From the Vault: Sherlock’s Mrs. Hudson was the original Gloria Stivic in ‘Till Death Us Do Part’
Rita, the original British version of All In The Family’s Gloria Stivic, represented a new generation.
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BBC revives Comedy Playhouse with 'Over to Bill'
This Spring will see two brilliant returns to the telly. Not so coincidentally, brilliance will collide when Doug Naylor’s Over to Bill launches as one of three pilots scheduled for the revival of the BBC’s Comedy Playhouse strand. Comedy Playhouse began in 1961 and ran until 1975 as an anthology series which served as the […]
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Happy 40th to Sanford & Son; Happy 50th to Steptoe & Son
Happy 40th, Sanford and Son A quiet milestone anniversary passed on Saturday involving one of the greats in American sitcom history with roots in British situation comedy. Sanford and Son, which starred Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson, premiered on NBC on January 14, 1972. Based on the brilliant British situation comedy, Steptoe and Son, the […]
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Last up in our favorite British comedy couple poll – Nora Batty & Compo
Kathy Staff (Nora Batty) and Bill Owen (Compo) have been with Last of the Summer Wine from the beginning when it was created in 1973 for the BBC series, Comedy Playhouse. It’s a little ironic that the world’s longest running sitcom is about a group of elderly “adolescents” in the twilight of their lives wandering […]
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