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Comedy Playhouse

Comedy Playhouse

1961 - 2017

Cliquot et Fils

15th December 1961
Episode 1
An undertaker in 1920s France needs to drum up trade for his ailing business.

Lunch in the Park

22nd December 1961
Episode 2
A pair of office workers have for ten years spent their lunch hour on the same park bench.

The Private Lives of Edward Whitely

29th December 1961
Episode 3
The misadventures of bigamist Edward Whitely.

The Offer

5th January 1962
Episode 4
Harold Steptoe, a middle aged rag and bone man, yearns to break away from the clutches of his elderly, conniving, and disgusting father, but events always conspire against him.

The Reunion

12th January 1962
Episode 5
A reunion doesn't go as planned.

The Telephone Call

19th June 1962
Episode 6
A worried man uses his phone to do something about the troubled world.

The Status Symbol

26th January 1962
Episode 7
A garage owner doesn't want to return a customer's Rolls Royce because he he likes the way it looks in his yard.

Visiting Day

2nd February 1962
Episode 8
A group of hospital patients prepare for visiting day.

Sealed with a Loving Kiss

9th February 1962
Episode 9
A pair of penpals decide to meet for the first time, but they haven't been telling the truth about themselves.

The Channel Swimmer

16th February 1962
Episode 10
A man determines to swim the Channel.
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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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