Comedy Playhouse (1961)
Comedy Playhouse (1961)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
John Cleese
Sherlock Holmes
Joanna Lumley
Samantha Ryder-Ross
Frank Thornton
Captain Peacock / Jessop / Mortimer
John Le Mesurier
(A Creature of Habit) / Caleb Bullrush / Judge
Robert Dorning
Bank Manager / Billy Carter / Colonel
Dennis Main Wilson
Director
Bernard Cribbins
Ambrose Twombly / Arnold / Cakebread
James Gilbert
Director
John Howard Davies
Director
Jilly Cooper
Writer
Eric Fawcett
Director
Harold Snoad
Director
Rob Beckett
Writer
Vere Lorrimer
Director
Shaun Pye
Writer
Sydney Lotterby
Director
Dick Clement
Director / Writer
David Croft
Director
Jim Franklin
Director
Michael Mills
Producer
Ray Galton
Writer
Alan Simpson
Writer
Marty Feldman
Writer
Barry Took
Writer
Jack Rosenthal
Writer
Derek Collyer
Writer
Johnny Speight
Writer
George Evans
Writer
Dennis Spooner
Writer
Michael Pertwee
Writer
Richard Harris
Writer
John Lloyd
Writer
Details.
Wiki.
Comedy Playhouse is a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 128 episodes from 1961 to 1975. Many episodes later graduated to their own series, including Steptoe and Son, Meet the Wife, Till Death Us Do Part, All Gas and Gaiters, Up Pompeii!, Not in Front of the Children, Me Mammy, That's Your Funeral, The Liver Birds, Are You Being Served? and particularly Last of the Summer Wine, which is the world's longest running sitcom, having run from January 1973 to August 2010. In all, 27 sitcoms started from a pilot in the Comedy Playhouse strand.
In March 2014, it was announced that Comedy Playhouse would make a return that year with three new episodes. Two further series each comprising three episodes were broadcast in 2016 and 2017 respectively.