The Dick Emery Show
- TV sketch show
- BBC One / BBC Two
- 1963 - 1981
- 164 episodes (18 series)
Smash-hit, long-running character sketch show starring Dick Emery with a host of top-name guests. Also features Gordon Clyde, Joan Sims, Deryck Guyler, Pat Coombs, Roy Kinnear and Mary Millar
Press clippings
TV comedy powerhouse Harold Snoad dies
Prolific comedy producer Harold Snoad has died at the age of 88. His credits include The Dick Emery Show, Keeping Up Appearances and Dad's Army.
British Comedy Guide, 5th June 2024Comedies crowd top 100 missing TV shows list
A list of the top 100 missing TV shows has been revealed, with comedies including The Liver Birds, Dad's Army, At Last The 1948 Show and The Frost Report making the list.
British Comedy Guide, 24th April 2018RT marks Dick Emery's centenary with rare photos
The comedy star who pulled in 17 million viewers was born 100 years ago.
Patrick Mulkern, Radio Times, 19th February 2015Dick Emery's daughter on how his womanising scarred her
"I couldn't call him Daddy because it didn't feel right," she says. "He wasn't around enough. I was desperate to get to know him. I remember when I was about eight, my brother, Michael, and I were staying with him in Southsea, in a hotel. After dinner one evening, a young lady arrived so he gave my brother and me some money, went off with this 17-year-old and left us for a couple of nights. We used to take ourselves off to the fair and went mad with room service."
Rebecca Hardy, Daily Mail, 2nd August 2014As always, nobody was quicker at climbing into high heels than Dick Emery, star of The Dick Emery Christmas Show (BBC1), an extravaganza which left you wondering whether it wasn't time to abolish Christmas entirely.
Clive James, The Observer, 1st January 1978Most of the other humour shows were drear. Dick Emery (BBC1) was much less comfortable in a Santa outfit than in high heels and Mike Yarwood (BBC1) saddled himself with Max Bygraves. Tonight with Danny La Rue (ATV) was trash.
Clive James, The Observer, 29th December 1974The Dick Emery Christmas Show (BBC1) is drag to the roots: when he's in trousers, he's resting. I like the way dainty observation erupts into flagrant femme gestures - he flutters an eyebrow, flutes a voice, minces a walk and then suddenly bashes a door open with his hip - but the sketches are just vehicles.
Clive James, The Observer, 30th December 1973Yes, The Dick Emery Christmas Show was back on BBC television last night with yet another armful of impersonations from his grotesque comic gallery. Some of them were brilliantly funny, but others were as dull as an opinion poll. This often attractive and usually lively show is made up of whirling bits and pieces, yoked together by song and dance - a formula so simple that it can be disastrous.
Dennis Potter, Daily Herald, 2nd March 1964