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- Fawlty Towers. John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Connie Booth. 1,202 votes. A brilliantly crafted farce, Fawlty Towers stars the incomparable John Cleese as Basil Fawlty, the perpetually flustered and hapless hotel manager.
- Steptoe and Son. Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett. 418 votes. This gritty comedy-drama centres on father-and-son rag-and-bone men Albert (Wilfrid Brambell) and Harold Steptoe (Harry H. Corbett), whose bitter relationship drives the show's dark humour.
- Porridge. Ronnie Barker, Brian Wilde, Fulton Mackay. 748 votes. Set within the confines of HM Slade Prison, Porridge is led by Ronnie Barker's iconic portrayal of inmate Norman Stanley Fletcher.
- Are You Being Served? Trevor Bannister, John Inman, Wendy Richard. 1,076 votes. An ensemble sitcom set in a department store, Are You Being Served? features an unforgettable cast of eccentric characters led by the charmingly snobbish Mrs Slocombe (Mollie Sugden) and her colourful wigs.
Mar 12, 2019 · 1970's BBC Comedy. October 13, 2024. Sykes, 1972 Sykes was the full colour BBC sitcom written by and Starring Eric Sykes. It ran for sixty eight...
New titles in 1970 included The Goodies, Simon Simon, Entertaining Mr Sloane, Take A Girl Like You, For The Love Of Ada, The Breaking Of Bumbo, Loot, Some Will, Some Won't, Zeta One and Every Home Should Have One. A list of British comedies that launched between 1979 and 1970.
- Steptoe and Son (1962-1974) Father and son rag-and-bone team ply their trade from a backstreet yard in Shepherd’s Bush, West London, leading to perpetual inter-generational conflict between aspirant and ambitious young Harold and “dirty old man” Albert.
- Till Death Us Do Part (1965-1975) Ranting East End bigot Alf Garnett rails forth against immigrants, socialists, Liverpudlians, layabouts, young people in general and his “silly old moo” wife, Else.
- All Gas and Gaiters (1966-1971) An ecclesiastical farce revolving around rivalry and intrigue in the Church of England. An over-officious dean tries to enforce discipline at St. Ogg’s Cathedral, much to the annoyance of everyone else on the team .
- Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width (1967-1971) Manny Cohen and Patrick Kelly make for an unlikely couple, being from distinctly different cultural backgrounds (one Jewish and the other Irish), but they go into business together as tailors.
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Yet the Pythons were not the only ones who excelled at being silly. Cleese and Chapman’s mates from the Cambridge Footlights Club – Tim-Brooke Taylor and Bill Oddie – joined forces with Graeme Garden to create The Goodies. The Goodies was sold to the BBCwhen the trio went to Michael Mills, then head of BBC television comedy, and9 told him that they...
While the Pythons and the Goodies were breaking new ground in sketch comedy, producer/writer David Croft was successfully and brilliantly carrying the flag for more traditional fare. Croft still had a major hit in Dad’s Army when one day he received a script from a young writer named Jeremy Lloyd. The story was taken from Lloyd’s experiences at a d...
The 70s were also a great time for British double acts. Ronnie Barker (when not playing Fletcher and Arkwright) teamed up with his physical opposite – the tiny, bespectacled Ronnie Corbett – as The Two Ronnies. The Two Ronnies was more of your basic variety show with Barker and Corbett playing a number of different characters as well as engaging in...
The 70s also heralded the arrival of one of the greatest of all comedic storytellers, Billy Connolly.Connolly was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1942. He worked on the docks, had a stint in the military, and started his showbiz career on the coffee house circuit, playing the banjo and singing politically conscious folk songs. His act eventually devel...
The Pythons blasted in the seventies with their groundbreaking lunacy, but overall, this decade is often thought of as the age of the twee sitcom as epitomized by The Good Life. The last year of the decade, however, was a transitional one – a year when comfortable, safe suburbia was replaced by the cheek and impertinence of Not The Nine O’Clock New...
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Mind Your Language: Created by Vince Powell. With Barry Evans, George Camiller, Jacki Harding, Zara Nutley. A diverse group of immigrants and foreigners learn English at an adult education school in London.
