British Comedy Guide

Schedule Wednesday 4th March 2009

Radio 7 6am (repeat)
It Sticks Out Half A Mile. Image shows from L to R: Frank Pike (Ian Lavender), Arthur Wilson (John Le Mesurier), Miss Perkins (Vivienne Martin), Bert Hodges (Bill Pertwee). Copyright: BBC

It Sticks Out Half A Mile

Episode 5 - Pike In Love

Love-sick Pike cannot concentrate on renovating the pier, so Uncle Arthur is called in to lecture him on the birds and the bees.

Radio 4 11:30am
30 min
Clare In The Community. Copyright: BBC

Clare In The Community

Series 5, Episode 3 - Girls On Film

Not only does Clare have a new trainee social worker to break in, but she and her colleagues at the Sparrowhawk Family centre are the subject of a documentary film.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
I've Never Seen Star Wars. Marcus Brigstocke. Copyright: BBC

I've Never Seen Star Wars

Series 2, Episode 5 - Suggs

Suggs reads A Brief History of Time, listens to Vivaldi, changes the oil in a car and has his first tap dancing lesson.

BBC Three 8pm (repeat)
Wallace And Gromit's Cracking Contraptions. Copyright: Aardman Animations / BBC

Wallace And Gromit's Cracking Contraptions

A compliation of shorts featuring some of Wallace and Gromit's more unusual range of inventions.

BBC Three 8:15pm (repeat)
A Grand Day Out With Wallace And Gromit. Credit: BBC, Channel 4 Television Corporation, Aardman Animations

A Grand Day Out With Wallace And Gromit

The first original outing of the world's favourite plasticine duo. Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, so they decide to spend their bank holiday collecting cheese on the Moon.

BBC Three 8:40pm (repeat)
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit. Copyright: Aardman Animations

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit

Wallace and Gromit discover that their new pest control business is in high demand when a monstrous rabbit strikes.

Channel 5 logo 9pm
60 min
Minder. Image shows from L to R: Arthur Daley (George Cole), Terry (Dennis Waterman)

Minder

Series 11, Episode 5 - Thank Your Lucky Stars

Archie risks the wrath of an old business associate when he loses the man's car in a poker game. He enlists the help of poker expert Jamie to win the car back, but the pair find the stakes are uncomfortably high.

ITV3 logo. Credit: ITV 9pm (repeat)
Ladies Of Letters. Image shows from L to R: Vera Small (Anne Reid), Irene Spencer (Maureen Lipman). Copyright: Tiger Aspect Productions

Ladies Of Letters

Series 1, Episode 5

Irene is in hospital - suffering from amnesia, loss of sex drive and a compulsion to use bad language.

ITV3 logo. Credit: ITV 9:30pm (repeat)
Rising Damp. Rupert Rigsby (Leonard Rossiter). Copyright: Yorkshire Television

Rising Damp

Series 1, Episode 4 - All Our Yesterdays

Spooner's laid up in his room with a broken ankle after tripping over Vienna, and making an awful lot of noise. Rigsby's keen to appear courageous in front of Miss Jones, but the boxer's temperament brings forth every element of his cowardice. Discussion soon turns to the war.

BBC Two Scotland 10pm
30 min
One Star. Copyright: Tern TV Productions

One Star

Animated sitcom pilot about the worst bed and breakfast in space.

BBC Two 10pm (repeat)
QI. Stephen Fry. Copyright: TalkbackThames

QI

Series F, Episode 10 - Flora And Fauna

With John Sergeant, Jimmy Carr and Jo Brand.

BBC Three 10pm (repeat)
Little Britain. Image shows from L to R: David Walliams, Matt Lucas, The Prime Minister (Anthony Head)

Little Britain

Little Britain USA. Vicky Pollard is in hospital after a serious accident, and foul-mouthed child Ellie-Grace being accompanied to her first sleepover by her worried mother.

ITV2 logo. Credit: ITV 10pm
30 min
Celebrity Juice. Image shows from L to R: Holly Willoughby, Rufus Hound, Leigh Francis, Fearne Cotton

Celebrity Juice

Series 2, Episode 2

With Fearne away climbing Kilimanjaro for Comic Relief, celebrity royalty Peaches Geldof fills in as a special guest captain. Also joining the teams are Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills, current King of the Jungle Joe Swash and comedian Rob Deering.

Radio 7 10:30pm (repeat)
Old Harry's Game. Image shows from L to R: Satan (Andy Hamilton), Gary (Steven O'Donnell). Copyright: BBC

Old Harry's Game

Series 2, Episode 3 - Nero

Satan selects the Roman Emperor Nero as his new assistant and takes Thomas on a tour of his life.

ITV2 logo. Credit: ITV 10:30pm
30 min
FM. Image shows from L to R: Dom Cox (Kevin Bishop), Jane Edwards (Nina Sosanya), Lindsay Carol (Chris O'Dowd). Copyright: Granada Productions

FM

Episode 2 - System Addict

The group try to stick to some new resolutions: Dom gives up booze, Jane gives up cigarettes, and Lindsay gives up giving up on girls. Featuring a performance by the Wombats, and a guest appearance by Toyah Willcox.

Radio 4 11pm
15 min
Josie Long - All Of The Planet's Wonders. Josie Long. Copyright: BBC

Josie Long - All Of The Planet's Wonders

Episode 3

Josie explores the fantstic world of obscure animal facts in a bid to become the ultimate quiz contestant. To do this she looks back at her animal rights activist past, questions why she grew out of that phase and interrogates her father over his quiz buff history.

Channel 4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation 11:05pm (repeat)
Shameless. Frank Gallagher (David Threlfall). Copyright: Company Pictures

Shameless

Series 6, Episode 6

Paddy wakes up disorientated, chained to a bed in a strange room, unable to remember where he is or how he got there. When Maureen comes in things seem a little clearer.

Radio 4 11:15pm (repeat)
One. David Quantick. Copyright: Random Entertainment

One

Series 1, Episode 3

Sketches include the 'slipping forecast'; more from Jeremy Clarkson's Top Dog; a lost solo sailor; and an honest PA announcement from a train guard.

BBC Three 11:45pm (repeat)
LifeSpam: My Child Is French. Image shows from L to R: Alice Lowe, Man With 1000 Wives (Simon Farnaby). Copyright: Arbie

LifeSpam: My Child Is French

A comedy pilot by Alice Lowe which spoofs shocking true life documentaries.

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