Comedy Playhouse (series 12)

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The '''twelfth series''' of '''''[[Comedy Playhouse]]''''', the long-running [[BBC]] series, aired during 1972, with the last two episode being used as fillers due to the [[Munich massacre]].

==Background==
The twelfth series, which was in colour, consisted of seven episodes, each of which had a different cast and storyline. The [[pilot episode]] of ''[[Are You Being Served?]]'' was intended to be broadcast early in the year but the BBC chose not to broadcast it, and was not transmitted, until the [[Munich massacre]] at the [[1972 Summer Olympics]] necessitated that it was used as a filler.

==Episodes==
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|Idle at Work
|14 January 1972
|30 mins
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|And Whose Side Are You On?
|21 January 1972
|30 mins
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|Born Every Minute
|28 January 1972
|30 mins
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|The Dirtiest Soldier in the World
|27 March 1972
|30 mins
|An adaptation of one story in [[George MacDonald Fraser]]'s ''The General Danced At Dawn''.
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|No Peace on the Western Front
|30 August 1972
|30 mins
|Set in the First World War, starred [[Warren Mitchell]] as a German soldier.
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|Weren't You Marcia Honeywell?
|7 September 1972
|30 mins
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|[[Are You Being Served?]]
|8 September 1972
|30 mins
|Not originally intended to be broadcast, the BBC screened it to fill a gap in the schedules due to the terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics. Became a very long-running programme.
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==References==
*[[Mark Lewisohn]], "Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy", BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2003
*[http://www.phill.co.uk/comedy/complay/index.html British TV Comedy Guide for ''Comedy Playhouse'']
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060221021335/http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/cp.htm Comedy Playhouse, a TV Heaven Review]

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