Editing Comedy Playhouse

{{Short description|1961–1975 British television series}}
{{about|the BBC series|the equivalent ITV series|Playhouse (British TV series)|the American series|Comedy Playhouse (American TV series)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2018}}
{{Infobox television
| image = Comedy Playhouse.jpg
| caption = Titlecard for the 1961/1962 series episode "The Offer". This episode was the pilot for ''Steptoe and Son''.
| runtime = Usually 25 minutes, 30 minutes or 35 minutes
| creator = [[Tom Sloan (television executive)|Tom Sloan]]
| starring = Various
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| network = [[BBC One|BBC1]]
| first_aired = {{Start date|1961|12|15|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{End date|1975|07|09|df=y}}
| first_aired2 = {{Start date|2014|04|29|df=y}}
| last_aired2 = {{End date|2017|09|15|df=y}}
| num_episodes = 137 (95 missing) 
}}

'''''Comedy Playhouse'''''<ref>{{cite web|title=Comedy Playhouse|date=1961-12-15|website=[[IMDb]]|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0861749/|type=Comedy|publisher=[[British Broadcasting Corporation]] (BBC)|access-date=2022-01-28}}</ref> is a long-running British [[anthology series]] of one-off unrelated [[Situation comedy|sitcoms]] that aired for 128 episodes from 1961 to 1975. Many episodes later graduated to their own series, including ''[[Steptoe and Son]]'', ''[[Meet the Wife (TV series)|Meet the Wife]]'', ''[[Till Death Us Do Part]]'', ''[[All Gas and Gaiters]]'', ''[[Up Pompeii!]]'', ''[[Not in Front of the Children (TV series)|Not in Front of the Children]]'', ''[[Me Mammy]]'', ''[[That's Your Funeral]]'', ''[[The Liver Birds]]'', ''[[Are You Being Served?]]'' and particularly ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]'', which is the world's longest running sitcom, having run from January 1973 to August 2010. In all, 27 sitcoms started from a pilot in the ''Comedy Playhouse'' strand.

In March 2014, it was announced that ''Comedy Playhouse'' would make a return that year with three new episodes.<ref name="Comedy Playhouse Returns">{{cite news |title=BBC1 to revive 'Comedy Playhouse' after 40 years |author=Ian Burrell |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/bbc1-to-revive-comedy-playhouse-after-40-years-in-bid-to-reduce-risk-on-new-sitcoms-9197707.html |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |date=17 March 2014 |access-date=25 March 2014}}</ref> Two further series each comprising three episodes were broadcast in 2016 and 2017 respectively.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 26, 2016 |title=BBC films hospital sitcom for Comedy Playhouse pilot |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/2007/tom_binns_ivan_brackenbury_hospital_people_pilot/ |website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=July 26, 2017 |title=Rob Beckett to star in BBC Comedy Playhouse pilot |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/2704/rob_beckett_stars_in_static/ |website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref>

==Background==
The series began in 1961 at the prompting of [[Tom Sloan (television executive)|Tom Sloan]], Head of BBC Light Entertainment at the time. Galton and Simpson were no longer writing for [[Tony Hancock]] and Sloan asked them to write ten one-offs with the hope that one might become established as a series.<ref>Radio Times, 25 March 1971</ref> Thus, the first two series of ''Comedy Playhouse'' were written by [[Galton and Simpson|Ray Galton]] and [[Galton and Simpson|Alan Simpson]], but from the third series onwards, the episodes were written by various writers including the likes of [[Barry Took]], [[Bernard McKenna (writer)|Bernard McKenna]], [[Esmonde and Larbey|Bob Larbey]], [[Brian Cooke]], [[Carla Lane]], [[Craig Cash]], [[David Croft (TV producer)|David Croft]], [[Dick Clement]], [[Dick Hills and Sid Green|Dick Hills]], [[Doug Naylor]], [[Edwin Apps]], George Evans, [[Graham Chapman]], [[Harry Driver]], [[Jack Docherty]], [[Jack Rosenthal]], [[Jeremy Lloyd]], [[John Esmonde (scriptwriter)|John Esmonde]], John T. Chapman, [[Johnny Speight]], [[Ian La Frenais]], Ken Hoare, [[Kingsley Amis]], [[Jilly Cooper]], [[Marty Feldman]], [[Michael Pertwee]], [[Neil Shand]], [[Pauline Devaney]], [[Peter Jones (actor)|Peter Jones]], [[P. G. Wodehouse|P.G. Wodehouse]], [[Richard Harris (television writer)|Richard Harris]], [[Ronald Chesney]], [[Chesney and Wolfe|Ronald Woolfe]], [[Roy Clarke]], [[Richard Waring (writer)|Richard Waring]], [[Dick Hills and Sid Green|Sid Green]] and [[Vince Powell]].

== Archive status ==
The first eight series were made in [[black-and-white]], with the rest from ''Up Pompeii!'' onwards being in colour. Like many television programmes from the time, many of 1960s & 1970s episodes are [[Lost television broadcast#Wiping|lost]]. As a result, 95 episodes are currently missing from the archives, although audio recordings from the soundtracks of 15 missing episodes have been recovered, short extracts survive from ''Till Death Us Do Part'' and ''Thank You Sir, Thank You Madam'', and a further episode [[The Melting Pot (TV series)|''The Melting Pot'']] survives as a [[U-matic|U-Matic]] video copy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Comedy Playhouse |url=https://www.tvbrain.info/tv-archive?showname=Comedy+Playhouse&type=lostshow |website=TV Brain}}</ref>

In Australia the series was broadcast on [[ABC Television (Australian TV network)|ABC Television]] in the early 1960s-late 1970s.

== Commercial release ==
The series itself hasn't been released on home media, although some of the surviving episodes have been repeated on television or included on DVD boxsets as pilot episodes to their respective series. These include ''Steptoe and Son'' ''(The Offer)'', ''Meet The Wife (The Bed)'', ''All Gas and Gaiters (The Bishop Rides Again)'', ''Up Pompeii!'', ''Are You Being Served?'', ''Last of the Summer Wine (Of Funerals and Fish)'' and ''Happy Ever After''. Clips from the series were also featured in the documentary ''Comedy Playhouse: Where It All Began'', which was broadcast on BBC1 on 29 April 2014,<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 29, 2014 |title=Comedy Playhouse: Where It All Began |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b042m95q |website=BBC Genome}}</ref> which featured interviews with actors and writers who participated in the series, including Ray Galton, Alan Simpson, [[June Whitfield]], [[Bernard Cribbins]] and [[Keith Barron]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Comedy Playhouse: Where It All Began |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/comedy_playhouse_where_began/ |website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref>

==Episodes==

===Series 1 (1961–2)===
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 1
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = Cliquot et Fils
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|12|15|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Eric Sykes]], [[Warren Mitchell]], [[Charles Lloyd Pack]], [[Frank Thornton]] and [[Joan Hickson]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 2
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = Lunch in the Park
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|12|22|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Stanley Baxter]], [[Daphne Anderson]] and [[Roger Avon]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 3
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = The Private Lives of Edward Whiteley 
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|12|29|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Tony Britton]], [[Raymond Huntley]] and [[Terence Alexander]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 4
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = The Offer 
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = TR16
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|1|5|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Wilfrid Brambell]] and [[Harry H. Corbett]].<ref>The pilot episode of ''[[Steptoe and Son]]'', which ran for eight series between 1962-5, and 1970-4.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 5
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = The Reunion 
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|1|12|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Lee Montague]], [[J. G. Devlin]], [[Dick Emery]], [[Patrick Cargill]], [[Jerold Wells]], Bernard Goldman, David Gregory and [[Cameron Hall (actor)|Cameron Hall]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 6
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = The Telephone Call 
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|1|19|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Peter Jones, June Whitfield, [[Richard Caldicot]], [[Derek Bond]], [[Harold Lang (British actor)|Harold Lang]] and Roger Avon.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 7
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7
| Title = The Status Symbol 
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|1|26|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Alfred Marks]] and [[Graham Stark]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 8
| EpisodeNumber2 = 8
| Title = Visiting Day 
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|2|2|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Bernard Cribbins, [[Betty Marsden]], Wilfrid Brambell, [[Hugh Lloyd]] and [[Molly Weir]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 9
| EpisodeNumber2 = 9
| Title = Sealed with a Loving Kiss 
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|2|9|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Ronald Fraser (actor)|Ronald Fraser]], [[Avril Elgar]], [[Gladys Henson]], Vic Wise and [[Rita Webb]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 10
| EpisodeNumber2 = 10
| Title = The Channel Swimmer 
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|2|16|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Michael Brennan (actor)|Michael Brennan]], Warren Mitchell, [[Sydney Tafler]], Frank Thornton, [[Bob Todd]] and Joe Gibbons.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
}}

===Series 2 (1963)===
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 11
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = Our Man in Moscow
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = TR16
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|3|1|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Robert Morley]], [[Patrick Wymark]], Frank Thornton, [[Anthony Newlands]] and Peter Thompson. 
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 12
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = And Here, All the Way From...
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = TR16
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|3|8|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Eric Barker]], Erica Rogers, Terence Alexander, [[Roger Delgado]] and Roger Avon.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 13
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = Impasse
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = TR16
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|3|15|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Bernard Cribbins, [[Yootha Joyce]], [[Leslie Phillips]], [[Georgina Cookson]], [[Harry Locke]], [[Duncan Macrae (actor)|Duncan Macrae]] and [[Campbell Singer]].<ref>This was remade as the ''Pride'' segment in the anthology film ''[[The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins]]'', and again for ''[[Paul Merton In Galton & Simpson's...]]'' in 1996.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 14
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = Have You Read This Notice?
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|3|29|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Frankie Howerd]], [[Bill Kerr]], Edwin Apps and Graham Ashley.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 15
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = A Clerical Error
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = TR16
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|4|5|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[John Le Mesurier]], [[Russell Napier]],Yootha Joyce, [[Blake Butler]], [[Andy Devine (English actor)|Andy Devine]] and John Caesar.<ref>''A Clerical Error'' was remade for ''The Galton & Simpson Radio Playhouse'' and broadcast on 12 January 1999 on [[BBC Radio 4]] and starred [[Keith Barron]] as Bullrush and [[June Whitfield]] as Rita.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 16
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = The Handyman
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = TR16
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|4|12|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Alfred Marks, [[Anthony Sharp]], [[Damaris Hayman]], [[Frank Williams (actor)|Frank Williams]], Edwin Apps, [[Julian Orchard]] and [[John Harvey (actor)|John Harvey]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
}}

===Series 3 (1963-4)===
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 17
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = On the Knocker
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|9|28|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Ronald Fraser, [[Alfred Burke]] and [[Noel Johnson]]. 
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 18
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = Underworld Knights
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|10|5|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Ron Moody]], [[Bryan Pringle]], [[Robert Raglan]], Blake Butler, [[Trevor Peacock]] and [[Pat Coombs]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 19
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = Fools Rush In
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = TR16
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|10|12|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Deryck Guyler]], [[Gordon Rollings]] and [[Patrick Newell]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 20
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = Shamrot
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|10|19|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Dermot Kelly (actor)|Dermot Kelly]], [[Kathleen Harrison]], [[Arthur Mullard]], [[Thomas Baptiste]], [[Tony Doyle (actor)|Tony Doyle]] and Alan Simpson.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 21
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = The Bachelor Girls
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|10|26|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Tracy Reed (English actress)|Tracy Reed]], [[Anna Palk]], [[Edward Fox (actor)|Edward Fox]], [[André Maranne]] and [[Terence De Marney]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 22
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = The Plan
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|11|2|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Peter Cushing]], P.G. Stephens, Graham Stark, [[Francis Matthews (actor)|Francis Matthews]], [[Jim McManus (actor)|Jim McManus]], [[David Davies (Welsh actor)|Welsh actor]] and Stuart Saunders.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 23
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7
| Title = A Picture of Innocence 
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|11|9|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Patricia Burke]], [[Frederick Peisley]], Charles Lloyd Pack and [[Harry Littlewood]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 24
| EpisodeNumber2 = 8
| Title = Nicked at the Bottle
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|11|16|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[George Cole (actor)|George Cole]], [[Margaretta Scott]], [[Doris Hare]] and [[James Villiers]], [[Peter Stephens (actor)|Peter Stephens]] and Richard McNeff.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 25
| EpisodeNumber2 = 9
| Title = The Chars
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A<ref>A domestic audio recording exists of the soundtrack, but the programme itself is missing.</ref>
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|11|23|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Elsie Waters]], [[Doris Waters]], [[Michael Balfour (actor)|Michael Balfour]], [[Ann Lancaster]], [[James Beck]] and [[Derek Nimmo]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 26
| EpisodeNumber2 = 10
| Title = Comrades in Arms
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|11|30|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Ian Bannen]], [[Fenella Fielding]], Graham Stark and [[Elvi Hale]]. 
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 27
| EpisodeNumber2 = 11
| Title = The Walrus and the Carpenter
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|12|14|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Hugh Griffith]], [[Felix Aylmer]] and Doris Hare.<ref>The pilot episode for the series of the same name, which ran for one series in 1965.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 28
| EpisodeNumber2 = 12
| Title = The Bed
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = TR35
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|12|28|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Thora Hird]], [[Freddie Frinton]] and [[Brian Oulton]].<ref>The pilot episode of ''[[Meet the Wife (TV series)|Meet the Wife]]'', which ran for five series between 1963-6.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 29
| EpisodeNumber2 = 13
| Title = The Mate Market
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = TR16
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|1|3|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Lance Percival]], [[Francesca Annis]], Richard Caldicot, [[Dilys Laye]], [[Jeremy Young]] and Jean Conroy.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 30
| EpisodeNumber2 = 14
| Title = The Hen House
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|1|10|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Beryl Reid]], [[Barbara Windsor]] and Dermot Kelly, Madeleine Mills and Graham Weston.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 31
| EpisodeNumber2 = 15
| Title = The Siege of Sydney's Street
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = TR16
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|1|17|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Roy Kinnear]], Gordon Rollings, [[George Benson (actor)|George Benson]], Arthur Mullard, [[Eric Dodson]] [[Barbara Keogh]] and Peter Thomas.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 32
| EpisodeNumber2 = 16
| Title = The Mascot
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|1|24|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Dudley Foster]], [[Robert Dorning]] and [[Joe Gladwin]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 33
| EpisodeNumber2 = 17
| Title = Good Luck Sir, You've Got a Lucky Face
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|1|31|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Graham Stark, [[Derek Francis]] and Frank Thornton.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
}}

===Series 4 (1965)===

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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 34
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = Barnaby Spoot and the Exploding Whoopee Cushion
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|5|28|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[John Bird (actor)|John Bird]], John Le Mesurier, [[Ronald Lacey]], [[Sheila Steafel]], [[Alister Williamson]], Bart Allison, Bill Burridge and Sidney Johnson.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 35
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = Mother Came Too
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|6|5|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Peggy Mount]] and Graham Stark. 
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 36
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = Here I Come Whoever I Am
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|6|11|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Bernard Cribbins, [[Helen Fraser (actress)|Helen Fraser]], [[Mike Pratt (actor)|Mike Pratt]], [[Edward Evans (actor)|Edward Evans]] and Maureen Lane.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 37
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = Happy Family 
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|6|18|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Ted Ray (comedian)|Ted Ray]], Daphne Anderson and [[Judy Geeson]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 38
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = Memoirs of a Chaise Longue 
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|7|2|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring John Le Mesurier, Betty Marsden, Fenella Fielding, [[Jack Watling]] and [[Shay Gorman]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 39
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = Murray and Me
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|7|8|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Chic Murray]], Alan Baulche and Harry Locke.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 40
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7
| Title = Hudd
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|7|15|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Roy Hudd]] and [[Noel Dyson]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 41
| EpisodeNumber2 = 8
| Title = [[Till Death Us Do Part]]
| Aux2 = Partial<ref>A short two minute excerpt exists, the complete program is still missing.</ref>
| Aux3 = TR16 SEQ
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|7|22|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Warren Mitchell, [[Gretchen Franklin]],<ref>Franklin was replaced by [[Dandy Nichols]] in the TV series</ref> [[Tony Booth (actor)|Anthony Booth]], [[Una Stubbs]], Derek Nimmo, Eric Dodson and [[Colin Welland]].<ref>The pilot episode for the series of the same name, which ran for seven series between 1966-75.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 42
| EpisodeNumber2 = 9
| Title = The Time and the Motion Man
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|7|29|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Leslie Phillips and [[Richard Moore (actor)|Richard Moore]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 43
| EpisodeNumber2 = 10
| Title = Sam and the Samaritan
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|8|5|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Wilfrid Brambell, [[John Junkin]], Roy Kinnear and [[John Scott Martin]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 44
| EpisodeNumber2 = 11
| Title = [[The Vital Spark]]
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|8|12|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Roddy McMillan]], [[John Grieve (actor)|John Grieve]] and [[Robert Urquhart (actor)|Robert Urquhart]].<ref>The pilot episode for the series of the same name, which ran for three series between 1965-74.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 45
| EpisodeNumber2 = 12
| Title = Betsy Mae
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|8|19|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Hermione Gingold]], [[Nicholas Phipps]] and [[Michael Gover]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
}}

===Series 5 (1966)===

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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 46
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = The Bishop Rides Again
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = TR16
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|5|17|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Robertson Hare]], [[William Mervyn]], Derek Nimmo, [[John Barron (actor)|John Barron]], James Beck and Cheryl Molineaux.<ref>The pilot episode of ''[[All Gas and Gaiters]]'', which ran for five series between 1967-71.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 47
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = [[Beggar My Neighbour (TV series)|Beggar My Neighbour]]
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|5|24|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Reg Varney]], Peter Jones, June Whitfield and Pat Coombs.<ref>The pilot episode for the series of the same name, which ran for three series between 1967-8.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 48
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = A Little Learning
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|5|31|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Jack Hulbert]], [[Cicely Courtneidge]] and [[Clive Morton]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 49
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = Judgement Day for Elijah Jones
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|6|7|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Clive Dunn]], Bernard Cribbins, [[Derek Martin]] and [[Peter Diamond (actor)|Peter Diamond]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 50
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = [[Room at the Bottom (1967 TV series)|Room at the Bottom]]
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|6|14|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Kenneth Connor]], Deryck Guyler, Francis Matthews, [[Brian Wilde]], [[Erik Chitty]] and [[Godfrey James]].<ref>The pilot episode for the series of the same name, which ran for one series in 1967.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 51
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = The End of the Tunnel
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|6|21|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring George Cole, [[Lynn Redgrave]], [[Tenniel Evans]] and [[Michael Spice]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 52
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7
| Title = Seven Year Hitch
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A<ref>A domestic audio recording exists of the soundtrack, but the programme itself is missing.</ref>
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|6|28|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Harry H. Corbett, [[Joan Sims]] and [[John Baskcomb]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 53
| EpisodeNumber2 = 8
| Title = The Mallard Imaginaire
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|7|5|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Robert Coote]], [[Moira Lister]], Daphne Anderson and [[Arthur Howard]].<ref>The pilot episode of ''[[The Whitehall Worrier]]'', which ran for one series in 1967.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 54
| EpisodeNumber2 = 9
| Title = [[The Reluctant Romeo]]
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|8|2|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Leslie Crowther]], [[Amanda Barrie]], [[Keith Pyott]] and Sheila Steafel.<ref>The pilot episode for the series of the same name, which ran for one series in 1967.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
}}

===Series 6 (1967)===

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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 55
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = Hughie
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1967|5|19|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Hugh Lloyd, [[Patrick Cargill]] and [[Michael Sheard]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 56
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = House in a Tree
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A<ref>A domestic audio recording exists of the soundtrack, but the programme itself is missing.</ref>
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1967|5|26|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Wendy Craig]], [[Paul Daneman]], [[Roberta Tovey]] and Kenneth Thornett.<ref>The pilot episode of ''[[Not in Front of the Children (TV series)|Not In Front of the Children]]'', which ran for five series between 1967-70.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 57
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = Spanner in the Works
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A<ref>A domestic audio recording exists of the soundtrack, but the programme itself is missing.</ref>
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1967|6|2|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Jimmy Jewel]], [[Norman Rossington]], [[Julian Holloway]], [[Arnold Peters (actor)|Arnold Peters]], Eric Dodson, [[Jon Rollason]], Peter Bathurst, Blake Butler and [[Colin Douglas (actor)|Colin Douglas]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 58
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = Heirs on a Shoestring
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A<ref>A domestic audio recording exists of the soundtrack, but the programme itself is missing.</ref>
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1967|6|9|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Jimmy Edwards]], Clive Dunn, [[Sam Kydd]], Frances Bennett and [[Eileen Way]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 59
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = Uncle Fred Flits By
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1967|6|16|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Wilfrid Hyde-White]], [[Ballard Berkeley]], Gordon Rollings and Richard McNeff.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 60
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = Loitering With Intent
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1967|6|23|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Daphne Anderson, [[David Tomlinson]], [[Rudolph Walker]], [[John Nettleton (actor)|John Nettleton]], [[Barry Fantoni]] and Madeleine Mills.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 61
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7
| Title = To Lucifer: A Son
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A<ref>A domestic audio recording exists of the soundtrack, but the programme itself is missing.</ref>
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1967|6|29|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring John Le Mesurier, [[Jimmy Tarbuck]], Pat Coombs and [[Gábor Baraker]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 62
| EpisodeNumber2 = 8
| Title = The Old Campaigner
| Aux2 = Exists 
| Aux3 = TR16
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1967|6|30|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Terry-Thomas]], [[Derek Fowlds]], Norman Claridge, Brian Cullingford, [[Susan Jameson]] and André Maranne.<ref>The pilot episode for the series of the same name, which ran for one series between 1968-9.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
}}

===Series 7 (1968)===

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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 63
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = State of the Union
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1968|4|26|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Les Dawson]], [[Patsy Rowlands]], [[Michael Robbins]], [[Melvyn Hayes]], [[Edward Evans (actor)|Edward Evans]] and Roma Tomelty.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 64
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = View By Appointment
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1968|5|3|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Beryl Reid, [[Hugh Paddick]], Derek Fowlds, [[Pauline Collins]] and John Harvey.<ref>The pilot episode of ''Wink to Me Only'', which ran for one series in 1969.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 65
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = The Family of Fred
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1968|5|10|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Freddie Frinton, [[Jean Kent]], Roberta Rex and Mike Lucas.<ref>The pilot episode of ''Thicker Than Water'', which ran for one series in 1969.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 66
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = Stiff Upper Lip
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1968|5|17|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Richard Vernon]], [[Michael Bates (actor)|Michael Bates]], [[Bernard Bresslaw]], [[George Baker (British actor)|George Baker]], [[John Glyn-Jones]] and [[Robert Lee (British actor)|Robert Lee]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 67
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = [[Wild, Wild Women|Wild, Wild Woman]]
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1968|5|24|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Barbara Windsor, Derek Francis, [[Penelope Keith]] and Colette Gleeson.<ref>The pilot episode for the series of the same name, which ran for one series in 1969.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 68
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = Thank You Sir, Thank You Madam
| Aux2 = Partial<ref>A short extract exists, the complete program is still missing.</ref>
| Aux3 = TR16 SEQ
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1968|5|31|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[David Lodge (actor)|David Lodge]], [[Peter Glaze]], Gordon Rollings, [[John Grieve (actor)|John Grieve]] and Veronica Clifford.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 69
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7
| Title = [[B-And-B]]
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = TR16
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1968|6|7|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Bernard Braden]], [[Barbara Kelly]], [[Kim Braden]] and Pauline Collins.<ref>The pilot episode for the series of the same name, which ran for one series broadcast later that year.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 70
| EpisodeNumber2 = 8
| Title = [[Me Mammy]]
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1968|6|14|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Milo O'Shea]], Yootha Joyce and [[Neil Hallett]].<ref>The pilot episode for the series of the same name, which ran for three series between 1969-71.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 71
| EpisodeNumber2 = 9
| Title = The Gold Watch Club
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1968|6|28|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Dennis Price]], [[Peter Bayliss]], Bob Todd, [[Derek Waring]], Barbara Leake, Roger Avon and [[Norman Mitchell]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = NB
| EpisodeNumber2 = NB
| Title = Current Affairs
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = Untransmitted
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Harold Goodwin (English actor)|Harold Goodwin]], [[Arthur White (actor)|Arthur White]], Kenneth Fortescue, [[Ken Parry]], Robert Dorning, Damaris Hayman and [[Bruce Wightman]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Current Affairs |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/current_affairs/ |website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref> 
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
}}

===Series 8 (1969)===

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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 72
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = [[The Liver Birds]]
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1969|4|14|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Pauline Collins, [[Polly James]], [[Roy Marsden]] and [[Hugh Walters (actor)|Hugh Walter]].<ref>The pilot episode for the series of the same name, which ran for ten series between 1969-79 and a further series in 1996.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 73
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = The Valley Express
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1969|4|21|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Nerys Hughes]], [[Graeme Garden]], [[Richard Davies (Welsh actor)|Richard Davies]] and James Appleby.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 74
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = Tooth and Claw
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A<ref>A domestic audio recording exists of the soundtrack, but the programme itself is missing.</ref>
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1969|4|28|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Warren Mitchell, Marty Feldman, Richard Caldicot, [[Anthony Dawes]], [[Arnold Diamond]], David Rowlands and Harry Brooks Jr.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 75
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = [[As Good Cooks Go]]
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1969|5|5|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Tessie O'Shea]], Robert Dorning, James Appleby, [[Norman Chappell]] and [[Brian Grellis]].<ref>The pilot episode for the series of the same name, which ran for one series in 1970.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 76
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = The Loves of Larch Hill
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A<ref>A domestic audio recording exists of the soundtrack, but the programme itself is missing.</ref>
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1969|5|12|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Robert Dorning, [[Gillian Blake]] and Denis Cleary.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 77
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = The Making of Peregrine
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A<ref>A domestic audio recording exists of the soundtrack, but the programme itself is missing.</ref>
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1969|5|19|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Dick Emery, Pat Coombs, [[Andrew Ray]] and Sam Kydd.<ref>The last edition to be produced in black and white.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 78
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7
| Title = [[Up Pompeii!]]
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = VT625
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1969|9|17|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Frankie Howerd, [[Max Adrian]], John Junkin, [[Aubrey Woods]] and Richard McNeff.<ref>The pilot episode for the series of the same name, which ran for two series between 1970-1 and two further specials in 1975 and 1991.</ref><ref>The first edition to be produced in colour, although it was originally broadcast in black and white, as BBC1 didn't start colour transmissions until 15 November 1969.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
}}

===Series 9 (1969-70)===
{{main|Comedy Playhouse (series 9)}}
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 79
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = Joint Account
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A<ref>A domestic audio recording exists of the soundtrack, but the programme itself is missing.</ref>
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1969|12|19|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Keith Barron, Sarah Atkinson and [[Geoffrey Whitehead]].<ref>The first episode to broadcast in colour following the launch of colour transmissions on BBC1.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 80
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = The Jugg Brothers
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|1|1|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Bob Grant (actor)|Bob Grant]], [[Stephen Lewis (actor)|Stephen Lewis]], [[Fanny Carby]] and [[Queenie Watts]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 81
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = An Officer and a Gentleman
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|1|8|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[James Grout]], Ken Wynne, [[Patricia Hayes]], [[Diana King (actress)|Diana King]] and [[Raymond Westwell]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 82
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = Who's Your Friend?
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|1|15|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Bernard Cribbins, [[Maggie Fitzgibbon]] and Frank Thornton.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
}}

===Series 10 (1970)===

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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 83
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = Keep 'Em Rolling
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A<ref>A domestic audio recording exists of the soundtrack, but the programme itself is missing.</ref>
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|3|11|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Derek Nimmo, [[Timothy Bateson]], Gordon Rollings, [[Michael Collins (English actor)|Michael Collins]] and Peter Diamond.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 84
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = Better Than a Man
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A<ref>A domestic audio recording exists of the soundtrack, but the programme itself is missing.</ref>
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|3|18|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Sheila Hancock]], [[Leslie Sands]], [[Willoughby Goddard]] and [[Bartlett Mullins]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 85
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = Last Tribute
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = TR16
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|3|25|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Bill Fraser]] and Raymond Huntley.<ref>The pilot episode of ''[[That's Your Funeral]]'', which ran for one series in 1971.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 86
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = Haven of Rest
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|4|1|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Ballard Berkeley, Deryck Guyler, John Le Mesurier, [[Colin Gordon]] and Vivienne Bennett.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 87
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = Mind Your Own Business
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A<ref>A domestic audio recording exists of the soundtrack, but the programme itself is missing.</ref>
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|7|8|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Norman Bird]], [[Hilda Fenemore]], [[Derek Griffiths]], [[Tony Selby]] and [[Cheryl Hall]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 88
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = The Old Contemptible
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|7|15|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Arthur English]], Gretchen Franklin, [[John Sharp (actor)|John Sharp]], [[Michael Osborne (actor)|Michael Osborne]], Derrick Gilbert and Kenneth Thornett.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 89
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7
| Title = Don't Ring Us...We'll Ring You
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|7|29|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring John Junkin, Norman Rossington, Colin Welland and [[Barbara Knox]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 90
| EpisodeNumber2 = 8
| Title = Meter Maids
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|8|5|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Pat Coombs, [[Joan Sanderson]], Barbara Windsor, [[Martin Wyldeck]] and [[Robert Lankesheer]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
}}

===Series 11 (1971)===

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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 91
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = Just Harry and Me
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1971|4|1|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Sheila Hancock, [[Donald Houston]] and [[Lynne Frederick]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 92
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = Uncle Tulip
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1971|4|8|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Geoffrey Lumsden]], [[Renu Setna]], Sahab Qazalbash and [[Madhav Sharma]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 93
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = [[It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling]]...
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1971|4|15|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Joanna Lumley]], [[Jane Carr]] and Anna Palk.<ref>The pilot episode for the series of the same name, which ran for one series broadcast later that year.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 94
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = [[The Rough with the Smooth]]
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = VT625
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1971|4|22|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Tim Brooke-Taylor]], John Junkin, Jenny Till, [[Timothy Carlton]], Clovissa Newcombe, Terence Brook and Richard McNeff.<ref>The pilot episode for the series of the same name, which ran for one series in 1975.</ref> 
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 95
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = Equal Partners
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1971|4|29|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Nicky Henson]] and [[Angela Scoular]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 96
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = The Importance of Being Hairy
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1971|5|6|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[John Cater]], [[James Copeland (actor)|James Copeland]], [[Gerald Flood]], [[Gilly Flower]] and [[David Simeon]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
}}

===Series 12 (1972)===
{{main|Comedy Playhouse (series 12)}}
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 97
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = Idle at Work
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1972|1|14|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Ronnie Barker]], [[Graham Crowden]], Derek Francis, [[Mary Merrall|Mary Merall]], [[William Kendall (actor)|William Kendall]], [[Roland MacLeod]], Angela Leventon, Timothy Carlton, [[Desmond Cullum-Jones]] and John Owens.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 98
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = And Who's Side Are You On?
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1972|1|21|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Patrick Newell, [[Tim Barrett (actor)|Tim Barrett]], Freddie Earlle, [[Terence Edmond]], [[John Hollis]], Olivia Breeze, [[Laurie Webb (actor)|Laurie Webb]], [[Roy Evans (actor)|Roy Evans]] and Derek Chafer.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 99
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = Born Every Minute
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = VT625
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1972|1|28|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Ronald Fraser, James Beck, [[Juliet Harmer]], Campbell Singer, [[Mollie Sugden]], [[Harry Landis]] and [[Gordon Peters]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 100
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = The Dirtiest Soldier in the World
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = VT625
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1972|3|27|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[John Standing]], Freddie Earlle, [[Jack Watson (actor)|Jack Watson]], [[Moray Watson]], [[Allan Cuthbertson]], [[Ben Aris]], Andrew Downie, [[Jay Neill (actor)|Jay Neill]] and Ricky Newby.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 101
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = No Peace on the Western Front
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = VT625
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1972|8|30|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Ronald Fraser and Warren Mitchell.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 102
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = Weren't You Marcia Honeywell?
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1972|9|7|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Hilda Fennemore, Jo Garrity, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick and [[Royce Mills]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 103
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7
| Title = [[Are You Being Served?]]
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = TR16<ref>Survives as a b&w telerecording, restored back to colour in [https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1580586/Are-You-Being-Served-pilot-shelved-BBC January 2010].</ref>
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1972|9|8|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Frank Thornton, Mollie Sugden, [[John Inman]], [[Trevor Bannister]], [[Wendy Richard]], [[Arthur Brough]], [[Nicholas Smith (actor)|Nicholas Smith]] and [[Larry Martyn]].<ref>The pilot episode for the series of the same name, which ran for ten series between 1973-85.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
}}

===Series 13 (1973-4)===

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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 104
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = [[Of Funerals and Fish]]
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = VT625
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|1|4|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Bill Owen (actor)|Bill Owen]], [[Peter Sallis]], Michael Bates, [[Jane Freeman (actress)|Jane Freeman]], [[John Comer]] and [[Kathy Staff]].<ref>The pilot episode for the world's longest running sitcom, ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]'' which ran for thirty one series between 1973-2010.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 105
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = The Rescue
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = TR16
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|1|11|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Moyra Fraser]], Peter Jones, Lucita Lijertwood and [[Nicholas Parsons]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 106
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = Elementary, My Dear Watson
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = VT625
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|1|18|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[John Cleese]], [[Willie Rushton]], [[Bill Maynard]], [[Josephine Tewson]], Norman Bird, Larry Martyn, Michael Gover, [[Ivor Salter]], Gordon Faith, [[Dawn Addams]] and [[John Carson (actor)|John Carson]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 107
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = The Birthday
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = VT625
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|1|25|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Gordon Peters, Frank Thornton, [[Bill Pertwee]], [[Mary Millar]] and Edward Evans.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 108
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = Marry the Girls
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|2|1|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring John Le Mesurier, [[Barbara Murray]], [[Sally Thomsett]], David Simeon and [[John Leeson]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 109
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = Home From Home
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = TR16
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|2|8|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Carmel McSharry]], Michael Robbins, Yootha Joyce, Tony Selby and [[Olive Mercer]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
}}

===Series 14 (1974)===

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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 111
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = [[No Strings (1974 TV series)|No Strings]]
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = VT625
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|4|16|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Keith Barron and [[Rita Tushingham]].<ref>The pilot episode for the series of the same name, which ran for one series broadcast later that year.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 112
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = Franklyn and Johnnie
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|4|23|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Geoffrey Bayldon]], Ronnie Barker, [[Richard Hurndall]], [[Sydney Bromley]] and [[Hugh Morton (actor)|Hugh Morton]]. 
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 113
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = Howerd's History of England
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A<ref>A domestic audio recording exists of the soundtrack, but the programme itself is missing.</ref>
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|4|30|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Frankie Howerd, Patrick Newell, [[Cyril Appleton]] and [[Patrick Holt]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 114
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = [[Happy Ever After (British TV series)|Happy Ever After]] 
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = VT625
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|5|7|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Terry Scott]], June Whitfield, Paul Greenwood, Dave Carter and Philip Ryan.<ref>The pilot episode for the series of the same name, which ran for five series between 1974-9.</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 115
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = The Dobson Donut
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|5|14|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Milo O'Shea, Bernard Spear, [[Jo Kendall]], [[Brian Miller (actor)|Brian Miller]], [[John Ringham]] and Ken Barker.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 116
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = [[Mr. Big (TV series)|The Big Job]]
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = VT625
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|5|21|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Prunella Scales]], Peter Jones, Alfred Marks, Andonia Katsaros, [[Nick Brimble]] and [[Aubrey Woods]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 117
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7
| Title = It's Only Me
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|5|28|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[David Jason]], Patricia Hayes, [[Daphne Heard]], Olive Mercer, [[Edward Burnham]], [[Paul Greenwood]], [[Adrienne Burgess]] and [[Bernard Spear]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 118
| EpisodeNumber2 = 8
| Title = The Last Man on Earth
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = VT625
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|6|4|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Ronald Fraser and [[Dandy Nichols]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 119
| EpisodeNumber2 = 9
| Title = Sitting Pretty
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|6|11|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Nicky Henson]], Una Stubbs and [[James Cossins]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 120
| EpisodeNumber2 = 10
| Title = Pygmalion Smith
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = VT625
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|6|25|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Leonard Rossiter]] and [[T. P. McKenna|T.P. McKenna]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 121
| EpisodeNumber2 = 11
| Title = A Girl's Best Friend
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|7|3|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Zena Walker]], [[Reginald Marsh (actor)|Reginald Marsh]], Carolyn Courage and [[David Knight (actor)|David Knight]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 122
| EpisodeNumber2 = 12
| Title = The Reverend Wooing of Archibald
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|7|9|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Joan Benham]], Julian Holloway, William Mervyn, [[Madeline Smith]], John Leeson and Julian Fox.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 123
| EpisodeNumber2 = 13
| Title = Too Much Monkey Business
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|12|12|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Norman Rossington, [[Pat Heywood]], [[George Innes]], John Ringham and Harold Goodwin.
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = NB
| EpisodeNumber2 = NB
| Title = French Relish
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = Untransmitted
| ShortSummary = Starring Derek Nimmo.<ref>{{Cite web |title=French Relish |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/french_relish/ |website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = NB
| EpisodeNumber2 = NB
| Title = Bird Alone
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = Untransmitted
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Liz Smith (actress)|Liz Smith]] and Yootha Joyce.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bird Alone |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/bird_alone/ |website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
}}

===Series 15 (1975)===

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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 124
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = [[The Melting Pot (TV series)|The Melting Pot]]
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = DV<ref>The only known copy exists on [[U-matic|U-Matic]] videotape.</ref>
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|6|11|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Spike Milligan]], John Bird, Peter Jones, [[Frank Carson]], [[Harry Fowler]], Alister Williamson and Freddie Earlle.<ref>A series of six episodes was taped in August 1975, however they weren't [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2021/08/14/tvs-crown-jewels-racist-nightmares-can-1970s-sitcom-saved/ transmitted].</ref>
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 125
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = Only on Sunday
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|6|18|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Trevor Bannister and [[Peter Bowles]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 126
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = [[For Richer...For Poorer]]
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|6|25|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[David Battley]], Harry H. Corbett, [[Don Henderson]] and [[Eric Pohlmann]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 127
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = Captive Audience
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A<ref>A domestic audio recording exists of the soundtrack, but the programme itself is missing.</ref>
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|7|2|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring Derek Fowlds, Daphne Heard, [[Leslie Dwyer]], Cheryl Hall and [[Leon Vitali]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 128
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = Going, Going, Gone...Free?
| Aux2 = Exists
| Aux3 = VT625
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|7|9|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = Starring [[Pauline Yates]], [[Geoffrey Palmer (actor)|Geoffrey Palmer]] and [[Peter Duncan (actor)|Peter Duncan]].
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
}}

== Revived series ==

=== Series 16 (2014) ===
{{main|Comedy Playhouse (series 16)}}
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=129
 |EpisodeNumber2=1
 |Title=Over to Bill
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2014|4|29|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Starring Shai Ahmed, [[James Baxter (actor)|James Baxter]], [[Hugh Dennis]], [[Neil Morrissey]] and [[Tracy-Ann Oberman]].
 |LineColor=B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=130
 |EpisodeNumber2=2
 |Title=Miller's Mountain
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2014|5|6|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Starring [[Jimmy Chisholm]], [[Kevin Guthrie]], Kathryn Howden, [[Sheila Reid]] and [[Sharon Rooney]].<ref>The pilot of ''[[Mountain Goats (TV series)|Mountain Goats]]'', which ran for one series in 2015.</ref>
 |LineColor=B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=131
 |EpisodeNumber2=3
 |Title=Monks
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2014|5|13|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Starring [[Seann Walsh]], [[James Fleet]], [[Mark Heap]], [[Justin Edwards (actor)|Justin Edwards]], [[Fergus Craig]] and [[Angus Deayton]].
 |LineColor=B0C4DE
}}
}}

=== Series 17 (2016) ===

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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=132
 |EpisodeNumber2=1
 |Title=Hospital People
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2016|2|26|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Starring [[Tom Binns]], [[Amit Shah (actor)|Amit Shah]], [[Janine Duvitski]] and [[Mandeep Dhillon]]. 
 |LineColor=B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=133
 |EpisodeNumber2=2
 |Title=Broken Biscuits
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2016|3|4|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Starring [[Alison Steadman]], [[Stephanie Cole]], [[Timothy West]], Lisa Millet, [[Alun Armstrong]], Brian Compton, [[Warren Brown (actor)|Warren Brown]] and [[Gemma Whelan]]. 
 |LineColor=B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=134
 |EpisodeNumber2=3
 |Title=Stop / Start
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2016|3|11|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Starring [[Jack Docherty]], [[Kerry Godliman]], [[Nigel Havers]], [[Laura Aikman]], [[Sarah Hadland]] and [[John Thomson (comedian)|John Thomson]]. 
 |LineColor=B0C4DE
}}
}}

=== Series 18 (2017) ===

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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=135
 |EpisodeNumber2=1
 |Title=Tim Vine Travels Through Time
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2017|9|1|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Starring [[Tim Vine]], [[Ore Oduba]], [[Sally Phillips]], [[Tim Key]], [[Spencer Jones (comedian)|Spencer Jones]], Mandeep Dhillon and [[Marek Larwood]]. 
 |LineColor=B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=136
 |EpisodeNumber2=2
 |Title=Mister Winner
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2017|9|8|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Starring Spencer Jones, [[Aimee-Ffion Edwards]], [[Dorothy Atkinson]], [[Shaun Williamson]], [[Romesh Ranganathan]] and [[Shobu Kapoor]]. 
 |LineColor=B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=137
 |EpisodeNumber2=3
 |Title=Static
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2017|9|15|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Starring [[Rob Beckett]], Alison Steadman, [[Phil Davis (actor)|Phil Davis]], [[Samson Kayo]], [[Jacqueline Chan]] and Chrissie Cotterill. 
 |LineColor=B0C4DE
}}
}}

==Scottish Comedy Playhouse==
The BBC aired six comedy pilots in 1970 in [[Scotland]] only under the title ''Scottish Comedy Playhouse'', none of which developed onto a full series. While these were being aired, ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' was broadcast in the rest of the UK. All episodes from this series were wiped soon after transmission and are currently missing from the archives.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Scottish Comedy Playhouse |url=https://www.tvbrain.info/tv-archive?showname=SCOTTISH+COMEDY+PLAYHOUSE&type=lostshow |website=TV Brain}}</ref> The episodes are as follows:

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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 1
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = Stand-In For a Hearse
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|9|22|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = 
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 2
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = The Siege of Castle Drumlie
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|9|29|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = 
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 3
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = The Dinner Party
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|10|20|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = 
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 4
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = To Gracie a Son
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|10|28|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = 
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 5
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = Stobo Takes The Chair
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|11|3|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = 
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 6
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = Made in Heaven
| Aux2 = Missing
| Aux3 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|11|10|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = 
| LineColor = #B0C4DE
}}
}}

==See also==
{{Portal|1960s}}
* ''Galton and Simpson Comedy'' - a six part anthology series of stories written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, produced by London Weekend Television, that aired on the ITV network in 1969
* ''[[Six Dates with Barker]]'' - a six part anthology series featuring sitcom pilots starring Ronnie Barker, produced by [[London Weekend Television]], that aired on the ITV network in 1971.
* ''[[The Comedy Game]]'' - an Australian sitcom anthology series that aired on ABC between 1971 and 1973. 
* ''[[Seven of One]]'' - a seven part anthology series featuring sitcom pilots starring Ronnie Barker that aired on [[BBC2]] in 1973.
* ''Cilla's Comedy Six'' - an anthology series of comedic stories starring [[Cilla Black]], produced by ATV, that aired on the ITV network between 1975 and 1976.<ref>For the second series, the show was retitled as ''Cilla's World of Comedy''.</ref>
* ''The Sound of Laughter'' - a six part of anthology series of sitcom pilots produced by [[Associated Television|ATV]], that aired on the ITV network in 1977.
* ''The Galton and Simpson Playhouse'' - a seven part anthology series of sitcom pilots written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, produced by [[ITV Yorkshire|Yorkshire Television]], that aired on the ITV network in 1977.
* ''[[The Comic Strip Presents...]]'' - an anthology series of one off comedic stories that aired on [[Channel 4]] and BBC2 between 1982 and 2016.
* ''[[Murder Most Horrid]]'' - a [[black comedy]] anthology series featuring comedic stories starring [[Dawn French]], that aired on BBC2 between 1991 and 1999.
* ''ITV Comedy Playhouse'' - an eight part anthology series of sitcom pilots produced by [[Carlton Television]], that aired on the ITV network in 1993. 
* ''[[Paul Merton in Galton and Simpson's...]]'' – an anthology series of comedic stories starring [[Paul Merton]], based on scripts by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, produced by [[ITV Central|Central Television]], that aired on the ITV network between 1996 and 1997.

==Notes==
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{{reflist|30em}}

==References==
*[[Mark Lewisohn]], "Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy", BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2003
*[http://www.phill.co.uk/comedy/complay/index.html British TV Comedy Guide for ''Comedy Playhouse'']

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060221021335/http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/cp.htm ''Comedy Playhouse''] at Television Heaven
*{{BBC programme}}
*{{IMDb title|0861749|Comedy Playhouse}}
*[https://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/group/comedy_playhouse/ ''Comedy Playhouse''] at [[British Comedy Guide]]

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