Comedy Playhouse (1961)
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.
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Episode 1 - No Strings
Release Date: 1974-04-16Derek advertises for a flatmate. When Leonora arrives his tidy bachelor domain is soon disrupted by a feminine touch.
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Episode 2 - Franklyn and Johnnie
Release Date: 1974-04-23Two old rivals decide to make up at the funeral of a friend.
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Episode 3 - Howerd's History of England
Release Date: 1974-04-30 -
Episode 4 - Happy Ever After
Release Date: 1974-05-07Pilot for BBC's "Happy Ever After" series.
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Episode 5 - The Dobson Doughnut
Release Date: 1974-05-14Terry and June Fletcher are a middle-aged, middle-class couple who find themselves alone when their grown-up children, daughters Susan and Debbie, leave home. However, they are not alone for long as Aunt Lucy comes to live with them, along with her talking mynah bird.Terry frequently hits upon an idea, which due to his foolhardy and obsessive manner he then continues with whatever the consequences, while June remains patient and tolerant.
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Episode 6 - The Big Job
Release Date: 1974-05-21Comedy about a family of incompetent criminals
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Episode 7 - It's Only Me: Whoever I am
Release Date: 1974-05-28A young man struggles to break free of his domineering mother.
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Episode 8 - The Last Man on Earth
Release Date: 1974-06-04A man and his wife wake one morning to discover that everyone else on Earth had just disappeared. After initial disbelief, they settle into looting stores until suddenly they come under mysterious sniper fire at the end.
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Episode 9 - Sitting Pretty
Release Date: 1974-06-11 -
Episode 10 - Pygmalion Smith
Release Date: 1974-06-18Pygmalion 'Smithy' Smith, a less than glamorous photographer at an out of work holiday resort, tries to make a young girl into a star.
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Episode 11 - A Girl's Best Friend
Release Date: 1974-06-25Divorcee Audrey Dalton learns she is going out with the same man as her daughter.
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Episode 12 - The Reverend Wooing of Archibald
Release Date: 1974-07-02Archibald Mulliner enlists the help of his Uncle in wooing the girl of his dreams.
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Episode 13 - French Relish
Release Date: 1974-07-09 -
Episode 14 - Bird Alone
Release Date: 1974-07-16