Perry & Croft: The Sitcoms
- TV documentary
- BBC One
- 1995
- 1 episode
Omnibus documentary looking at the extensive sitcom career of David Croft and Jimmy Perry. Features Jimmy Perry, David Croft, Bob Monkhouse, Harry Enfield, Ben Elton and more.
Press clippings
It was pig-in-clover happiness just to watch the extracts from Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot, Mum and Hi-De-Hi! in the Omnibus tribute to Perry and Croft, who wrote them.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 19th April 1995Last night's Omnibus (BBC1) looked at the other great sitcom partnership of that generation, Jimmy Perry and David Croft, creators of Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, and Hi-de-Hi! [...] Of the talking heads who'd queued up to pay homage, only Bob Monkhouse spoke with insight and eloquence, noting how jokes were tailor-made for the characters, and how the duo "bring such extraordinarily opposing views of comedy and blend them together so perfectly that the result is seamless".
Victor Lewis-Smith, Evening Standard, 19th April 1995