Category: Sitcoms
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Clipping Up Appearances
Hyacinth Bucket debuted on our screens in October of 1990. With it’s first episode, Keeping Up Appearances hit the ground running, winning an audience of 11.4 million. And it did that with little or no fanfare in the papers, though I’m sure it was heavily trailed on the channel. Apparently, it only takes 30 seconds…
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Marti Caine’s Hilary
Marti Caine’s sitcom Hilary was written by Peter Vincent (one half of Sorry!‘s writing team) and Peter Robinson. The pilot aired in December of 1984 on BBC Two. Here’s how it was announced in The Mirror, along with whispers of a new soap opera that was to become Albion Market. On the day that the…
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2point4 Christmasses
By the end of just its second series, 2point4 Children was given a well-deserved Christmas slot in 1992. It aired on the 22nd December, the day before Waiting For God‘s first festive special, and was watched by 9.5 million people. To put that in some perspective, a repeat of The Good Life that same week…
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Till Christmas Us Do Part
After taking a long look at the press coverage of the Only Fools And Horses festive editions, we saw that a lot of the channels’ focus was on movies. I assumed this was a relatively recent thing, from the mid-1980s onwards, but twas ever thus. It’s well worth clicking the image and reading it all…
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Only Yules And Horses (Part Five)
Given the huge ratings success of Only Fools And Horses‘ finale trilogy, I suppose it was inevitable there would be pressure from all angles to return to the show. Whatever one might think of the choice to make more, the news of that was oddly low key. And here’s how the Dublin Evening Herald previewed…
