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 (9)
1. The Bishop Rides Again
Aired 17 May 1966 • 30 min
The misadventures of a group of clergymen in the cloisters of a cathedral.
2. Beggar My Neighbour
Aired 24 May 1966 • 30 min
Two married sisters living next door to one another are locked in a continuous battle of one-upmanship.
3. A Little Learning
Aired 31 May 1966 • 30 min
The Dean of co-educational Sheridan College at the University of Wessex is shocked by the appointment of a new female bursar whom he was once close to.
4. Judgement Day For Elijah Jones
Aired 7 June 1966 • 30 min
Elijah Jones believes the world is about to end and plans to build himself an Ark and stock it with stolen animals.
5. Room At The Bottom
Aired 14 June 1966 • 30 min
The misadventures of the Maintenance Men at Saracens Manufacturing.
6. The End Of The Tunnel
Aired 21 June 1966 • 30 min
A businessman has to start again when his wife leaves him.
7. Seven Year Hitch
Aired 28 June 1966 • 30 min
Complications arise in the lives of Ern and Is Conway, proprietors of an unsuccessful dancing school, when Ern forgets their seventh wdding anniversary.
8. The Mallard Imaginaire
Aired 5 July 1966 • 30 min
Misadventures of an inept MP.
9. The Reluctant Romeo
Aired 2 August 1966 • 30 min
Advertising executive Thomas Jones finds himself irresistible to women, but would prefer to concentrate on his job and his fiancée Sally.