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Comedy Playhouse

1961 – 2017 · BBC One
18 seasons · 142 episodes
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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.

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Spencer Jones
Friar Tuck
Julie Martin
Frances Renaud
Janet Hannington
Mandy
David Jason
Quentin
Rita Tushingham
Leonora
Madeline Smith
Aurelia Cammerleigh

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Status
Ended
Type
Scripted
First aired
Dec 15, 1961
Original language
EN
Country
GB

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