Comedy Playhouse (1961)

Genre

anthology series, comedy television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

18 seasons, 142 episodes

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This British series ran from 1961 to 1975 and later returned for short runs in the 2010s. It presented standalone comedy pilots, many of which led to their own long-running shows.

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What happens

Comedy Playhouse is a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 128 episodes from 1961 to 1975. Many episodes later graduated to their own series, including Steptoe and Son, Meet the Wife, Till Death Us Do Part, All Gas and Gaiters, Up Pompeii!, Not in Front of the Children, Me Mammy, That's Your Funeral, The Liver Birds, Are You Being Served? and particularly Last of the Summer Wine, which is the world's longest running sitcom, having run from January 1973 to August 2010. In all, 27 sitcoms started from a pilot in the Comedy Playhouse strand. In March 2014, it was announced that Comedy Playhouse would make a return that year with three new episodes. Two further series each comprising three episodes were broadcast in 2016 and 2017 respectively. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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