British Comedy Guide
British Comedy Guide

Schedule Sunday 17th May 2009

ITV1 logo. Credit: ITV 11:40am (repeat)
Mutiny On The Buses. Image shows from L to R: Suzy (Janet Mahoney), Stan Butler (Reg Varney). Copyright: STUDIOCANAL

Mutiny On The Buses

Second spin-off from the popular sitcom. Stan wants to get married, but his family are not impressed by the idea.

Radio 4 12pm (repeat)
The Museum Of Curiosity. Image shows from L to R: John Lloyd, Sean Lock. Copyright: BBC

The Museum Of Curiosity

Gallery 2, Episode 2 - Meeting Eight

Comedian Tim Fitzhigham, physicist Simon Singh, and Gavin Pretor-Pinney, author of The Cloudspotter's Guide and co-founder of The Idler donate Don Quixote, a pigeon-spattered telescope and an extremely rare cloud to the museum.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 1:30pm (repeat)
Keeping Up Appearances. Image shows from L to R: Hyacinth Bucket (Patricia Routledge), Richard Bucket (Clive Swift). Copyright: BBC

Keeping Up Appearances

Hyacinth finds herself with an ideal opportunity to impress Emmet with her singing when she discovers that he is involved in a concert at the church hall.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 3:55pm (repeat)
My Family. Image shows from L to R: Michael Harper (Gabriel Thomson), Susan Harper (Zoë Wanamaker), Ben Harper (Robert Lindsay), Janey Harper (Daniela Denby-Ashe). Copyright: DLT Entertainment Ltd. / Rude Boy Productions

My Family

Series 9, Special - Kenzo's Project

Clip Show. Kenzo's school project about the family gives everyone a chance to look at some of the crazier moments in the Harper history.

Radio 7 4:30pm (repeat)
The Alan Davies Show. Alan (Alan Davies). Copyright: BBC

The Alan Davies Show

Episode 1 - Poo

Alan, Kate and Murray get themselves separately locked in and have to be rescued.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 5:30pm
30 min
Last Of The Summer Wine. Image shows from L to R: Walter C. 'Foggy' Dewhurst (Brian Wilde), William 'Compo' Simmonite (Bill Owen), Norman Clegg (Peter Sallis). Copyright: BBC

Last Of The Summer Wine

Series 30, Episode 5 - Nobody Messes With Tony The Throat

Howard is deeply concerned when Pearl starts going out every day with Nelly, and she will not say where.

ITV3 logo. Credit: ITV 8pm (repeat)
Beyond A Joke. Copyright: Granada Productions

Beyond A Joke

Episode 2 - The Birds The Blokes And The Bees

This edition examines the 1970s obsession with bawdiness and dissects how sitcoms dealt with love, sex and marriage in a typically British, raucous and outrageous manner.

ITV3 logo. Credit: ITV 9pm (repeat)
Carry On Cruising. Image shows from L to R: Captain Wellington Crowther (Sid James), Dr Arthur Binn (Kenneth Connor), First Officer Leonard Marjoribanks (Kenneth Williams)

Carry On Cruising

Comedy with the Carry On crew, in which a sea captain discovers that his regular shipmates have defected and so must he hire an inexperienced crew.

Gold channel logo. Copyright: UKTV 9pm
120 min
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened. John Cleese. Copyright: Tiger Aspect Productions

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

Episode 2 - Fawlty Towers Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits

A special tribute to the peerless sitcom. John Cleese discusses his experience of playing Basil Fawlty and picks out his favourite moments from the show.

BBC Three 9pm
60 min
Pulling. Image shows from L to R: Donna (Sharon Horgan), Louise (Rebekah Staton), Karen (Tanya Franks), Billy (Paul Kaye), Karl (Cavan Clerkin). Copyright: Silver River

Pulling

Final Special - 2009 Final Special

Louise is moving in with Joe, the love of her life; Donna has found a rich man with no personality; and Karen has realised that the only thing a woman really wants in life is to make her man happy, so she has found herself a chauvinist.

Radio 7 10pm (repeat)
The News Quiz. Andy Zaltzman

The News Quiz

Series 68, Episode 2

The Wrath of Lumley. Sandi Toksvig and team dissect a week of news in which Gordon Brown faced a cabinet revolt (and Joanna Lumley's wrath), Jacqui Smith listed banned extremists and Prince Charles sent out a message to the people on MySpace. The panel are Jeremy Hardy, Francis Wheen, Andy Hamilton and Sue Perkins.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 10:20pm (repeat)
Reggie Perrin. Reggie Perrin (Martin Clunes). Copyright: Objective Productions

Reggie Perrin

Series 1, Episode 4

Reggie becomes increasingly frustrated with his life. Nicola, seems to prefer spending time with anyone but him.

Radio 7 10:30pm (repeat)
Safety Catch. Simon McGrath (Darren Boyd). Copyright: BBC

Safety Catch

Series 1, Episode 4 - Whatever Happened To The Unlikely Lad?

Persuaded by his girlfriend and family, Simon attends his school reunion, determined that no one should find out what he does for a living.

BBC Three 10:45pm (repeat)
Ideal. Moz (Johnny Vegas). Copyright: Baby Cow Productions

Ideal

Series 5, Episode 1 - The Healer

Jenny is in a coma and appears to be seeing the world as one big song-and-dance routine in a series of dream sequences. Meanwhile Moz receives a string of visitors - all of whom believe they can 'snap her out of it'.

ITV3 logo. Credit: ITV 10:50pm (repeat)
Rising Damp. Rupert Rigsby (Leonard Rossiter). Copyright: Yorkshire Television

Rising Damp

Series 2, Episode 7 - Things That Go Bump In The Night

Could rumours of the Grey Lady who haunts the house, be true? Rigsby certainly believes so, although he has not seen her - yet.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 10:50pm (repeat)
Gregory's Girl. Image shows from L to R: Susan (Clare Grogan), Gregory Underwood (John Gordon Sinclair). Copyright: Lake Films

Gregory's Girl

Love is a game of two halves in this endearing eighties tale of an adolescent crush.

Radio 7 11pm (repeat)
No Tomatoes. Copyright: BBC

No Tomatoes

Episode 6 - Retro Rocket

Sketches include watching "Police, Camera, Supervolcano" on the fire, the truth about the early Popes as explained by Doctor Who, and the Barry Coney Christian Laughter Show.

Radio 7 11:15pm (repeat)
Clipboard

Knocker

Episode 6 - Profitch

A trip down a dual carriageway and a meeting with a man who claims to be a prophet lead to Ian making an important decision.

ITV3 logo. Credit: ITV 11:25pm (repeat)
Rising Damp. Rupert Rigsby (Leonard Rossiter). Copyright: Yorkshire Television

Rising Damp

Series 3, Episode 1 - That's My Boy

Rigsby returns from a Spanish holiday to find Alan has let out the two spare rooms: he's delighted that Miss Jones has returned, but likely to be less than enthusiastic about a single mother and her baby - especially if the father is who he believes.

Radio 7 11:30pm (repeat)
Spats. John-Luke Roberts. Copyright: BBC

Spats

Series 2, Episode 1 - Society vs The Individual

John-Luke Roberts tackles the subject alone, while the audience listens together.

BBC Two 11:30pm (repeat)
The Graham Norton Show. Graham Norton. Credit: So Television, Christopher Baines

The Graham Norton Show

Series 5, Episode 10

Joining Graham for his usual mix of celebrity chat, jokes, stunts and audience mischief are actors Willem Dafoe and Ashley Jensen. Lily Allen performs her latest single Not Fair.

Radio 7 4:30am (repeat)
The Alan Davies Show. Alan (Alan Davies). Copyright: BBC

The Alan Davies Show

Episode 1 - Poo

Alan, Kate and Murray get themselves separately locked in and have to be rescued.

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