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.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Cliquot et Fils
15-12-196130mAn undertaker in 1920s France needs to drum up trade for his ailing business.
- Ep 2
2.Lunch in the Park
22-12-196130mA pair of office workers have for ten years spent their lunch hour on the same park bench.
- Ep 3
3.The Private Lives of Edward Whitely
29-12-196130mThe misadventures of bigamist Edward Whitely.
- Ep 4
4.The Offer
05-01-196230mHarold 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.
- Ep 5
5.The Reunion
12-01-196230mA reunion doesn't go as planned.
- Ep 6
6.The Telephone Call
19-06-196230mA worried man uses his phone to do something about the troubled world.
- Ep 7
7.The Status Symbol
26-01-196230mA garage owner doesn't want to return a customer's Rolls Royce because he he likes the way it looks in his yard.
- Ep 8
8.Visiting Day
02-02-196230mA group of hospital patients prepare for visiting day.
- Ep 9
9.Sealed with a Loving Kiss
09-02-196230mA pair of penpals decide to meet for the first time, but they haven't been telling the truth about themselves.
- Ep 10
10.The Channel Swimmer
16-02-196230mA man determines to swim the Channel.
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