Category: Sitcoms
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We’ll Think Of Something, Jacko
Sam Kelly has appeared in a number of excellent comedy roles in his time, not least as Warren in Porridge and Hans in ‘Allo ‘Allo. It’s rather suprirsing then that he never really got a chance to lead a sitcom, given those great performances. But he was the starring role in ITV’s We’ll Think Of…
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Blind Men
Nick Hancock wrote a sitcom. He co-wrote it with the sitcom’s creator Chris England. It was on ITV at the end of 1997, and starred Jesse Birdsall and Tamsin Greig. It was not called Me, You And Him, nor was it called Holding The Baby. It was called Blind Men, and it was about men…
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The Fifth Seinfeld
This isn’t quite the fun of the fifth housemate in The Young Ones, or the mystery of the dog bowl in Bottom, but after Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer, the character who appears most in Seinfeld is Ruthie Cohen. She appears in 101 of 180 episodes, and has a speaking role in three (The Gum,…
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Dogfood Dan and the Carmarthen Cowboy
David Nobbs is of course more famous for his Reggie Perrin sitcoms, but in 1988 he wrote a BBC One series called Dogfood Dan and the Carmarthen Cowboy. It starred Peter Blake and Malcolm Storry, who played long-distance lorry drivers who often crossed paths on their way up and down the country. Unbeknownst to either,…
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The Climber
In the early weeks of 1983, a sitcom aired on BBC One for six episodes. The Climber was written by Alex Shearer, and starred Robin Nedwell. The Radio Times described the first episode, which aired on the 20th January, like this: When he adds up his score in an intelligence test and finds he has…
