British Comedy Guide

Television

TV schedule Friday 23rd March 1956

ITV1 logo. Credit: ITV 8:30pm
30 min
Before Your Very Eyes. Credit: Associated-Rediffusion Television, Jack Hylton Productions

Before Your Very Eyes

Series 1, Episode 4

Sketch show starring Arthur Askey.

ITV1 logo. Credit: ITV 10pm
30 min
ITV1 logo. Credit: ITV

The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d

Episode 5

The first attempt at bringing Goon Show humour to TV, this mix of sketches and sitcom-esque formulae was set around Victorian paper, The Idiot Weekly.

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