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Comedy Playhouse
Overview
Comedy Playhouse is a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 120 episodes from 1961 to 1975. Many episodes later graduated to their own series, including Steptoe and Son, Till Death Us Do Part, All Gas and Gaiters, The Liver Birds, Are You Being Served? and Last of the Summer Wine, which is the world's longest running sitcom, having run from January 1973 to August 2010.
Status
Ended
Network
BBC One
Seasons & Episodes
Season 3
Episodes
On The Knocker
Exploits of door-to-door salesman Ronnie Fender.
Underworld Nights
Exploits of crime writer Vogler.
Fools Rush In
A retired Major tries to adjust to civilian life.
Shamrot
Dermot is a London-born Irishman who hates everything about England, but has never even been to the ""Old Country.""
The Bachelor Girls
Two young girls about town share a flat.
The Plan
Albert Fawkes hates his surname and rebels against it by trying to re-enact the Gunpowder Plot.
A Picture of Innocence
Northern Arthur Berry develops an interest in art.
Nicked at the Bottle
Lawyer Mossy advises Mrs Emily Trout and her family of crooks.
The Chars
Exploits of two charladies at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Comrades in Arms
A window cleaner witnesses an extramarital affair and is soon involved in farcical cover-up shenanigans.
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Exploits of a pair of mismatched elderly friends.
The Bed
The ups and downs of a Northern married couple.
The Mate Market
Exploits of marriage bureau owner John Cook.
The Hen House
Mrs Fanwyn runs her Khartoum House Girls Hostel with a firm hand.
The Siege of Sydney's Street
Sydney Lord hates beaurocracy and determines to fight it whenever he finds it.
The Mascot
Mad keen football fan Arnold Birtwhistle is mascot of Northtown Football Club, but new chairman Mr Gibson wants to change the club's image.
Good Luck Sir, You've Got A Lucky Face
Match seller Gomorrah Weevil tangles with slum landlord Harold Harbinger.
