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Comedy Playhouse

★ 7.0 84 votes 1961–2017 18 seasons · 136 episodes Ended BBC One
Starring
Frank ThorntonJohn Le MesurierRobert DorningBernard CribbinsGraham StarkJohn Junkin
Written by
A.J. BaconNeil MunroJilly CooperJohn Archer
Starring
Frank ThorntonJohn Le MesurierRobert DorningBernard CribbinsGraham StarkJohn Junkin
Written by
A.J. BaconNeil MunroJilly CooperJohn Archer
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
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About

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, Till Death Us Do Part, All Gas and Gaiters, 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.

All Seasons

Season 11961
7.420105h 5m
Season 21962
7.92362h 35m
Season 31963
0175h 10m
Season 41965
0121h 55m
Season 51966
092h
Season 61967
0825m
Season 71968
091h
Season 81969
7.92972h 35m
Season 91969
041h
Season 101970
0830m
Season 111970
061h
Season 121971
7.93171h
Season 131972
7.212161h 30m
Season 141974
6.437132h 29m
Season 151975
061h
Season 162014
5.455230m
Season 172016
6.0693
Season 182017
5.7853

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Frank Thornton Captain Peacock, Jessop, Mortimer
John Le Mesurier (A Creature of Habit), Caleb Bullrush, Judge
Robert Dorning Bank Manager, Billy Carter, Colonel
Bernard Cribbins Ambrose Twombly, Arnold, Cakebread
Graham Stark Arthur Pratt, Cyril Bradley, Gomorrah Weevil
John Junkin Ernie Babcock, Harold King, Odius
Pat Coombs Café Server, Crocker, Lana Butt
Tony Melody Gas Man, Policeman, Referee
Ronald Fraser Arnold, Harry, Jock MacMillan
Peter Jones Clive, Eddie, Gerald Garvey

Crew

A.J. Bacon
Neil Munro
Jilly Cooper
John Archer

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