
Comedy G-L
George & Mildred
George & Mildred
George and the Dragon
A brilliant sitcom with top scripts by Vince Powell and Harry Driver. Sid James cackles and letches as chauffeur George, Peggy Mount waves her battle-axe as housekeeper Gabrielle Dragon, while John le Mesurier, as Colonel Maynard, ambles about the place as a prototype Sergeant Wilson.
The Good Life
The Goodies
The Goodies
Hardware
Written by Men Behaving Badly creator Simon Nye, Hardware centres around Mike (Martin Freeman) and his mate Kenny (Peter Serafinowicz) who work in a small hardware shop. In charge of the shop is boss Rex (Ken Morley), but you wouldn't know it.
Have I Got News For You
The satirical quiz based on the news, Have I Got News For You began in 1990. With comedian Paul Merton and Private Eye editor Ian Hislop as team captains, the show takes a light hearted look at current events, often sailing close to the wind in matters of libel.
Angus Deayton hosted the show until 2002, but following newspaper headlines surrounding his private life, Deayton was fired, and has been replaced with a guest host ever since. These have included Anne Robinson and Jeremy Clarkson.
Harry Hill
Running for three series on Channel 4, The Harry Hill Show was a showcase for Harry's surreal humour. Harry's brother Alan (Al Murray) and Pink Panther star Bert Kwouk regularly featured on the show, along with strange looking blue rubber glove puppet Stouffer the Cat.
Harry Worth
Here's Harry
Here's Harry sees him living at 53 Acacia Avenue, Woodbridge. The series focussed on his bumbling manor, creating chaos with officialdom wherever he went. The series ran for 60 30 minute episodes over 7 series, starting 11th Oct 1960 and ending 10th Dec 1965. Written by Eddie Maguire, Vince Powell, Harry Driver & Frank Roscoe.
Hi-de-Hi
Hippies
Created by Father Ted writing duo Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews, Hippies is set in the 60s in Swinging London, where Ray Purbss (Simon Pegg) creates subversive magazine Mouth from his flat in Notting Hill, aided and abetted by Alex Picton-Dinch (Julian Rhind-Tutt), Jill Sprint (Sally Phillips) and Hugo Yemp (Darren Boyd). Intended as a parody of the 1960s, it was savagely mauled by critics, and never returned for a second series.
Hot Metal
A very funny comedy by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, who had previously given us "Whoops Apocalypse". Robert Hardy and Geoffrey Palmer starred in this satire of trashy tabloid journalism, as seen in the Daily Crucible. A second series replaced Palmer with Richard Wilson. This clip from part 6, voiced by Christopher Timothy, neatly summarises the crazy events of series one. (tx 23/03/1986)
The IT Crowd
Just Good Friends
The Ken Dodd Show
Kenny Everett Video Show
In 1978, Thames Television brought Kenny Everett together with writers Barry Cryer and Ray Cameron, to create the groundbreaking The Kenny Everett Video Show. Everett had made initial forays into television in the 1960s and 1970s, but this was his most successful series by far. Packed with innovative visuals, and featured outrageous characters such as ageing rocker Sid Snot, Angry of Mayfair, a city gent in women's underwear, and lecherous Frenchman Marcel Wave. Stars from the world of TV and music such as Rod Stewart, Terry Wogan and Billy Connolly made cameo appearances on the show each week.
Kenny Everett Video Show
The Kenny Everett Video Show was a big ratings hit and ran for four series on ITV. Unusually for the time, the show was filmed in a small studio normally used for news programmes, and with no studio audience. The crew were kept on their toes by Kenny's ad libs and deviation from the script, and much of this appeared in the aired programmes. Following disagreements with management at Thames, Everett left Thames for the BBC and The Kenny Everett Television Show began with a Christmas special in 1981.
KYTV
A spoof of low budget satellite television stations around in the early 1990s. KYTV was written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins, and starred Deayton, Perkins, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Michael Fenton-Stevens and Phillip Pope. Named after its owner, Sir Kenneth Yellowhammer, inept presenters and links were the order of the day.
The Likely Lads
The Likely Lads ran from 1964 to 1966. The series was written by Dick Clements and Ian La Fresnais. It starred James Bolam and Rodney Bewes.
The Likely Lads (Christmas Special)