British Comedy Guide

Schedule Tuesday 15th April 1958

BBC radio microphone. Copyright: BBC 12:30pm
30 min
BBC radio microphone. Copyright: BBC

Workers' Playtime

Episode 30

Long-running lunchtime variety series broadcast live from workplaces across Britain.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 7:30pm
30 min
Educated Evans. Educated Evans (Charlie Chester). Credit: BBC

Educated Evans

Series 2, Episode 2 - Second Event: Stand Up And Fight

Sitcom based on Edgar Wallace's famous Cockney horse-racing tipster character, 'Educated' Evans.

BBC radio microphone. Copyright: BBC 8pm
30 min
Hancock's Half Hour. Image shows from L to R: Sidney James (Sid James), Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock (Tony Hancock), Bill Kerr (Bill Kerr)

Hancock's Half Hour

Series 5, Episode 13 - The Foreign Legion

Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock is a loser whose plans and aspirations are continually ruined by bad luck, Sidney Balmoral James or, more often than not, by his own pomposity and ambition.

BBC radio microphone. Copyright: BBC 9pm
30 min
BBC radio microphone. Copyright: BBC

Variety Ahoy!

1958 Specials, Episode 1

BBC variety series recorded on Royal Navy vessels and bases.

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