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	\|Idle at Work		\|Idle at Work
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	\|And Whose Side Are You On?		\|And Whose Side Are You On?
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	\|Born Every Minute		\|Born Every Minute
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	\|The Dirtiest Soldier in the World		\|The Dirtiest Soldier in the World
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	\|An adaptation of one story in [[w:George MacDonald Fraser\|George MacDonald Fraser]]'s ''The General Danced At Dawn''.		\|An adaptation of one story in [[w:George MacDonald Fraser\|George MacDonald Fraser]]'s ''The General Danced At Dawn''.
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	\|No Peace on the Western Front		\|No Peace on the Western Front
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	\|Set in the First World War, starred [[Warren Mitchell]] as a German soldier.		\|Set in the First World War, starred [[Warren Mitchell]] as a German soldier.
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	\|Weren't You Marcia Honeywell?		\|Weren't You Marcia Honeywell?
	\|7 September 1972		\|7 September 1972
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	\|[[Are You Being Served?]]		\|[[Are You Being Served?]]
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	\|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.		\|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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	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]].		The '''twelfth series''' of '''''[[Comedy Playhouse]]''''', the long-running [[w:BBC\|BBC]] series, aired during 1972, with the last two episode being used as fillers due to the [[w:Munich massacre\|Munich massacre]].

	==Background==		==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.		The twelfth series, which was in colour, consisted of seven episodes, each of which had a different cast and storyline. The [[w:pilot episode\|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 [[w:Munich massacre\|Munich massacre]] at the [[w:1972 Summer Olympics\|1972 Summer Olympics]] necessitated that it was used as a filler.

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	\|An adaptation of one story in [[George MacDonald Fraser]]'s ''The General Danced At Dawn''.		\|An adaptation of one story in [[w:George MacDonald Fraser\|George MacDonald Fraser]]'s ''The General Danced At Dawn''.
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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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|- style="background:#EFEFEF"
! width=25%|'''Title'''
! width=11%|'''Airdate'''
! width=5%|'''Duration'''
! width=50%|'''Overview'''
! width=5%|'''IMDb link'''
|-
|Idle at Work
|14 January 1972
|30 mins
|
|
|-
|And Whose Side Are You On?
|21 January 1972
|30 mins
|
|
|-
|Born Every Minute
|28 January 1972
|30 mins
|
|
|-
|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''.
|
|-
|No Peace on the Western Front
|30 August 1972
|30 mins
|Set in the First World War, starred [[Warren Mitchell]] as a German soldier.
|
|-
|Weren't You Marcia Honeywell?
|7 September 1972
|30 mins
|
|
|-
|[[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.
|
|-
|}

==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]

[[Category:Comedy Playhouse|Comedy Playhouse (series 12)]]