Comedy Playhouse (1961)
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.
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Episode 1 - On The Knocker
Release Date: 1963-09-28Exploits of door-to-door salesman Ronnie Fender.
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Episode 2 - Underworld Nights
Release Date: 1963-10-05Exploits of crime writer Vogler.
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Episode 3 - Fools Rush In
Release Date: 1963-10-12A retired Major tries to adjust to civilian life.
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Episode 4 - Shamrot
Release Date: 1963-10-19Dermot is a London-born Irishman who hates everything about England, but has never even been to the ""Old Country.""
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Episode 5 - The Bachelor Girls
Release Date: 1963-10-26Two young girls about town share a flat.
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Episode 6 - The Plan
Release Date: 1963-11-02Albert Fawkes hates his surname and rebels against it by trying to re-enact the Gunpowder Plot.
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Episode 7 - A Picture of Innocence
Release Date: 1963-11-09Northern Arthur Berry develops an interest in art.
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Episode 8 - Nicked at the Bottle
Release Date: 1963-11-16Lawyer Mossy advises Mrs Emily Trout and her family of crooks.
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Episode 9 - The Chars
Release Date: 1963-11-23Exploits of two charladies at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
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Episode 10 - Comrades in Arms
Release Date: 1963-11-30A window cleaner witnesses an extramarital affair and is soon involved in farcical cover-up shenanigans.
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Episode 11 - The Walrus and the Carpenter
Release Date: 1963-12-14Exploits of a pair of mismatched elderly friends.
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Episode 12 - The Bed
Release Date: 1963-12-28The ups and downs of a Northern married couple.
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Episode 13 - The Mate Market
Release Date: 1964-01-03Exploits of marriage bureau owner John Cook.
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Episode 14 - The Hen House
Release Date: 1964-01-10Mrs Fanwyn runs her Khartoum House Girls Hostel with a firm hand.
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Episode 15 - The Siege of Sydney's Street
Release Date: 1964-01-17Sydney Lord hates beaurocracy and determines to fight it whenever he finds it.
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Episode 16 - The Mascot
Release Date: 1964-01-24Mad keen football fan Arnold Birtwhistle is mascot of Northtown Football Club, but new chairman Mr Gibson wants to change the club's image.
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Episode 17 - Good Luck Sir, You've Got A Lucky Face
Release Date: 1964-01-31Match seller Gomorrah Weevil tangles with slum landlord Harold Harbinger.