List Of Comedies By Year
Here is the history of British comedy, sorted by the year shows were first broadcast...
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2013A guide to the comedies broadcast in 2013. New shows launched this year include Up The Women (pictured), Snodgrass, Rory Goes To Holyrood and Way To Go. |
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2012A guide to the comedies broadcast in 2012. New shows launched this year included Michael Grade's History Of The Pantomime Dame (pictured), Peter Kay Live: The Tour That Didn't Tour - Tour, Toast Of London and Clive Dunn: A Tribute. |
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2011A guide to the comedies broadcast in 2011. New shows launched this year included So This Is Christmas (pictured), Sitcom Does..., The Café and Tim Minchin: Ready For This?. |
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2010A guide to the comedies broadcast in 2010. New shows launched this year included The Gemma Factor (pictured), Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights, The Story Of Are You Being Served? and Michael McIntyre: Hello Wembley!. |
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2009A guide to the comedies broadcast in 2009. New shows launched this year included TNT Show (pictured), Boy Meets Girl, Horrible Histories and The Fattest Man In Britain. |
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2008A guide to the comedies broadcast in 2008. New shows launched this year included Mr And Mrs Fandango (pictured), Jonathan Ross Salutes Dad's Army, New Heroes Of Comedy and Greatest Comedy Catchphrases. |
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2007A guide to the comedies broadcast in 2007. New shows launched this year included Free Agents (pictured), Swizzcall, Alan Carr: Tooth Fairy Live and Christmas At The Riviera. |
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2006A guide to the comedies broadcast in 2006. New shows launched this year included Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor (pictured), Mark's Home Videos, Mayo and Modern Worries. |
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2005A guide to the comedies broadcast in 2005. New shows launched this year included The Green Green Grass (pictured), World Shut Your Mouth, Swinging and The Robinsons. |
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2004A guide to the comedies broadcast in 2004. New shows launched this year included Ronnie Barker: A BAFTA Tribute (pictured), Help! I'm A Teenage Outlaw, Catterick and Peter Kay Live At The Manchester Arena. |
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2003A guide to the comedies broadcast in 2003. New shows launched this year included The Bronx Bunny Show (pictured), The Booze Cruise, Hardware and 3 Non-Blondes. |
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2002A guide to the comedies broadcast in 2002. New shows launched this year included Wallace And Gromit's Cracking Contraptions (pictured), Brain Candy, Manchild and The Pooters. |
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2001A guide to the comedies broadcast in 2001. New shows launched this year included Bedtime (pictured), Mr Charity, Friday Night With Jonathan Ross and The Kumars At No. 42. |
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2000A guide to the comedies broadcast in 2000. New shows launched this year included Don't Panic! The Dad's Army Story (pictured), Mirrorball, My Family and My Hero. |
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1999A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1999. New shows launched this year included Jasper Carrott - Back To The Front (pictured), Spaced, Wilmot and The Entertainer. |
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1998A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1998. New shows launched this year included Heartburn Hotel (pictured), In The Red, Slap! - Love, Lies And Lipstick and A Many Splintered Thing. |
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1997A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1997. New shows launched this year included Cows (pictured), Jo Brand: Like It Or Lump It, Loved By You and A Life On The Box. |
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1996A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1996. New shows launched this year included Over Here (pictured), A Gala Comedy Hour - Best Of The Prince's Trust, Roger Roger and The Office. |
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1995A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1995. New shows launched this year included The Best Of Kenny Everett's Television Shows (pictured), Faith In The Future, The Chamber and Waiting. |
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1994A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1994. New shows launched this year included The High Life (pictured), Class Act, Men Of The World and The Tales Of Para Handy. |
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1993A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1993. New shows launched this year included The Wrong Trousers (pictured), Once In A Lifetime, Inside Victor Lewis-Smith and Newman And Baddiel In Pieces. |
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1992A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1992. New shows launched this year included Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast (pictured), The Big One, My Dead Dad and The Pall Bearer's Revue. |
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1991A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1991. New shows launched this year included Joking Apart (pictured), Radio Roo, Plaza Patrol and Rich Tea And Sympathy. |
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1990A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1990. New shows launched this year included Waiting For God (pictured), Not With A Bang, 24 Carrott Gold and On The Up. |
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1989A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1989. New shows launched this year included A Grand Day Out With Wallace And Gromit (pictured), Bradley, Snakes And Ladders and Laura And Disorder. |
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1988A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1988. New shows launched this year included Friday Night Live (pictured), Red Dwarf, Colin's Sandwich and Spin Off. |
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1987A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1987. New shows launched this year included High & Dry (pictured), Superfrank, Kin Of The Castle and Hardwicke House. |
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1986A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1986. New shows launched this year included Beadle's About (pictured), A Bit Of Fry & Laurie, Dear John.... and Hell's Bells. |
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1985A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1985. New shows launched this year included Full House (pictured), Super Gran, The Gender Gap and Happy Families. |
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1984A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1984. New shows launched this year included The Bullshitters (pictured), Fresh Fields, Round And Round and They Came From Somewhere Else. |
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1983A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1983. New shows launched this year included Who Dares Wins... (pictured), Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, The Crystal Cube and Cuffy. |
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1982A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1982. New shows launched this year included Goodbye Mr Kent (pictured), Horace, Jane and Whoops Apocalypse. |
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1981A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1981. New shows launched this year included Take A Letter Mr. Jones... (pictured), West End Tales, Revolting Women and The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. |
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1980A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1980. New shows launched this year included Hi-De-Hi! (pictured), Grundy, Tell It To The Jungle and Him And His Magic. |
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1979A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1979. New shows launched this year included Bloomers (pictured), The Tea Ladies, Cannon And Ball and Only When I Laugh. |
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1978A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1978. New shows launched this year included The Morecambe & Wise Show (pictured), The Kenny Everett Video Show, Bless Me, Father and Scotch And Wry. |
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1977A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1977. New shows launched this year included Cheers (pictured), The Boys And Mrs B, Chalk And Cheese and Mind Your Language. |
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1976A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1976. New shows launched this year included Ripping Yarns (pictured), The Many Wives Of Patrick, The Day I Shot My Dad and The Two Ronnies Present - The Picnic. |
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1975A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1975. New shows launched this year included The Life Of Riley (pictured), Dawson's Electric Cinema, Honey and After That, This. |
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1974A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1974. New shows launched this year included Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt (pictured), French Relish, Sing The Lady Out Of Bed and The Wheeltappers And Shunters Social Club. |
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1973A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1973. New shows launched this year included Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (pictured), Open All Hours, Spanner's Eleven and Y Garej. |
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1972A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1972. New shows launched this year included Clochemerle (pictured), Joyce Grenfell, Alcock And Gander and Shut That Door!. |
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1971A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1971. New shows launched this year included Bless This House (pictured), Dave Allen At Large, Sykes And A Big, Big Show and Coppers End. |
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1970A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1970. New shows launched this year included The Goodies (pictured), Carry On Forever, The Old Contemptible and The Lovers. |
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1969A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1969. New shows launched this year included On The Buses (pictured), Monty Python's Flying Circus, John Browne's Body and Two In Clover. |
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1968A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1968. New shows launched this year included Inside George Webley (pictured), Thicker Than Water, The World Of Beachcomber and Me Mammy. |
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1967A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1967. New shows launched this year included Turn Out The Lights (pictured), Sam And Janet, The Old Campaigner and Do Not Adjust Your Set. |
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1966A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1966. New shows launched this year included All Gas And Gaiters (pictured), The Dickie Henderson Show, Al Read Says What A Life! and Foreign Affairs. |
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1965A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1965. New shows launched this year included Pardon The Expression (pictured), The Worker, Hudd and The Airbase. |
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1964A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1964. New shows launched this year included HMS Paradise (pictured), ABC Of Britain, The Mate Market and A World Of His Own. |
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1963A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1963. New shows launched this year included Marriage Lines (pictured), Mr Justice Duncannon, Fit For Heroes and Best Of Fred. |
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1962A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1962. New shows launched this year included Steptoe And Son (pictured), Benny Hill, The Reunion and Hugh And I. |
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1961A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1961. New shows launched this year included The Rag Trade (pictured), The Eggheads, Ask Mr Pastry and Moody In.... |
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1960A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1960. New shows launched this year included Sykes And A... (pictured), The Love Of Mike, The Strange World Of Gurney Slade and Glencannon. |
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1959A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1959. New shows launched this year included The Artful Dodger, On The Bright Side and Call Me Sam. |
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1958A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1958. New shows launched this year included The Larkins (pictured), Captain Moonlight - Man Of Mystery, New Look and Herlock And Sholmes. |
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1957A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1957. New shows launched this year included The Arthur Haynes Show (pictured), Be Soon, The Army Game and Club Night. |
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1956A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1956. New shows launched this year included Hancock's Half Hour (pictured), A Show Called Fred, Two's Company and Scott Free. |
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1955A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1955. New shows launched this year included Sunday Night At The London Palladium (pictured), Bath-Night With Braden, Mr Majeika and Joan And Leslie. |
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1954A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1954. New shows launched this year included Running Wild (pictured), Happy Holidays, Fast And Loose and Dear Dotty. |
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1953A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1953. New shows launched this year included Billy Bunter Of Greyfriars School, Free And Easy and The Great Detective. |
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1952A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1952. New shows launched this year included Reg Varney, Silk, Satin, Cotton, Rags and A Flight Of Fancy. |
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1951A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1951. New shows launched this year included Mr Pastry's Holiday Show, At Your Service, Ltd and Show Me A Spy!. |
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1950A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1950. New shows launched this year included Joyce Grenfell, Out Of This World and Mr Pastry's Progress. |
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1949A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1949. |
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1948A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1948. |
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1947A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1947. New shows launched this year included The Handle Bar, Going Places and Just For Fun. |
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1946A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1946. New shows launched this year included Pinwright's Progress (pictured), Ballet 'How', The Village Store and Paging You. |
1940 - 1945 Word War II resulted in the fledgling BBC Television Service shutting down. There was no TV at all between 1940 - 1945. BBC Home Service radio continued to be broadcast during this period and some films were released, however we have not yet established what, if any, new comedy programming was made during this period. | |
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1939A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1939. New shows launched this year included Bebe Daniels And Ben Lyon, Percy Ponsonby... and Take Two Eggs. |
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1938A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1938. New shows launched this year included Half-An-Hour, Light Relief and Moving Furniture. |
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1937A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1937. New shows launched this year included Naunton Wayne, Billy Maloney and Reginald Purdell. |
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1936A guide to the comedies broadcast in 1936. New shows launched this year included Claude Dampier (pictured). |
Pre 1936 The BBC's Television Service started in 1936, before this time broadcast comedy only came in the form of movies and the radio (BBC National Programme). Because of a lack of recordings and paperwork for this period, we have not begun to research what comedy was broadcast in these pre-TV days yet. | |













































































































































































































