Foreign Affairs (1964 TV series) Foreign Affairs (1964 TV series) Foreign Affairs is a British sitcom that aired on ITV in 1964. It is a spin-off of "Bootsie and Snudge", itself a spin-off of "The Army Game" and starred Alfie Bass and Bill Fraser as the main characters. The entire series was wiped and is no longer thought to exist. Seven months after the end of the third series of "Bootsie and Snudge", where the title characters worked in a gentleman's club in central London, Alfie Bass and Bill Fraser reprised the roles they first played in "The Army Game". "Bootsie and Snudge" went on
Television comedy is true to say that certain genres of comedy transfer to the small screen more successfully than others. The "situation comedy", or sitcom, has been the most common, successful and culturally significant type of television comedy. As the name suggests, these programs feature recurring characters placed in humorous situations. The first television sitcom was "Pinwright's Progress", ten episodes being broadcast on the BBC between 1946 - 1947. Since the early 1950s with "Hancock's Half Hour" in the UK, (derived from a radio show) and I Love Lucy and spin-offs The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy in the United States, sitcoms