Comedy Playhouse: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

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.

Series details

• Title: Comedy Playhouse
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Comedy
• Premiere date: 1961-12-15
• Final broadcast date listed: 2017-09-15
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC One
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 10428
• IMDb ID: tt0861749
• TVDB ID: 71927

Cast and credited roles

• Liz Kingsman — Lucy
• Tom Binns — Kenny
• Tom Binns — Ian
• Tom Binns — Terry
• Tom Binns — Ivan
• Tom Binns — Susan
• Alison Steadman — Brenda
• Alun Armstrong — Roger
• Ben Crompton — Sid the Suitcase
• Christopher John Slater — Tom
• Gurjeet Singh — Raz
• Lisa Millett — Mabel

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1961-12-15; final listed air date 1962-02-16; episode order: 10.
• Season 2: premiered 1962-03-01; final listed air date 1963-04-12; episode order: 6.
• Season 3: premiered 1963-09-28; final listed air date 1964-01-31; episode order: 17.
• Season 4: premiered 1965-05-28; final listed air date 1965-08-19; episode order: 12.
• Season 5: premiered 1966-05-17; final listed air date 1966-08-02; episode order: 9.
• Season 6: premiered 1967-05-19; final listed air date 1967-06-30; episode order: 8.
• Season 7: premiered 1968-04-26; final listed air date 1968-06-28; episode order: 9.
• Season 8: premiered 1969-04-14; final listed air date 1969-05-19.
• Season 9: premiered 1969-12-18; final listed air date 1970-01-15; episode order: 4.
• Season 10: premiered 1970-03-11; final listed air date 1970-04-01; episode order: 4.
• Season 11: premiered 1970-06-08; final listed air date 1970-08-05; episode order: 4.
• Season 12: premiered 1971-01-08; final listed air date 1971-05-06; episode order: 7.
• Season 13: premiered 1972-01-14; final listed air date 1972-01-28; episode order: 6.
• Season 14: premiered 1973-01-04; final listed air date 1973-02-08; episode order: 6.
• Season 15: premiered 1974-04-16; final listed air date 1974-07-16.
• Season 16: premiered 2014-04-29; final listed air date 2014-05-13; episode order: 3.
• Season 17: premiered 2016-02-26; final listed air date 2016-03-11; episode order: 3.
• Season 18: premiered 2017-09-01; final listed air date 2017-09-15; episode order: 3.

Source and licence

Adapted from Comedy Playhouse on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.