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COMEDY PLAYHOUSE | A TELEVISION HEAVEN REVIEW (910 words) |
 | Comedy Playhouse was the generic title for a series of unrelated one-off comedies used to showcase the talents of both writers old and new to television -as well as established and up-and-coming sitcom stars, many of whom would go on to become stalwarts of British comedy for years to come. |
| Some classic sitcoms appeared in the Comedy Playhouse time-slot although not under the CP banner, such as Up Pompeii and It Ain't Half Hot Mum, which were broadcast as one-offs when the regular series was taking a break. |
| Although Comedy Playhouse ended with the P G Wodehouse adaptation The Reverent Wooing of Archibald (starring William Mervyn, Julian Holloway and Madeline Smith) in 1974, there have been several attempts to revive the format without success. |
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Comedy Playhouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (164 words) |
| Comedy Playhouse was an occasional BBC television anthology series of the 1960s and early 1970s, consisting of one-off comedic plays with the potential to be turned into regular sitcoms. |
| The most successful series to originate out of Comedy Playhouse were Steptoe and Son (which began as a play called The Offer), Are You Being Served? |
| This comedy or humour related article is a stub. |
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