Comedy Playhouse 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", "Meet the Wife", "Till Death Us Do Part", "All Gas and Gaiters", "Up Pompeii!", "Not in Front of the Children", "Me Mammy", "That's Your Funeral", "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. In March 2014, it was announced that "Comedy Playhouse" would make a
The Saint in New York to the character of Inspector Fernack; the spelling of his name was changed to Farnack and remained so for all future film appearances. In 1987, a television pilot for a potential new "Saint" TV series was broadcast on CBS. Entitled "The Saint in Manhattan", the pilot was not directly based upon the novel but did feature the character of Inspector Farnack. A copy of the novel "The Saint in New York" was featured prominently in an episode of the Canadian sitcom "Corner Gas" in 2004. In the episode "Comedy Night", the show's lead character, Brent Leroy, attempts to sway a