Category: Comedy
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Peter Sellers And Spike Milligan Came This Close To Making A 70s Sitcom
Two facts crop up in everything I’ve read about the sitcom The Melting Pot. One, that the pilot was only ever broadcast once, and two, that a full series of six episodes was later filmed and never shown on TV. According to some sources, Milligan thinks this was because the scripts weren’t good enough, and…
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Mr Bean’s Limited Potential On Radio
Considering that it went on to win the Rose D’Or, be watched by upwards of 18 million people, and spawned two movies that have grossed half a billion dollars between them, Mr Bean arrived on our screens with a relative whisper. The first mention of the show appears in this article about Paul Bown, star…
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The Saturday Night Armisclips
I really enjoyed The Saturday/Friday Night Armistice when it was on, and every now and then I seek it out again and rewatch it. In researching this blog, I also realise that it may have been directly responsible for my Seinfeld obsession. On the 16th March 1995, the Birmingham Daily Post featured a long article…
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Clips Of Fun
I don’t know why, but it seems apropos to begin a trawl through the newspaper clippings for Fist Of Fun with this little snippet from the Amersham Advertiser. It’s one of the first mentions of the series I can find, and appeared on Wednesday 15th March 1995. The series began just a month later, so…
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Terry And June Take A Close Look At Themselves In The Mirror
I think it’s fair to say that the Daily Mirror were not fans of the sitcom Terry And June. From the moment the show was announced as a retooling of Happy Ever After, the snark in their coverage of the show was apparent. Take this, from the 20th October 1979, as an example. Tony Pratt…
