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 Black Adder (pilot episode) the location filming of the first series, being instead all shot on interior sets, again in a similar fashion to the second series onwards of "Blackadder". In 2010, "The Guardian" reflected on this, noting that it was "an interesting example of getting it right first time": The episode has not been broadcast on television, nor is it available on DVD, although some scenes were featured in the 25th anniversary special "Blackadder Rides Again". However, various bootleg copies exist and footage is often seen online. The Black Adder (pilot episode) The Black Adder is the unaired pilot episode of the BBC