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 (17)
1. On The Knocker
Aired 28 September 1963 • 30 min
Exploits of door-to-door salesman Ronnie Fender.
2. Underworld Nights
Aired 5 October 1963 • 30 min
Exploits of crime writer Vogler.
3. Fools Rush In
Aired 12 October 1963 • 30 min
A retired Major tries to adjust to civilian life.
4. Shamrot
Aired 19 October 1963 • 30 min
Dermot is a London-born Irishman who hates everything about England, but has never even been to the ""Old Country.""
5. The Bachelor Girls
Aired 26 October 1963 • 30 min
Two young girls about town share a flat.
6. The Plan
Aired 2 November 1963 • 30 min
Albert Fawkes hates his surname and rebels against it by trying to re-enact the Gunpowder Plot.
7. A Picture of Innocence
Aired 9 November 1963 • 30 min
Northern Arthur Berry develops an interest in art.
8. Nicked at the Bottle
Aired 16 November 1963 • 30 min
Lawyer Mossy advises Mrs Emily Trout and her family of crooks.
9. The Chars
Aired 23 November 1963 • 30 min
Exploits of two charladies at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
10. Comrades in Arms
Aired 30 November 1963 • 30 min
A window cleaner witnesses an extramarital affair and is soon involved in farcical cover-up shenanigans.
11. The Walrus and the Carpenter
Aired 14 December 1963 • 30 min
Exploits of a pair of mismatched elderly friends.
12. The Bed
Aired 28 December 1963 • 30 min
The ups and downs of a Northern married couple.
13. The Mate Market
Aired 3 January 1964 • 30 min
Exploits of marriage bureau owner John Cook.
14. The Hen House
Aired 10 January 1964 • 30 min
Mrs Fanwyn runs her Khartoum House Girls Hostel with a firm hand.
15. The Siege of Sydney's Street
Aired 17 January 1964 • 30 min
Sydney Lord hates beaurocracy and determines to fight it whenever he finds it.
16. The Mascot
Aired 24 January 1964 • 30 min
Mad keen football fan Arnold Birtwhistle is mascot of Northtown Football Club, but new chairman Mr Gibson wants to change the club's image.
17. Good Luck Sir, You've Got A Lucky Face
Aired 31 January 1964 • 30 min
Match seller Gomorrah Weevil tangles with slum landlord Harold Harbinger.