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 (6)
1. Our Man in Moscow
Aired 1 March 1962 • 30 min
A Russian musician asks for political asylum and gives the British ambassador troubles.
2. And Here, All The Way From ...
Aired 8 March 1963 • 30 min
District Commissioner Donald Lawrence travels to London from Borneo in order to be a guest on his brother's ""This Is Your Life,"" but the show is called off.
3. Impasse
Aired 15 March 1962 • 30 min
Two drivers refuse to give way to each other.
4. Have You Read This Notice?
Aired 29 March 1963 • 30 min
Norman is beset by nerves as he tries to sneak a watch through the ""Nothing To Declare"" channel at an airport.
5. A Clerical Error
Aired 5 April 1963 • 30 min
A con-man, recently released from Wormwood Scrubs prison, dresses up as a clergyman and turns up in a pub collecting for a highly dubious charity.
6. The Handyman
Aired 12 April 1963 • 30 min
An out of work machine minder takes a job as a Handyman at a health club.