Spencer Jones
Comedy Playhouse (1961)
Season 1
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.
Released Dec. 15, 1961
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Comedy
Keywords: tmdb.anthology, imdb.comedic-anthology, imdb.humor, imdb.partially-lost-tv-series, imdb.anthology, imdb.parody-comedy
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Cliquot et Fils
An undertaker in 1920s France needs to drum up trade for his ailing business.
Dec. 15, 1961, midnight
S1E2 - Lunch in the Park
A pair of office workers have for ten years spent their lunch hour on the same park bench.
Dec. 22, 1961, midnight
S1E3 - The Private Lives of Edward Whitely
The misadventures of bigamist Edward Whitely.
Dec. 29, 1961, midnight
S1E4 - The Offer
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.
Jan. 5, 1962, midnight
S1E5 - The Reunion
A reunion doesn't go as planned.
Jan. 12, 1962, midnight
S1E6 - The Telephone Call
A worried man uses his phone to do something about the troubled world.
June 19, 1962, midnight
S1E7 - The Status Symbol
A garage owner doesn't want to return a customer's Rolls Royce because he he likes the way it looks in his yard.
Jan. 26, 1962, midnight
S1E8 - Visiting Day
A group of hospital patients prepare for visiting day.
Feb. 2, 1962, midnight
S1E9 - Sealed with a Loving Kiss
A pair of penpals decide to meet for the first time, but they haven't been telling the truth about themselves.
Feb. 9, 1962, midnight
S1E10 - The Channel Swimmer
A man determines to swim the Channel.
Feb. 16, 1962, midnight
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: Dec. 15, 1961
Last Air Date: Sept. 15, 2017, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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