British Comedy Guide
British Comedy Guide
Get Well Soon. Image shows from L to R: Roy Osborne (Matthew Cottle), Brian Clapton (Eddie Marsan). Copyright: BBC
Get Well Soon

Get Well Soon

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC One
  • 1997
  • 6 episodes (1 series)

Sitcom set in a 1947 tuberculosis sanatorium, based on the meeting of comedy-writing powerhouse team Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Stars Matthew Cottle, Eddie Marsan, Anita Dobson, Samantha Beckinsale, Robert Bathurst and more.

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Very Nearly An Armful - The Galton & Simpson Story. Image shows from L to R: Alan Simpson, Ray Galton Radio

Very Nearly An Armful - The Galton & Simpson Story

Stephen Merchant celebrates the writing partnership of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson in this Radio 2 documentary.

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) Radio

Hancock's Half Hour

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.

Hancock's Half Hour. Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock (Tony Hancock). Copyright: BBC TV

Hancock's Half Hour

Tony Hancock stars in Galton & Simpson's comic masterpiece, with his delusions of grandeur and acquaintances at the root of his every downfall.

Steptoe And Son. Image shows from L to R: Albert Steptoe (Wilfrid Brambell), Harold Steptoe (Harry H. Corbett). Copyright: BBC TV

Steptoe And Son

Albert Steptoe and his son Harold run a rag and bone business. Harold wants to move on in the world and leave home but his plans are always thwarted.

Steptoe And Son. Image shows from L to R: Harold (Harry H. Corbett), Albert (Wilfrid Brambell). Copyright: BBC Radio

Steptoe And Son

Radio adaptation of Galton & Simpson's hit TV sitcom about a father and son rag-and-bone man team.

Steptoe & Son. Image shows from L to R: Zita (Carolyn Seymour), Harold (Harry H. Corbett), Albert (Wilfrid Brambell). Copyright: Associated London Films Limited Film

Steptoe & Son

Disaster looms when restless rag-and-bone man Harold Steptoe decides to get married - against his father's wishes.

Steptoe And Son Ride Again. Image shows from L to R: Albert (Wilfrid Brambell), Harold (Harry H. Corbett). Copyright: Associated London Films Limited Film

Steptoe And Son Ride Again

The rag-and-bone business is in trouble and Harold is convinced that Albert must die so that he can collect the old man's life insurance.

Galton & Simpson's Half Hour. Copyright: Red Door Radio

Galton & Simpson's Half Hour

A series of half-hour comedies from the writing partnership of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

Paul Merton In Galton & Simpson's.... Paul (Paul Merton) TV

Paul Merton In Galton & Simpson's...

Series starring Paul Merton in which the comic re-performs a number of original Galton & Simpson scripts, including some of Tony Hancock.

Car Along The Pass. Henry Duckworth (Arthur Lowe). Copyright: Yorkshire Television TV

Car Along The Pass

Henry Duckworth would never have imagined that he would be trapped in a cable car with a German couple when he set off on his Alpine holiday.

Swap You One Of These For One Of Those. Image shows from L to R: Henry Fairlane (Richard Briers), Roger Greasham (Henry McGee). Copyright: Yorkshire Television TV

Swap You One Of These For One Of Those

It seems that Henry Fairlane's life is about to get a bit of excitement when he is invited to a swingers party - but then he loses his wife en route.

Cheers. Charles (Charles Gray). Copyright: Yorkshire Television TV

Cheers

Life has become full of boring routine for Charles and Peter - but things are about to change.

Naught For Thy Comfort. Richard Burton (Roy Kinnear). Copyright: Yorkshire Television TV

Naught For Thy Comfort

An airline steward whose wife has left him finds no comfort in friends.

Variations On A Theme. Image shows from L to R: Man 1 (John Bird), Helen (Frances de la Tour). Copyright: Yorkshire Television TV

Variations On A Theme

The eternal triangle can have more than one outcome.

I Tell You It's Burt Reynolds. Image shows left to right: Uncle Jim (Leonard Rossiter), Joyce (Gillian Raine) TV

I Tell You It's Burt Reynolds

A film and TV know-all goes to absurd lengths to prove his knowledge.

Big Deal At York City. Albert Cakebread (Warren Mitchell). Copyright: Yorkshire Television TV

Big Deal At York City

Strangers on a train begin an impromptu card game en route to King's Cross, with unforseen consequences.

Casanova '73. Henry Newhouse (Leslie Phillips). Copyright: BBC TV

Casanova '73

Leslie Phillips stars as reluctant womaniser Henry Newhouse, who just can't help getting himself into the most farcical situations possible.

Only When I Laugh. Image shows from L to R: Dr. Gordon Thorpe (Richard Wilson), Roy Figgis (James Bolam), Norman Binns (Christopher Strauli), Archie Glover (Peter Bowles). Copyright: Yorkshire Television TV

Only When I Laugh

Roy Figgis, Norman Binns and Archie Glover are long-term residents of the NHS. Despite this, they never fail to get themselves into trouble.

Surgical Spirit. Sheila Sabatini (Nichola McAuliffe). Copyright: Humphrey Barclay Productions TV

Surgical Spirit

Sheila Sabatini is a well-respected surgeon, but equally feared for her no-nonsense, don't-even-try-it attitude.

TLC. Image shows from L to R: Dr. Laurence Flynn (Reece Shearsmith), Mr. Benedict Ron (Richard Griffiths), Dr. Stephen Noble (Alexander Armstrong) TV

TLC

Surreal sitcom set inside a dysfunctional London NHS hospital following a neurotic, bumbling, shy junior house surgeon.

Twice Round The Daffodils. Image shows from L to R: Ian Richards (Donald Sinden), George Logg (Lance Percival), Henry Halfpenny (Kenneth Williams), John Rhodes (Donald Houston), Chris Walker (Andrew Ray). Copyright: STUDIOCANAL Film

Twice Round The Daffodils

Comedy following the romantic entanglements of a ward of male patients at a TB sanatorium.

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