The Arthur Haynes Show
- TV sketch show
- ITV1
- 1957 - 1966
- 158 episodes (14 series)
Largely forgotten but hugely popular, long-running sketch show starring Arthur Haynes with support from Nicholas Parsons and scripts by Johnny Speight.
Press clippings
DVD review: The Arthur Haynes Show Vol 1
A chance to relive some classic British comedy with the first volume of the show that made Arthur Haynes the most popular British comedian in the 1950s/60s.
Stephen Ashfield, Suite 101, 21st September 2011The Arthur Haynes Show, on ITV, for instance, has an anarchical, bitter note of protest rippling through even its wilder moments. Perhaps it is no accident that scriptwriter Johnny Speight's two straight plays have dealt with mental illness. Echoes of them thud through his workaday comedies like footsteps in the dark.
Dennis Potter, Daily Herald, 18th January 1964