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British Sitcom History Podcast We look at British sitcoms of the last sixty years, laugh at them, and talk about them.

26/01/2025

Allen just sent me this video from his squalid bedsit in 2014. Some things never change...

Happy Birthday to the late William Fox.
26/01/2025

Happy Birthday to the late William Fox.

Happy Birthday to the oldest Young One. Christopher Ryan was 32 when the first episode of Young Ones was broadcast, and ...
25/01/2025

Happy Birthday to the oldest Young One. Christopher Ryan was 32 when the first episode of Young Ones was broadcast, and 45 by the time of this episode of Bottom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxV3HZYlsEI

Brian Croucher is best known for dramatic roles, including lengthy spells in Eastenders and The Bill, but he is one of t...
23/01/2025

Brian Croucher is best known for dramatic roles, including lengthy spells in Eastenders and The Bill, but he is one of those faces we keep seeing. He guested in loads of sitcoms in the 80s and 90s, from The Young Ones to Birds of A Feather. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKt92e3Og1Q

The final series of Please Sir was on in 1972, and Lookin are promoting it this week, along with NASA's Apollo programme...
22/01/2025

The final series of Please Sir was on in 1972, and Lookin are promoting it this week, along with NASA's Apollo programme.

George Layton was a familiar face, appearing in Doctor in The House, and its sequel series. He also appeared as Solly in...
20/01/2025

George Layton was a familiar face, appearing in Doctor in The House, and its sequel series. He also appeared as Solly in It Ain't Half Hot Mum. He was also a prolific writer, including Robin's Nest and Don't Wait Up.

Happy Birthday to Sophie Thompson.
20/01/2025

Happy Birthday to Sophie Thompson.

Happy Birthday to the two musical guest stars of the Miranda finale. Both born on 20th January.
20/01/2025

Happy Birthday to the two musical guest stars of the Miranda finale. Both born on 20th January.

Happy Birthday to the great British comedy actor Patsy Rowlands. A star of many Carry On films, she's best known to Brit...
19/01/2025

Happy Birthday to the great British comedy actor Patsy Rowlands. A star of many Carry On films, she's best known to British Sitcom Historians as Sid James' neighbour in Bless This House, but appeared in multiple sitcoms. This picture is taken from The Squirrels, in which she played Ken Jones' wife Susan. https://youtu.be/gkyF9On3mYI

Happy Birthday to the late Paul Angelis.
18/01/2025

Happy Birthday to the late Paul Angelis.

Happy Birthday to Jane Horrocks. Most famous for her holorole in Red Dwarf.
18/01/2025

Happy Birthday to Jane Horrocks. Most famous for her holorole in Red Dwarf.

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Allen just sent me this video from his squalid bedsit in 2014. Some things never change...

Hoppy Birthday to Arthur Bostrom.

Happy Birthday to the late Michael Bilton. Born 14th December 1919.

Next week's episode is modern classic Ghosts. We will focus on series 4 episode 4 - Gone Gone, in which we explore the implications of getting sucked off. All the episodes are on Iplayer, but here's Gone Gone: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0d0mkkc/ghosts-series-4-4-gone-gone

This week's episode in our poll winner. You picked (from the tiny and obscure selection we offered) was The Other One, starring Michael Gambon and Richard Briers. We will focus on series 1 episode 5.

Ray Von Compilation

The biggest laughs in Porkpie.

Ram John Holder in Coronation Street (2024)

Norman Beaton in Sykes (1978)

Gyearbuor Assante in Mind Your Language (1978)

Carmen Munroe in The Fenn Street Gang (1971)

Coming in your ears! This week's episode will be covering Phoenix Nights. We will focus on series 1 episode 4, Singles Night. The things we are gonna do to you….

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