Citizen James was a BBC sitcom that ran for 3 series between 24th November 1960 and 1962. The show featured comedian and actor Sid James (best remembered for his roles in the Carry On films), Bill Kerr and Liz Fraser, and was written by the comedy writing team of Galton and Simpson. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is largest the publicly-funded radio and television broadcasting corporation of the United Kingdom (see British television). ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... Sid James (8 May 1913 - 26 April 1976) was a film and television actor. ... The Carry On films were a long-running series of British popular low-budget comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. ... Bill Kerr (born 1922) is an actor. ... Liz Fraser (born August 14, 1933) is a British actress, from London. ... Comedy is the use of humor in the form of theater, where it simply referred to a play with a happy ending, in contrast to a tragedy. ... Ray Galton OBE (born 1930), and Alan Simpson OBE (born 1929), are British scriptwriters who met in 1948 at a tuberculosis sanatorium in London. ...