Comedy Playhouse

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{{Short description|1961–1975 British television series}}
{{about|the BBC series|the equivalent ITV series|ITV Playhouse}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2018}}
{{Infobox television
| image = Comedy Playhouse.jpg
| caption = Titlecard for the 1961/1962 series episode "The Offer". This episode was the pilot for ''Steptoe and Son''.
| runtime = Usually 25 minutes, 30 minutes or 35 minutes
| creator = [[Tom Sloan (television executive)|Tom Sloan]]
| starring = Various
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| network = [[BBC1]]
| picture_format = [[405-line]] [[Black and white]] (1961–1967) [[625-line]] Black-and-white (1968–1969) 625-line [[PAL]] (1970–1975) [[1080i]] [[HDTV]] (2014–2017)
| audio_format = Monaural (1961–1975) [[Surround Sound|Surround sound 5.1]] (2014–2017)
| first_aired = {{Plainlist|
* '''Original Series''' {{Start date|1961|12|15|df=y}} – {{End date|1975|07|09|df=y}}
* '''Revived Series''' {{Start date|2014|04|29|df=y}} – {{End date|2017|09|15|df=y}}
}}
| last_aired =
| num_episodes = 129 (98 missing)
}}

'''''Comedy Playhouse'''''<ref>{{cite web|title=Comedy Playhouse|date=1961-12-15|website=[[IMDb]]|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0861749/|type=Comedy|publisher=[[British Broadcasting Corporation]] (BBC)|access-date=2022-01-28}}</ref> is a long-running British [[anthology series]] of one-off unrelated [[Situation comedy|sitcoms]] that aired for 120 episodes from 1961 to 1975. Many episodes later graduated to their own series, including ''[[Steptoe and Son]]'', ''[[Meet the Wife (TV series)|Meet the Wife]]'', ''[[Till Death Us Do Part]]'', ''[[All Gas and Gaiters]]'', ''[[Up Pompeii!]]'', ''[[Not in Front of the Children (TV series)|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 March 2014, it was announced that ''Comedy Playhouse'' would make a return that year with three new episodes.<ref name="Comedy Playhouse Returns">{{cite news |title=BBC1 to revive 'Comedy Playhouse' after 40 years |author=Ian Burrell |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/bbc1-to-revive-comedy-playhouse-after-40-years-in-bid-to-reduce-risk-on-new-sitcoms-9197707.html |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |date=17 March 2014 |access-date=25 March 2014}}</ref>

==Background==
The series began in 1961 at the prompting of [[Tom Sloan (broadcaster)|Tom Sloan]], Head of BBC Light Entertainment at the time. Galton and Simpson were no longer writing for [[Tony Hancock]] and Sloan asked them to write ten one-offs with the hope that one might become established as a series.<ref>Radio Times, 25 March 1971</ref> Thus, the first two series of ''Comedy Playhouse'' were written by [[Galton and Simpson|Ray Galton]] and [[Galton and Simpson|Alan Simpson]], but after that the episodes were written by various writers. In all, 27 series started from a pilot in the ''Comedy Playhouse''. The first eight series were in [[black-and-white]], with the rest being in colour. Like many television programmes from the time, many of 1960s & 1970s episodes are [[Wiping|lost]]. As a result, 98 episodes are currently missing from the archives. In Australia the series was broadcast on [[ABC Television (Australian TV network)|ABC Television]] in the early 1960s-late 1970s.

==Episodes==

===Series One (1961–1962)===
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The pilot episode of ''[[Steptoe and Son]]'' was broadcast as an episode.

===Series Two (1963)===
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===Series Three (1963–1964)===
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The pilot episodes of ''The Walrus and the Carpenter'' and ''[[Meet the Wife (TV series)|Meet the Wife]]'' were broadcast as episodes.

===Series Four (1965)===

* "Barnaby Spoot and the Exploding Whoopee Cushion" (28 May 1965) starring [[John Bird (actor)|John Bird]], [[John Le Mesurier]], [[Ronald Lacey]], [[Sheila Steafel]], [[Alister Williamson]], [[Bart Allison]], [[Bill Burridge]] and [[Sidney Johnson (actor)|Sidney Johnson]]
* "Mother Came Two" (5 June 1965) starring [[Peggy Mount]] and [[Graham Stark]]
* "Here I Come Whoever I Am" (11 June 1965) starring [[Bernard Cribbins]], [[Helen Fraser (actress)|Helen Fraser]], [[Mike Pratt (actor)|Mike Pratt]], [[Edward Evans (actor)|Edward Evans]] and [[Maureen Lane]]. This sitcom with the same characters was featured in the "Lust" segment of the 1971 film ''[[The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins]]''.
* "Happy Family" (18 June 1965) starring [[Ted Ray (comedian)|Ted Ray]], [[Daphne Anderson]] and [[Judy Geeson]]
* "Memoirs of a Chaise Longue" (2 July 1965) starring [[John Le Mesurier]], [[Betty Marsden]], [[Fenella Fielding]], [[Jack Watling]] and [[Shay Gorman]]
* "Murray and Me" (8 July 1965) starring [[Chic Murray]]
* "Hudd" (15 July 1965) starring [[Roy Hudd]] and [[Noel Dyson]]
* ''[[Till Death Us Do Part]]'' (22 July 1965) starring [[Warren Mitchell]], [[Gretchen Franklin]], [[Tony Booth (actor)|Anthony Booth]], [[Derek Nimmo]] and [[Eric Dodson]]. Franklin was replaced by [[Dandy Nichols]] in the TV series but went on to play [[ Ethel Skinner]] in [[EastEnders]].
* "The Time and the Motion Man" (29 July 1965) starring [[Leslie Phillips]] and [[Richard Moore (actor)|Richard Moore]]
* "Sam the Samaritan" (5 August 1965) starring [[Wilfrid Brambell]], [[John Junkin]], [[Roy Kinnear]] and [[John Scott Martin]]
* ''[[The Vital Spark]]'' (12 August 1965) starring [[Roddy McMillan]]
* "Betsy Mae" (19 August 1965) starring [[Hermione Gingold]], [[Nicholas Phipps]] and [[Michael Gover]]

===Series Five (1966)===

* "The Bishop Rides Again" (17 May 1966) starring [[Robertson Hare]], [[William Mervyn]], [[Derek Nimmo]], [[John Barron (actor)|John Barron]], [[James Beck]] and [[Cheryl Molineaux]]. This was the pilot episode of the BBC series, ''[[All Gas and Gaiters]]''
* ''[[Beggar My Neighbour (TV series)|Beggar My Neighbour]]'' (24 May 1966) starring [[Reg Varney]]
* "A Little Learning" (31 May 1966) starring [[Jack Hulbert]], [[Cicely Courtneidge]] and [[Clive Morton]]
* "Judgement Day for Elijah Jones" (7 June 1966) starring [[Clive Dunn]], [[Bernard Cribbins]], [[Derek Martin]] and [[Peter Diamond (actor)|Peter Diamond]]
* "Room at the Bottom" (14 June 1966) starring [[Kenneth Connor]], [[Deryck Guyler]], [[Francis Matthews (actor)|Francis Matthews]], [[Brian Wilde]], [[Erik Chitty]] and [[Godfrey James]]. This was the pilot episode of the BBC [[Room at the Bottom (1967 TV series)|series of the same name]].
* "The End of the Tunnel" (21 June 1966) starring [[George Cole (actor)|George Cole]], [[Lynn Redgrave]], [[Tenniel Evans]] and [[Michael Spice]]
* "Seven Year Hitch" (28 June 1966) starring [[Harry H. Corbett]], [[Joan Sims]] and [[John Baskcomb]]
* "The Mallard Imaginaire" (5 July 1966) starring [[Robert Coote]], [[Moira Lister]], [[Daphne Anderson]] and [[Arthur Howard]]. This was the pilot episode of the BBC series, The Whitehall Worrier.
* ''[[The Reluctant Romeo]]'' (2 August 1966) starring [[Leslie Crowther]], [[Amanda Barrie]], [[Keith Pyott]] and [[Sheila Steafel]]

===Series Six (1967)===

* "Hughie" (19 May 1967) starring [[Hugh Lloyd]], [[Patrick Cargill]] and [[Michael Sheard]]
* "House in a Tree" (26 May 1967) starring [[Wendy Craig]], [[Paul Daneman]], [[Roberta Tovey]] and [[Kenneth Thornett]]. This was the pilot episode for the BBC series ''[[Not in Front of the Children (TV series)|Not in Front of the Children]]''.
* "Spanner in the Works" (2 June 1967) starring [[Jimmy Jewel]], [[Norman Rossington]], [[Julian Holloway]], [[Arnold Peters (actor)|Arnold Peters]], [[Eric Dodson]], [[Jon Rollason]], [[Peter Bathurst (actor)|Peter Bathurst]], [[Blake Butler]] and [[Colin Douglas (actor)|Colin Douglas]]
* "Heirs on a Shoestring" (9 June 1967) starring [[Jimmy Edwards]], [[Clive Dunn]], [[Sam Kydd]], [[Frances Bennett]] and [[Eileen Way]]
* "Uncle Fred Flits By" (16 June 1967) starring [[Wilfrid Hyde-White]], [[Ballard Berkeley]], [[Gordon Rollings]] and [[Richard McNeff]]
* "Loitering with Intent" (23 June 1967) starring [[Daphne Anderson]], [[David Tomlinson]], [[Rudolph Walker]], [[John Nettleton (actor)|John Nettleton]], [[Barry Fantoni]] and [[Madeleine Mills]]
* "To Lucifer: A Son" (29 June 1967) starring [[John Le Mesurier]], [[Jimmy Tarbuck]], [[Pat Coombs]] and [[Gábor Baraker]]
* "The Old Campaigner" (30 June 1967) starring [[Terry-Thomas]], [[Derek Fowlds]], [[Norman Claridge]], [[Brian Cullingford]], [[Susan Jameson]] and [[André Maranne]]

===Series Seven (1968)===

* "State of the Union" (26 April 1968) starring [[Les Dawson]], [[Patsy Rowlands]], [[Michael Robbins]], [[Melvyn Hayes]], [[Edward Evans (actor)|Edward Evans]] and [[Roma Tomelty]]
* "View by Appointment" (3 May 1968) starring [[Beryl Reid]], [[Hugh Paddick]], [[Derek Fowlds]], [[Pauline Collins]] and [[John Harvey (actor)|John Harvey]]. This was the pilot episode for the BBC series, Wink to Me Only.
* "The Family of Fred" (10 May 1968) starring [[Freddie Frinton]] and [[Jean Kent]]. This was the pilot episode for the BBC series, Thicker Than Water.
* "Stiff Upper Lip" (17 May 1968) starring [[Richard Vernon]], [[Michael Bates (actor)|Michael Bates]], [[Bernard Bresslaw]], [[George Baker (British actor)|George Baker]] and [[John Glyn-Jones]]
* ''[[Wild, Wild Women]]'' (24 May 1968) starring [[Barbara Windsor]], [[Derek Francis]], [[Penelope Keith]] and [[Colette Gleeson]]
* "Current Affairs" (31 May 1968) starring [[Harold Goodwin (English actor)|Harold Goodwin]], [[Robert Dorning]], [[Damaris Hayman]], [[Bruce Wightman]], [[Roger Avon]] and [[Eric Francis (actor)|Eric Francis]]
* ''[[B-And-B]]'' (7 June 1968) starring [[Pauline Collins]]
* ''[[Me Mammy]]'' (14 June 1968) starring [[Milo O'Shea]], [[Yootha Joyce]] and [[Neil Hallett]]
* "The Gold Watch Club" (28 June 1968) starring [[Dennis Price]], [[Peter Bayliss]], [[Bob Todd]], [[Derek Waring]], [[Barbara Leake]], [[Roger Avon]] and [[Norman Mitchell]]

===Series Eight (1969)===

* ''[[The Liver Birds]]'' (14 April 1969) starring [[Pauline Collins]], [[Polly James]], [[Roy Marsden]] and [[Hugh Walters (actor)|Hugh Walter]]. Collins was replaced by [[Nerys Hughes]] as new character Sandra in the TV series.
* "The Valley Express" (21 April 1969) starring [[Nerys Hughes]], [[Graeme Garden]], [[Richard Davies (Welsh actor)|Richard Davies]] and [[James Appleby]]
* "Tooth and Claw" (28 April 1969) starring [[Warren Mitchell]], [[Marty Feldman]], [[Richard Caldicot]], [[Anthony Dawes]], [[Arnold Diamond]], [[David Rowlands (actor)|David Rowlands]] and [[Harry Brooks Jr.]]
* ''[[As Good Cooks Go]]'' (5 May 1969) starring [[Brian Grellis]] and [[James Appleby]]
* "The Loves of Larch Hill" (12 May 1969) starring [[Robert Dorning]], [[Gillian Blake]] and [[Denis Cleary]]
* "The Making of Peregrine" (19 May 1969) starring [[Dick Emery]], [[Pat Coombs]], [[Andrew Ray]] and [[Sam Kydd]]
* ''[[Up Pompeii!]]'' (17 September 1969) starring [[Frankie Howerd]], [[Max Adrian]], [[John Junkin]], [[Aubrey Woods]] and [[Richard McNeff]]. This was the pilot episode of the series of the same name which ran for two series and two specials.

===Series Nine (1969–1970)===
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===Series Ten (1970)===

* "Keep 'Em Rolling" (11 March 1970) starring [[Derek Nimmo]], [[Timothy Bateson]], [[Gordon Rollings]], [[Michael Collins (English actor)|Michael Collins]] and [[Peter Diamond (actor)|Peter Diamond]]
* "Better Than a Man" (18 March 1970) starring [[Sheila Hancock]], [[Leslie Sands]], [[Willoughby Goddard]] and [[Bartlett Mullins]]
* "Last Tribute" (25 March 1970) starring [[Bill Fraser]] and [[Raymond Huntley]], the pilot episode of [[That's Your Funeral]]
* "Haven of Rest" (1 April 1970) starring [[Ballard Berkeley]], [[Deryck Guyler]], [[John Le Mesurier]], [[Colin Gordon]] and [[Vivienne Bennett]]
* "Mind Your Own Business" (8 July 1970) starring [[Norman Bird]], [[Hilda Fenemore]], [[Derek Griffiths]], [[Tony Selby]] and [[Cheryl Hall]]
* "The Old Contemptible" (15 July 1970) starring [[Arthur English]], [[Gretchen Franklin]], [[John Sharp (actor)|John Sharp]], [[Michael Osborne (actor)|Michael Osborne]], [[Derrick Gilbert]] and [[Kenneth Thornett]]
* "Don't Ring Us...We'll Ring You" (29 July 1970) starring [[John Junkin]], [[Norman Rossington]], [[Colin Welland]] and [[Barbara Knox]]
* "Meter Maids" (5 August 1970) starring [[Pat Coombs]], [[Joan Sanderson]], [[Barbara Windsor]], [[Martin Wyldeck]] and [[Robert Lankesheer]]

===Series Eleven (1971)===

* "Just Harry and Me" (1 April 1971) starring [[Sheila Hancock]], [[Donald Houston]] and [[Lynne Frederick]]. This was the pilot episode. The series was broadcast in two sections, the first of six episodes, then a break, followed by another seven episodes. 26 scripts were short-listed and this was pared down to 13.
* "Uncle Tulip" (8 April 1971) starring [[Geoffrey Lumsden]], [[Renu Setna]] and [[Madhav Sharma]]
* ''[[It's Awfully Bad For Your Eyes, Darling]]'' (15 April 1971) starring [[Joanna Lumley]]
* ''[[The Rough with the Smooth]]'' (22 April 1971) written by and starring [[Tim Brooke-Taylor]], [[John Junkin]], [[Richard McNeff]] and [[Terence Brook]]. One series of seven episodes was broadcast in 1975.
* "Equal Partners" (29 April 1971) starring [[Nicky Henson]] and [[Angela Scoular]]
* "The Importance of Being Hairy" (6 May 1971) starring [[John Cater]], [[James Copeland (actor)|James Copeland]], [[Gerald Flood]], [[John Cater]], [[Gilly Flower]] and [[David Simeon]]

===Series Twelve (1972)===
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The first episode of ''[[Are You Being Served?]]'' was broadcast as an episode, although this episode was used as a filler following the Munich Olympics terrorist attack, the BBC having originally declined broadcasting it.

===Series Thirteen (1973)===

* "Of Funerals and Fish" (4 January 1973) starring [[Bill Owen (actor)|Bill Owen]], [[Peter Sallis]], [[Blake Butler]], [[Jane Freeman (actress)|Jane Freeman]] and [[Kathy Staff]]. The pilot episode of the World's longest-running sitcom, ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]''.
* "The Rescue" (11 January 1973) starring [[Moyra Fraser]], [[Peter Jones (actor)|Peter Jones]], [[Lucita Lijertwood]] and [[Nicholas Parsons]].
* "Elementary, My Dear Watson: The Strange Case of the Dead Solicitors" (18 January 1973) starring [[John Cleese]], [[Willie Rushton]], [[Bill Maynard]], [[Norman Bird]], [[Larry Martyn]], [[Michael Gover]], [[Ivor Salter]], [[Gordon Faith]] and [[Dawn Addams]].
* "The Birthday" (25 January 1973) starring [[Gordon Peters]], [[Frank Thornton]], [[Bill Pertwee]], [[Mary Millar]] and [[Edward Evans (actor)|Edward Evans]].
* "Marry the Girls" (1 February 1973) starring [[John Le Mesurier]], [[Barbara Murray]], [[Sally Thomsett]], [[David Simeon]] and [[John Leeson]].
* "Home from Home" (8 February 1973) starring [[Carmel McSharry]], [[Michael Robbins]], [[Yootha Joyce]], [[Tony Selby]] and [[Olive Mercer]]. Bill Collins may not have been the greatest husband of all time but when his wife moves into a bed-sitter and becomes a traffic warden – intent on making him her most frequent victim – things have gone too far.

===Series Fourteen (1974)===

* "''[[No Strings (1974 TV series)|No Strings]]'' (16 April 1974) starring [[Keith Barron]] and [[Rita Tushingham]]. Derek advertises for a flatmate. When Leonora arrives his tidy bachelor domain is soon disrupted by a feminine touch.
* "Franklyn and Johnnie" (23 April 1974) starring [[Geoffrey Bayldon]], [[Ronnie Barker]], [[Richard Hurndall]], [[Sydney Bromley]] and [[Hugh Morton (actor)|Hugh Morton]]. Franklyn and Johnnie have been enemies for 40 years. Could it be that the death of their one mutual friend might heal the breach?
* "Howerd's History of England" (30 April 1974) starring [[Frankie Howerd]], [[Patrick Newell]] and [[Patrick Holt]]
* ''[[Happy Ever After (British TV series)|Happy Ever After]]'' (7 May 1974) starring [[Terry Scott]], [[June Whitfield]], [[Dave Carter (actor)|Dave Carter]] and [[Philip Ryan (actor)|Philip Ryan]]. After the end of Happy Ever After, Terry Scott and June Whitfield would go on to play similar characters in the popular sitcom [[Terry and June]].
* "The Dobson Doughnut" (14 May 1974) starring [[Milo O'Shea]], [[Bernard Spear]], [[Jo Kendall]], [[Brian Miller (actor)|Brian Miller]], [[John Ringham]] and [[Ken Barker (actor)|Ken Barker]]
* "The Big Job (21 May 1974)" starring [[Prunella Scales]], [[Peter Jones (actor)|Peter Jones]], [[Alfred Marks]], [[Andonia Katsaros]], [[Nick Brimble]] and [[Aubrey Woods]]. 'Half a million in used notes'-Eddie's perennial dream. But when he tries his hand at kidnapping, the results are disastrous.
* "It's Only Me: Whoever I Am" (28 May 1974) starring [[David Jason]], [[Patricia Hayes]], [[Daphne Heard]], [[Olive Mercer]], [[Edward Burnham]], [[Paul Greenwood]], [[Adrienne Burgess]] and [[Bernard Spear]]. For a simple Rochdale lad not sure where his personal centre of gravity lies, perhaps being an actor is easier than trying to decide who he ought to be.
* "The Last Man on Earth" (4 June 1974) starring [[Dandy Nichols]] and [[Ronald Fraser (actor)|Ronald Fraser]].
* "Sitting Pretty" (11 June 1974) starring [[Nicky Henson]] and [[Una Stubbs]] It's smashing being a sitting tenant; the landlord can't chuck you out, he can't put up the rent, and you don't have to pay the rates or do repairs.
* "Pygmalion Smith" (25 June 1974) starring [[Leonard Rossiter]] and [[T. P. McKenna]]
* "A Girl's Best Friend" (3 July 1974) starring [[Zena Walker]] and [[Reginald Marsh (actor)|Reginald Marsh]]
* "The Reverend Wooing of Archibald" (9 July 1974) starring [[Joan Benham]], [[Julian Holloway]], [[William Mervyn]], [[Madeline Smith]], [[John Leeson]] and [[Julian Fox]]
* "French Relish" (16 July 1974) starring [[Derek Nimmo]]

===Series Fifteen (1975)===

* "The Melting Pot" (11 June 1975) starring [[Spike Milligan]], [[John Bird (actor)|John Bird]], [[Peter Jones (actor)|Peter Jones]], [[Frank Carson]], [[Harry Fowler]], [[Alister Williamson]] and [[Freddie Earlle]]
* "Only on Sunday" (18 June 1975) starring [[Trevor Bannister]] and [[Peter Bowles]]
* "For Richer...For Poorer" (25 June 1975) starring [[David Battley]], [[Harry H. Corbett]], [[Don Henderson]] and [[Eric Pohlmann]]
* "Captive Audience" (2 July 1975) starring [[Derek Fowlds]], [[Daphne Heard]], [[Leslie Dwyer]], [[Cheryl Hall]] and [[Leon Vitali]]
* "Going, Going, Gone...Free?" (9 July 1975) starring [[Pauline Yates]], [[Geoffrey Palmer (actor)|Geoffrey Palmer]] and [[Peter Duncan (actor)|Peter Duncan]]

===Series Sixteen (2014)===
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* "Over to Bill" (29 April 2014)
* "Miller's Mountain" (6 May 2014)
* "Monks" (13 May 2014)

===Series Seventeen (2016)===
* "Hospital People" (26 February 2016)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b071y7z5|title = BBC One – Comedy Playhouse, Series 17, Hospital People}}</ref>
* "Broken Biscuits" (4 March 2016)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072s4sc|title = BBC One – Comedy Playhouse, Series 17, Broken Biscuits}}</ref>
* "Stop/Start" (11 March 2016)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b073r024|title = BBC One – Comedy Playhouse, Series 17, Stop/Start}}</ref>

===Series Eighteen (2017)===
* "Tim Vine Travels in Time" (1 September 2017)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b093qbh2|title = BBC One – Comedy Playhouse, Series 18, Tim Vine Travels in Time}}</ref>
* "Mister Winner" (8 September 2017)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b094f93m|title = BBC One – Comedy Playhouse, Series 18, Mister Winner}}</ref>
* "Static" (15 September 2017)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0953yr8|title = BBC One – Comedy Playhouse, Series 18, Static}}</ref>

==Scottish Comedy Playhouse==
The BBC aired six comedy pilots in 1970 in [[Scotland]] only under the title ''Scottish Comedy Playhouse'', none of which developed onto a full series. While these were being aired, ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' was broadcast in the rest of the UK. The episodes were
#''Stand In For A Hearse'' (22 September 1970)
#''The Siege of Castle Drumlie'' (29 September 1970)
#''The Dinner Party'' (20 October 1970)
#''To Grace A Son'' (28 October 1970)
#''Stobo Takes The Chair'' (3 November 1970)
#''Take Your Partners'' (10 November 1970)

==See also==
{{Portal|1960s}}
* ''[[The Comedy Game]]'', an Australian sitcom anthology series
* ''[[Seven of One]]''

==Notes==

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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'']

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060221021335/http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/cp.htm ''Comedy Playhouse'' at TelevisionHeaven]
*{{BBC programme}}
*{{IMDb title|0861749|Comedy Playhouse}}

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