Alas Smith & Jones
- TV sketch show
- BBC Two
- 1984 - 1988
- 4 series
Popular sketch show starring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. Also features Andrew Francis, Annette Lynton, Annabel Leventon, Raymond Mason, Tony Robinson and more.
Press clippings
BBC Four to repeat comedy classics
To link in with the celebrations of 100 years of the BBC, from Saturday 22nd October BBC Four will begin broadcasting classic episodes of sitcoms and sketch shows.
British Comedy Guide, 14th October 2022Sitcom star Peter Blake dies
Actor Peter Blake, who was famous for a number of sitcom roles in the 1970s and 1980s has died. He was 69.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 23rd July 2018Unseen Smith & Jones footage at Slapstick Festival
Unseen footage of Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith will be shown at the Bristol Slapstick Festival 2015.
The Bristol Post, 3rd October 2014Griff Rhys Jones on his comedy soul mate Mel Smith
"I think we made some 50 hours of TV together. God knows a lot of it won't bear repeating, but when it was good it was sheer bliss to perform with Mel".
Griff Rhys Jones, Radio Times, 3rd August 2013