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 World of Wodehouse The World of Wodehouse The World of Wodehouse was a comedy television series, based on the "Blandings Castle" and "Ukridge" comedy stories by P. G. Wodehouse. The series, which followed "The World of Wooster", was shown on BBC Television during 1967 ("Blandings Castle", 6 episodes) and 1968 ("Ukridge", 7 episodes). Apart from one or more extracts from a solitary episode of "Blandings Castle" ("Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend") broadcast in February 1967 all episodes of both series are lost. (See Wiping.) "The World of Wodehouse" was created as a result of the success of "The World of Wooster". Michael