Comrade Dad

Reading about this excellent if very much of its time show, featuring the inimitable Cole.

As a fan of cold war chic this is especially good fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytoSJadmlIg

Excellent is quite a stretch.

Well half of my affection is from sentimentality. But a nice set of zig zagging gags very much of the time.

I think I remember this. Him out of Minder was in it.
It was ok but it did not make me laugh.

I watched this recently and I don't believe I laughed once. A few smirks were raised by the various sight gags involving satirical billboards about communism, but that was it. George Cole is on good form, but has a dire script to work with. As SootyJ said above, it is very much of its time.

Flicking through the Radio Times guide to TV comedy I found out about an untitled strand of pilots on BBC Two, which this was part of. It was successful in the sense that all four pilots got series, but none of them got much further than that. And this is the only one with a thread.

The others were Hilary, The Clairvoyant, and The New Statesman (not the Rik Mayall one obviously).