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Comedy Parade[edit]
Comedy Parade is an British radio anthology series that was first broadcast non-consecutively from 1964 to 1986. The series aired unrelated comedy pilot episodes each week, with the intention of developing those pilot episodes into full series.
Fifty-one episodes were broadcast during the series run; twelve of which became series. These included: Now Listen; Spare a Copper; There's One Born Every Minute; the 1971 version of Just the Job; Radio Tarbuck; Our Les; Parsley Sidings; I'm Ken, He's Bill; The Motorway Men; Albert and Me; You Start, I'll Join In; and The Phenomenon Squad.
Episodes[edit]
Series 1 (1964)[edit]
This series of Comedy Parade first aired on the BBC Light Programme at 8:00 pm on Thursday.
# | Title | Written by | Produced by | First broadcast | Ref |
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1 | "Now Listen" | Charles Hart and Peter Bishop | Bill Worsley | 27 August 1964 | |
2 | "Askey Rides Again" | Les Lilley and Chic Jacob | Edward Taylor | 3 September 1964 | |
3 | "It Takes All Sorts" | Philip Evans | John Simmonds | 10 September 1964 | |
4 | "The Kerbstone Twist Show" | Michael Sharland | Trafford Whitelock | 17 September 1964 | |
5 | "Wilkie" | Marty Feldman | John Browell | 24 September 1964 | |
6 | "Going Places" | James Casey and Frank Roscoe | James Casey | 1 October 1964 | |
7 | "Mostly Murdoch" | Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke | Edward Taylor | 8 October 1964 | |
8 | "Down with Women" | Alastair Foot | John Browell | 15 October 1964 | |
9 | "Nobody But Doddy" | Eddie Braben and Ken Dodd | Bill Worsley | 22 October 1964 | |
10 | "The Spy's the Limit, or, Whatever Happened to Agent 0091?" | Dick Sharples | Trafford Whitelock | 29 October 1964 | |
11 | "The Andy Stewart Show" | Kenneth Little | Eddie Fraser | 5 November 1964 | |
12 | "Spare a Copper" | John Esmonde and Bob Larbey | Edward Taylor | 12 November 1964 | |
13 | "The Fourteen Stone Five Show" | Mike Sharland | Edward Taylor | 19 November 1964 | |
14 | "Admiral at Anchor" | Kenneth Hayles | Edward Taylor | 26 November 1964 | |
15 | "A State of Chaos" | Hugh Woodhouse and Ken Hoare | Charles Maxwell | 3 December 1964 | |
16 | "One Night of Jim" | George Evans and Derek Collyer | Charles Maxwell | 10 December 1964 | |
17 | "The Don Arrol Programme" | Denis Goodwin | John Browell | 17 December 1964 | |
18 | Comedy Parade presents Joyce Grenfell | N/A | Bill Worsley | 24 December 1964 |
Series 2 (1965)[edit]
This series of Comedy Parade first aired on the BBC Light Programme at 8:00 pm on Thursday.
# | Title | Written by | Produced by | First broadcast | Ref |
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1 | "How About That" | Bryan Blackburn | Edward Taylor | 14 October 1965 | |
2 | "Just the Job" | Artie Jackson | Edward Taylor | 21 October 1965 | |
3 | "There's One Born Every Minute" | Dick Sharples | Trafford Whitelock | 28 October 1965 | |
4 | "Mike to Mike" | Michael Howard | Bill Worsley | 4 November 1965 | |
5 | "Brotherly Loves" | Godfrey Harrison | David O’Clee | 11 November 1965 | |
6 | "Jiminy Cricket" | Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke, Peter Vincent and David McKellar, Jim Dale, Gordon Clyde | Richard Willcox | 18 November 1965 | |
7 | "Now for Nixon" | Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke | John Simmonds | 25 November 1965 | |
8 | "Marriage Afloat" | John Esmonde and Bob Larbey | Bill Gates | 2 December 1965 | |
9 | "Hudd – But Not Seen" | Eric Davidson | John Fawcett Wilson | 9 December 1965 |
Series 3 (1971)[edit]
This series of Comedy Parade first aired on BBC Radio 2 at 2:30 pm on Sunday.
# | Title | Written by | Produced by | First broadcast | Ref |
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1 | "Second Time Around" | Malcolm Hulke and Ray Mansell | Trafford Whitelock | 3 January 1971 | |
2 | "The Yarwood News" | Mike Craig and Lawrie Kinsley | Geoff Lawrence and James Casey | 10 January 1971 | |
3 | "Just the Job" | Colin Mares | Edward Taylor | 17 January 1971 | |
4 | "A Right Load of Junkin" | Mike Craig and Lawrie Kinsley | James Casey | 24 January 1971 | |
5 | "For Love of a Lady" | Philip Learoyd | John Cassels | 31 January 1971 | |
6 | "Radio Tarbuck" | Mike Craig, Lawrie Kinsley and Ron McDonnell | James Casey | 7 February 1971 | |
7 | "Like My Neighbour" | John Lawson | Eddie Fraser | 14 February 1971 | |
8 | "Our Les" | James Casey | James Casey | 21 February 1971 | |
9 | "Parsley Sidings" | Jim Eldridge | Edward Taylor | 28 February 1971 | |
10 | "I'm Ken, He's Bill" | Richard Matthews and John Davis | Edward Taylor | 7 March 1971 | |
11 | "Hush Hush, Here Comes the Bolshie Man" | Peter Spence | David Hatch | 14 March 1971 | |
12 | "The Motorway Men" | Peter Child and Peter Matthews | Alastair Scott Johnston | 21 March 1971 | |
13 | "Try Anything Once" | Chris Allen | Edward Taylor | 28 March 1971 |
Series 4 (1977)[edit]
This series of Comedy Parade first aired on BBC Radio 2 at 7:30 pm on Wednesday.
# | Title | Written by | Produced by | First broadcast | Ref |
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1 | "Albert and Me" | Jim Eldridge | John Fawcett Wilson | 5 January 1977 | |
2 | "This Man Corbett" | Chris Allen | John Fawcett Wilson | 12 January 1977 | |
3 | "The Menacing Custard" | Tony Hart | Martin Fisher | 19 January 1977 | |
4 | "Beetles and Buckman's Open Window" | Rob Buckman and Christopher Beetles | Bob Oliver Rogers | 26 January 1977 | |
5 | "God Bless the Price of Whales" | Andrew Palmer | John Lloyd | 2 February 1977 | |
6 | "Settle Down Now" | James Casey | James Casey | 9 February 1977 |
Series 5 (1986)[edit]
This series of Comedy Parade first aired on BBC Radio 4 at 11:30 pm on Saturday. For this series, episodes were aired as part of "the five best entries from last year's Radio Times comedy writing competition" and the series was known as Radio Times Comedy Parade [link to the first episode of this series of Comedy Parade].
# | Title | Written by | Produced by | First broadcast | Ref |
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1 | "You Start, I'll Join In" | David Bond and Paul Hawksbee | Pete Atkin | 18 October 1986 | |
2 | "The Phenomenon Squad" | Michael Snelgrove | Paul Mayhew-Archer | 25 October 1986 | |
3 | "Circus Circus" | Bill Brennan | Mark Robson | 1 November 1986 | |
4 | "The Collapse of the Romanov Autocracy" | Phil Steer | Pete Atkin | 8 November 1986 | |
5 | "Brian the Wise" | Ewart Hutton | John Fawcett Wilson | 15 November 1986 |
See also[edit]
- Comedy Playhouse, a British television anthology series
- The Comedy Game, an Australian television anthology series
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It Sticks Out Half a Mile[edit]
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Producer Martin Fisher recalled that he was only called in to produce the series because the original pilot producer, Jonathan James-Moore, had fallen ill. [cite=Then Cpt Main. died.] Bobby Jay, the Head of Light Entertainment in Radio, requested that Fisher take over producing the series. Fisher recalled that the series "was very pleasant, all the cast were very cooperative and helpful, and it went very well".
In a preview article for the Radio Times by Robert Ottaway, published a day before transmission of the first episode, Ian Lavender reflected on the legacy of Dad's Army: "I played with that team for 10 years. The atmosphere… was so great between us." He went on to add that he believed that the atmosphere "carries on, now we are supposed to be three years older" in It Sticks Out Half a Mile. He also spoke about the advantages of radio: "I don’t need so much Brylcreem and eyeshadow to disguise myself, my voice is more or less the same."[1][2]
A second Radio Times article by David Gillard, titled "Nostalgia at the End of the Pier" and published three days before the repeat broadcast of the first episode, on 14 July 1984, featured an interview with Bill Pertwee, who stated that It Sticks Out Half a Mile was "the end of the road for Dad's Army". Pertwee believed that this was the final time members of the Dad's Army cast would work together. He recalled: "The series had originally been mainly written around Arthur Lowe and John, and when Arthur died it had to be re-jigged. John had not been well, though he was feeling better when we recorded the series, but I think we all realised that we'd had a great run – the programmes started on TV in 1968 – and we were coming to the end of it."[1][2]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "It Sticks Out Half A Mile press clippings". British Comedy Guide. Archived from the original on 22 December 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- ^ a b Pertwee 2009, p. 180.