Comedy Playhouse
1961 · 18 seasons · 142 episodes · Ended · BBC One
Comedy
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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.
Episodes
- S01E01Cliquot et Fils1961-12-1530m
An undertaker in 1920s France needs to drum up trade for his ailing business.
- S01E02Lunch in the Park1961-12-2230m
A pair of office workers have for ten years spent their lunch hour on the same park bench.
- S01E03The Private Lives of Edward Whitely1961-12-2930m
The misadventures of bigamist Edward Whitely.
- S01E04The Offer1962-01-0530m
Harold Steptoe, a middle aged rag and bone man, yearns to break away from the clutches of his elderly, conniving, and disgusting father, but events always conspire against him.
- S01E05The Reunion1962-01-1230m
A reunion doesn't go as planned.
- S01E06The Telephone Call1962-06-1930m
A worried man uses his phone to do something about the troubled world.
- S01E07The Status Symbol1962-01-2630m
A garage owner doesn't want to return a customer's Rolls Royce because he he likes the way it looks in his yard.
- S01E08Visiting Day1962-02-0230m
A group of hospital patients prepare for visiting day.
- S01E09Sealed with a Loving Kiss1962-02-0930m
A pair of penpals decide to meet for the first time, but they haven't been telling the truth about themselves.
- S01E10The Channel Swimmer1962-02-1630m
A man determines to swim the Channel.
