Comedy Playhouse
1961–1975 British television series / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Comedy Playhouse[1] is a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 128 episodes from 1961 to 1975. Many episodes later graduated to their own series, including Steptoe and Son, Meet the Wife, Till Death Us Do Part, All Gas and Gaiters, Up Pompeii!, Not in Front of the Children, Me Mammy, That's Your Funeral, The Liver Birds, Are You Being Served? and particularly Last of the Summer Wine, which is the world's longest running sitcom, having run from January 1973 to August 2010. In all, 27 sitcoms started from a pilot in the Comedy Playhouse strand.
Comedy Playhouse | |
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Created by | Tom Sloan |
Starring | Various |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 137 (95 missing) |
Production | |
Running time | Usually 25 minutes, 30 minutes or 35 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | BBC1 |
Release | 15 December 1961 (1961-12-15) – 9 July 1975 (1975-07-09) |
Release | 29 April 2014 (2014-04-29) – 15 September 2017 (2017-09-15) |
In March 2014, it was announced that Comedy Playhouse would make a return that year with three new episodes.[2] Two further series each comprising three episodes were broadcast in 2016 and 2017 respectively.[3][4]