday 25th September 2022
Comedy does not always land quite as intended, and some attempts at humour have been known to bring comics to face the law itself.
Comedy Chronicles: Terry-Thomas - The Ibiza years
Sunday 12th July 2020
Thirty years since his death, Terry-Thomas remains the most English of screen stars. From 1968, however, the comedy icon lost his heart to a Spanish island in the middle of the Mediterranean...