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 (14)
1. The Melting Pot
Aired 11 June 1975 • 30 min
2. Only on Sunday
Aired 18 June 1975 • 30 min
An episode of Comedy Playhouse where Trevor Bannister and Peter Bowles play two friends who tell their wives they play for a local cricket team. Every Sunday they grab their cricket gear and head off to the local cricket pitch. This is just a front because really they going off to meet their girlfriends as they do every Sunday. The deception goes on for quite some time until one weekend the wives decide to go with them. What happens next is hilarious.
3. For Richer... For Poorer
Aired 25 June 1975 • 30 min
4. Captive Audience
Aired 2 July 1975 • 30 min
5. Going, Going, Gone... Free?
Aired 9 July 1975 • 30 min
A divorcee looks forward to being single again.
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Aired 21 May 1974 • 30 min
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Aired 28 May 1974 • 30 min
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Aired 4 June 1974 • 30 min
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Aired 11 June 1974 • 30 min
10. Pygmalion Smith
Aired 25 June 1974 • 30 min
Pygmalion 'Smithy' Smith, a less than glamorous photographer at an out of work holiday resort, tries to make a young girl into a star.
11. A Girl's Best Friend
Aired 3 July 1974 • 30 min
Divorcée Audrey Dalton learns she is going out with the same man as her daughter.
12. The Reverent Wooing Of Archibald
Aired 9 July 1974 • 30 min
Archibald Mulliner enlists the help of his Uncle in wooing the girl of his dreams.
13. French Relish
Aired 16 July 1974 • 30 min