Dave Allen At Large
- TV stand-up / sketch show
- BBC Two / BBC One
- 1971 - 1979
- 31 episodes (5 series)
Sit-down stand-up Dave Allen presents a series of thought-provoking and often religion-based comedy monologues and sketches. Also features Jacqueline Clarke, Ronnie Brody, Ian Burford, Michael Sharvell-Martin, Chris Serle and more.
Press clippings
BBC to broadcast The Festival Of Funny
The BBC has announced The Festival Of Funny. Running across its TV, radio and online channels from late February to mid-March, the festival will see fourteen hours of new content broadcast.
British Comedy Guide, 15th February 2021Remembering laughter legend Dave Allen
Dave Allen is trapped in limbo. The Irish comedian has been floating in the afterlife ever since his death in 2005. Well, at least he is in a new one-man play about to be premiered in Manchester.
David Henry, Manchester Evening News, 4th March 2011Comedian Dave Allen could do with a mouthwash too. His fortnightly Dave Allen at Large (BBC2) is the nearest equivalent yet to the wink and the nudge on the bar-stool, a form of signalling that always makes me look for the nearest exit. He is one of the many comedians on the box who somehow contrive to have more writers on the final credits than jokes in the script.
Dennis Potter, The Sunday Times, 5th December 1976