Comedy Playhouse

6.0

1961•30m

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.

Seasons

10 Episodes • Premiered 1961

1. Cliquot et Fils

An undertaker in 1920s France needs to drum up trade for his ailing business.

2. Lunch in the Park

A pair of office workers have for ten years spent their lunch hour on the same park bench.

3. The Private Lives of Edward Whitely

The misadventures of bigamist Edward Whitely.

4. The Offer

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.