Comedy Playhouse

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.

Comedy

Comedy Playhouse

Comedy

Created By
First Aired on: Dec 15, 1961
Popularity: 6.8438: 2 votes
Networks: (GB)
Status: Ended: Show Ended

Seasons & episodes

Total 18 seasons, 142 episodes

Season 1

Aired 63 years ago

10 Episodes

Episode 1Cliquot et Fils30 min
An undertaker in 1920s France needs to drum up trade for his ailing business.
Episode 2Lunch in the Park30 min
A pair of office workers have for ten years spent their lunch hour on the same park bench.
Episode 3The Private Lives of Edward Whitely30 min
The misadventures of bigamist Edward Whitely.
Episode 4The Offer30 min
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.
Episode 5The Reunion30 min
A reunion doesn't go as planned.