History of British Sitcom

Ben Lyon, wife Bebe plus children Richard and Barbara play themselves handling everyday situations with any crisis taken care of. Aggie is their Scottish housekeeper and Florrie Wainwright their nosy neighbor.

TV version of the popular BBC radio show of the same name, with Tony Hancock as the modern man of the world (in his own eyes). Sid James is there to bring him back to earth.

The exploits of a bunch of army conscripts.

66 Sycamore Street is home to the Larkins. Alf refuses to believe that he's henpecked. Ada's determined to make sure that he is.

Former Sergeant Major Claude Snudge meets up with Corporal Bootsie when they both start work at an exclusive Gentlemen's Club.

In the first series of this comedy programme, Sid James played a rather immoral man whose schemes never worked out. In the second and third series, his character became more sympathetic and well-intentioned.

A weekly TV comedy series of a British household with Dickie Henderson as the head of the family. Every week would feature a guest star

Early, now forgotten sitcom about a jazz musician with a frantic love life, written for Michael Medwin, then a TV comedy star following "Army Game, The" (1957). Brian Wilde left the series, and the role of Mike's flatmate, early on and was replaced by Bernard Fox (I): three of the cast from this, Medwin, Fox and George Roderick, re-teamed the following year in "Three Live Wires" (1961).

Nine incompatible people chip in together to purchase and inhabit a run-down house. Librarian Georgina Ruddy (Hattie Jacques) who must keep quiet at work all day so makes up for it by being extremely noisy at home with council official Simon Willow (Charles Hawtrey) and unemployable Daisy Burke (Joan Sims). The rest of misfits include young Norman Rossington as law student Gordon Brent; newlyweds; and a shy bank clerk and his violin-playing wife. Although series two of "Our House" had 26 episodes, ITV decided to stop showing them in the London area after just seven fortnightly airings. The remaining 19 episodes were seen on a weekly basis elsewhere in the country.

Gurney Slade wanders from place to place after breaking the fourth wall to escape from the mundanities of making a family sitcom.

Comedian Tony Hancock stars, in this BBC situation comedy TV series, as Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living in East Cheam.

In the clothing factory, foreman Reg Turner faces challenges from the mischievous machinist women led by Paddy Fleming while they complete weekly orders, constantly devising schemes to make life difficult for the boss, Harold Fenner.

Terry Scott is a youngish bachelor who wants to achieve wealth without putting in any hard work. The scheming Terry lives with his mother at 33, Lobelia Avenue in Tooting, London. They have a simple and easily led lodger, Hugh Lloyd, who works at a local aircraft factory. The two often try to make money through one of Scott's schemes. Their next door neighbours, the Crispins and the Wormolds, also make frequent appearances. Mr Crispin is a loud mouth who thinks violence will solve a problem, Mrs Crispin is a snob and their daughter Norma is constantly chased after by men. On the other side, the Wormolds are an old couple with Harold being very doddery. In the last episode of the fifth series, Hugh won £5,000 on the Premium Bonds (the highest prize at the time) and the following series showed the two of them undertaking a world cruise. The neighbours and mother had left the show.

It's a Living placed long-time comedy double-act Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss in a small general store who are hard-working, thrifty and law-abiding trying to make a living. They are assisted by Ben's wife Bertha and their daughter Betty.

British sitcom about a father-and-son rag-and-bone business in London. The intergenerational divide between the miserly Steptoe and his ambitious son results in comedy, drama, and tragedy.

Newlyweds Kate and George Starling begin with George toiling as a junior clerk and Kate toiling as a homemaker; she's is soon bored with domesticity and he longs to go out with the boys. After several years, daughter Helen joins them.

The trials and tribulations of the Vicar of the village of Felgate.