About this season
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.
Episodes (10)
1. Cliquot et Fils
Aired 15 December 1961 • 30 min
An undertaker in 1920s France needs to drum up trade for his ailing business.
2. Lunch in the Park
Aired 22 December 1961 • 30 min
A pair of office workers have for ten years spent their lunch hour on the same park bench.
3. The Private Lives of Edward Whitely
Aired 29 December 1961 • 30 min
The misadventures of bigamist Edward Whitely.
4. The Offer
Aired 5 January 1962 • 30 min
Harold Steptoe, a middle aged rag and bone man, yearns to break away from the clutches of his elderly, conniving, and disgusting father, but events always conspire against him.
5. The Reunion
Aired 12 January 1962 • 30 min
A reunion doesn't go as planned.
6. The Telephone Call
Aired 19 June 1962 • 30 min
A worried man uses his phone to do something about the troubled world.
7. The Status Symbol
Aired 26 January 1962 • 30 min
A garage owner doesn't want to return a customer's Rolls Royce because he he likes the way it looks in his yard.
8. Visiting Day
Aired 2 February 1962 • 30 min
A group of hospital patients prepare for visiting day.
9. Sealed with a Loving Kiss
Aired 9 February 1962 • 30 min
A pair of penpals decide to meet for the first time, but they haven't been telling the truth about themselves.
10. The Channel Swimmer
Aired 16 February 1962 • 30 min
A man determines to swim the Channel.