Recommended Products
From books to Blu-rays and CDs to DVDs, there are many options to choose from in the varied world of British comedy, whether you want to relive a sketch show from your youth or catch up on the latest hit sitcom. Of course, we can't all own, watch, read or listen to everything, and there's plenty to cater to a range of tastes and interests, but here's our selection of some items you might like to add to your collection.
Citizen James
Sid Balmoral James is a hard-working layabout, gambler and con artist, hanging out in Charlie's Nosh Bar and on the Soho streets, occasionally stopping off at Liz's drinking club to borrow money to pay off his gambling debts and cons gone wrong.
Includes all 10 surviving episodes of the 1960s...
Just Good Friends - The Complete Series 1 - 3 And Christmas Special
Paul Nicholas and Jan Francis are outstanding in their roles as Vince - the cockney, unreliable, Jack-the-lad with a witty one-liner for every occasion - and Penny - the posh, prim and proper lady. When Vince got cold feet and left Penny standing at the altar, Penny got on with...
Brass Eye - Series And Special
All six episodes from Chris Morris's controversial spoof on current affairs television.
Animals includes Paul Daniels's impassioned appeal on behalf of a distressed elephant. Drugs features a host of celebrities condemning the made-up drug, Cake. Science has Steven Berkoff warn the nation about the dangers of heavy electricity. Sex explores...
The Fosters - The Complete First Series
The first sitcom written both for and starring black actors, The Fosters showcased the early work of Lenny Henry (riding high on a recent win in talent series New Faces) as the budding artist son of easygoing family man Samuel Foster (Norman Beaton, who would go on to gain fame...
The Complete Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister
This complete collection includes every episode of the hugely popular political satire Yes Minister Series 1 - 3 (which first aired in 1980 on BBC 2), along with each episode in the subsequent two series of Yes, Prime Minister (which aired from 1986).
Meet the bewildered Rt Hon James Hacker,...
The Good Life - Complete Collection
Celebrating 35 years since its original broadcast, and available for the first time in series order, this is the comedy series that put organic foods, self-sufficiency and green thinking on the map.
On his 40th birthday, Tom Good (Richard Briers) decides that he's had enough of the rat race, and...
Love Thy Neighbour - The Complete Series + Feature Film
All eight series of the British 1970s sitcom featuring feuding neighbours.
Eddie Booth (Jack Smethurst), a white, working-class socialist is dismayed when Bill (Rudolph Walker), a black, educated Conservative moves in next door with his wife Barbie (Nina Baden-Semper). While Eddie struggles to come to terms with the political views...
Morecambe & Wise: Two Of A Kind - The Complete Series
Morecambe and Wise, undoubtedly the best-loved double act that Britain has ever produced, first achieved their phenomenal television success in the early 1960s with this long-running hit series for ATV. Showcasing their mildly anarchic humour, impeccable sense of timing and keen eye for the absurd in a feast of uproarious...
Blackadder Remastered - The Ultimate Edition
This deluxe edition includes fantastic digitally remastered episodes plus a whole host of special features, many of which are completely exclusive to DVD.
Digitally remastered, the collection brings together all four eras of the classic comedy starring Rowan Atkinson, plus every single TV special. Each series traces the sniveling title...
An Audience With Jasper Carrott - The Complete Series
Comedian, actor, folk singer and TV presenter Jasper Carrott first came to national attention in 1975 with his top five double-A-side hit single, Funky Moped/Magic Roundabout.
Thirty-five years on, he remains one of Britain's best-loved comic performers. His many awards include a BAFTA (for Carrott's Lib) and a Lifetime Achievement...
The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin - The Complete Collection
This definitive collection includes all 21 episodes from the three series of The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin, as well as an array of additional features which are new to DVD, including the post-Reggie series The Legacy Of Reginald Perrin and a special 1982 Christmas sketch.
The Fall And...
Cannon And Ball - The Complete First Series
First series of the classic sketch and stand-up series starring Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball.
Having been given their major TV break on Bruce Forsyth's Big Night in 1978, Oldham welders-turned clubland stars Cannon and Ball went from strength to strength, and this ratings-winning LWT series, launched the following year,...
Till Death Us Do Part
Highly popular - and more than a little controversial - Johnny Speight's classic sitcom satirised the less acceptable aspects of conservative working-class culture and the yawning generation gap, creating a sea change in television comedy that influenced just about every sitcom that followed. As relevant today as when first transmitted,...
Outnumbered - The Complete Collection
Behold the complete collection of Outnumbered, the semi-improvised awards-winning comedy that has touched the hearts of the nation.
Revel in a full five series and seven years with the Brockmans, discovering how this chaotic and charming family has grown and matured with us.
Outnumbered has redefined the family comedy by...
Dear John.... - The Complete Collection
Dear John comes refreshed to DVD for all fans of great British comedy.
From writer John Sullivan (Only Fools And Horses, Citizen Smith and Just Good Friends), Dear John is a gem in the crown of British television comedy. The programme ran for two series and one special in 1986...
The Two Ronnies - The Complete Collection
From 1971 to 1987, over 12 series, four Christmas specials and two classic silent films, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett combined to produce one of the most popular television comedy series ever made.
From their introduction, "And in a packed programme tonight..." to the "Goodnight from him" finale, viewers savoured...
The Complete Thin Blue Line
Rowan Atkinson stars as Inspector Fowler in 14 episodes of Ben Elton's popular 1990s police sitcom, The Thin Blue Line.
David Haig, Serena Evans, James Dreyfus, Mina Anwar and Rudolph Walker are Fowler's long-suffering colleagues in both uniformed and CID branches.
From football hooliganism to bank robbery; student pranks to...
The Ronnie Barker Ultimate Collection
A collection of classic BBC Ronnie Barker shows, including four series of Open All Hours; the three series and Christmas specials of Porridge; the follow up sitcom Going Straight; the Clarence series starring Barker as a short-sighted removals man; all seven episodes of Seven Of One; and The Magnificent Evans.
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The Ronnie Barker Collection - Hark At Barker / Six Dates With Barker
All 15 episodes from the 1969 series Hark At Barker, alongside six one-off episodes from the 1971 series Six Dates With Barker.
Ronnie Barker stars alongside the likes of David Jason in these gems of comedy from ITV's archive.
Hi-De-Hi! - The Complete Collection
Welcome to Maplin's, Britain's favourite holiday camp, where the sun-drenched summer never ends. Here we find our heroic Yellowcoats involved in all kinds of jolly japes and comic capers, in the chalets, in the Hawaiian Ballroom and all around the Olympic-sized swimming pool. So roll up your trousers and get...
George And The Dragon - The Complete Series
All four series of the late 1960s British television comedy George And The Dragon starring Sid James.
James plays George Russell, chauffeur to the aristocratic Colonel Maynard (John Le Mesurier). The Colonel has immense trouble in keeping a housekeeper, as the lecherous George can't keep his hands to himself. However,...
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em - The Complete Series Plus Christmas Specials
The complete Series 1-3 plus the three Christmas specials of the 1970s BBC sitcom starring Michael Crawford as the accident-prone Frank Spencer.
Well-meaning and optimistic, but naïve, clueless and spectacularly incompetent, Frank would find situations spiraling hilariously out of control. His long-suffering wife Betty can only stand by and watch...
The Goodies - A Binge Of Goodies
In 1970, The Goodies unleashed their legendary blend of surreal storylines, strikingly topical satire, slapstick and general lunacy on an unsuspecting viewing public. Capturing the irreverent and rebellious flavour of the decade, this phenomenally popular, award-winning series spread its mischief over twelve years, making household names of creators, writers and...
The Ultimate Fast Show Collection
The complete collection of The Fast Show, featuring characters such as Ted and Ralph, coughing Bob Fleming, the "Suit you, sir" tailors from hell and the bloke in the stupid hat.
A Fish Called Wanda
Archie Leach (John Cleese, who also provides the script) is a repressed English barrister charged with defending gangster George (Tom Georgeson), who has just pulled off a multi-million jewel heist with the aid of the beautiful Wanda (Jamie Lee Curtis), her psychotic 'brother' Otto (Kevin Kline) and stuttering animal rights...
George & Mildred - The Complete Series
This 6 disc set contains all the series of this classic Man About The House spin-off.
The acclaimed series follows dispassionate landlord George Roper (Brian Murphy - Last Of The Summer Wine) and his upwardly mobile wife Mildred (Yootha Joyce - Nearest And Dearest), as they move from working class...
Coupling - The Complete Series 1, 2, 3 & 4
Complete collection of this popular television series about a group of six friends - three men and three women - and the ups and downs they encounter playing the 21st century dating game.
A range of extras include interviews, commentaries, documentaries, script extracts, out-takes and more.
The Ealing Studios Collection - Vol. 1
Ealing Studios' output from the 1940s and the 1950s helped define what was arguably the golden age for British cinema. This Blu-ray collection brings together three much loved comedy classics, directed by Ealing stalwarts Robert Hamer, Charles Crichton and Alexander Mackendrick, and starring the great Sir Alec Guinness in some...
Drop The Dead Donkey - The Complete Box Set
For the first time ever, all six series of the brilliant, topical TV comedy series Drop The Dead Donkey are featured in this 11 disc DVD box set.
Familiarise yourself with Globelink News, primed to bring you the latest headlines...somehow. Under the ineffective management of Gus, the team bicker, tease,...
Game On - The Complete TV Series 1-3
They're young, they're bright and they're sexy so why aren't they having a good time?
All three series of TV's smash-hit comedy Game On are included in this complete box set.
Join Matthew (the agoraphobic, self-obsessed, macho man); Martin (the wimpish, sex-starved underdog) and Mandy (the gorgeous blonde, who always...
Monty Python's Flying Circus - The Complete Box Set
Spanning eight discs, this box set includes the complete four series collection of Monty Python's Flying Circus - a defining, revolutionary programme in the history of British television comedy.
Alongside all 46 episodes of the original BBC1 and BBC2 series are a selection of new special features.
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The New (Incomplete) Complete And Utter History Of Britain
Written by and starring Michael Palin and Terry Jones, The Complete And Utter History Of Britain was among a handful of series that formed a template for Monty Python's Flying Circus.
This series offered a typically Pythonesque look at British history - as if television had been around to cover...
Tommy Cooper
It's magic, mirth and music - just like that!
Tommy Cooper was a man who only had to walk on stage to cause hysterics - a constant presence on television for four decades, he was instantly recognisable by his imposing frame, lame jokes and trademark fez. His joyfully chaotic shows,...
Jonathan Creek - The Complete Collection
Meet the magician with a gift for solving impossible crimes. Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is the unsung genius who creates baffling tricks for a top illusionist. Gradually he is drawn into a world of macabre murders and miraculous events for which there would appear...
Funny Way To Be A Hero
The stand-up comedian is our hero. Unchanged fundamentally since the days of the Music Hall, he - and occasionally she - has been a waspish or laconic or outrageous commentator on politics, sex, work, friends and the family.
In Funny Way To Be A Hero, John Fisher traces the traditions...
An Audience With... - Kenneth Williams - Special Edition
Kenneth Williams takes a witty and entertaining look at his career in front of a celebrity audience. Starting with entertaining in the army, through radio and Hancock's Half Hour, then onto theatre and then film with the Carry On series. Be entertained by both Williams and his audience as the...
Rising Damp - The Complete TV Series Plus The Movie
Includes all 28 episodes from the TV series, plus the movie.
A genuine British comedy classic, the popularity of Rising Damp remains unparalleled some 25 years after the first transmission. Detailing the day-to-day events at Rigsby's dingy boarding-house in which the landlord from hell, Rupert Rigsby prowled around his dilapidated...
Goodnight Sweetheart - The Complete Collection
This box set features all 6 series of the popular sitcom, Goodnight Sweetheart.
Meet Mr. Gary Sparrow, an ordinary bloke with an extraordinary life. Juggling his roles as 'devoted' husband, dependable friend and doting father; Gary also partakes in courageous acts of 1940s heroism. In the East End of London...
Fawlty Towers - The Complete Collection Remastered
This special edition marks the 30th Anniversary of one of the greatest situation comedies British television has ever seen. John Cleese provides audio commentaries on all 12 episodes.
I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan
Journalist, presenter, broadcaster, husband, father, vigorous all-rounder - Alan Partridge - a man with a fascinating past and an amazing future. Gregarious and popular, yet Alan's never happier than when relaxing in his own five-bedroom, south-built house with three acres of land and access to a private stream. But who...
The Smoking Room - The Complete First & Second Series
This set includes series one and two of the sitcom where a smoking room in a large company becomes the place to hide for a group of personnel misfits. It doesn't matter if you don't smoke, it's the place for a work break.
A great value set containing all 17...
The Benny Hill Annuals - 1980-89
Join comedy superstar Benny Hill in all of the classic shows he made for Thames during the 1980s.
Known throughout the world for his combination of high-speed farce, risqué jokes and gorgeous ladies, it is these shows that turned him into a global household name. This set features some of...
Absolute Power - Complete Series 1 & 2
"Spin is dead, long live PR."
Stephen Fry and John Bird star in this BBC satire set in the cynical world of public relations - where truth is an optional extra and no job is too grubby, so long as it pays well...
A re-working of Mark Tavener's acclaimed [z]Radio...
Rob Brydon - The Early Years
This brand new three-disc box set collects together some of Welsh comic Rob Brydon's best TV series:
Marion And Geoff Series 1
The Keith Barret Show Series 1
Human Remains
Maid Marian And Her Merry Men - Special Edition
Shun your Shakespeare, chuck away your Chaucer, destroy your DVDs of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle! You've got to make shelf space for the complete box set of Maid Marian And Her Merry Men. Never has so much fun and lunacy been crammed into one small cardboard container. If you tried to...
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Monty Python's Life Of Brian - The Immaculate Edition
This 2-disc special edition of Monty Python's Life Of Brian is packed with extra features:
Commentary with Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle and Terry Jones
Commentary with John Cleese and Michael Palin
Brand new hour-long documentary The Story Of Brian
An illustrated recording by the Pythons of their early screenplay in progress
5 deleted scenes:...
Father Ted - The Complete Boxset
First screened in 1995, the four-time BAFTA award-winning Father Ted tells the tale of three Irish priests and their housekeeper. Life is hard for Ted. Exiled to the remote Craggy Island (for reasons which never quite become clear but may have something to do with missing Church funds), he is...
The League Of Gentlemen - The Complete Collection
Royston Vasey - It may look like every bleak provincial town you've ever seen, but as for the locals...
Over thress series and a Christmas special we follow the strange, macabre and shocking stories of some of the residents. Edward and Tubbs, brother and sister shopkeepers whose only desire is...
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The Office - Special Edition Box Set
To celebrate the show's 10th anniversary, all 14 episodes have been brought together in this 4-disc box set.
Desmond's - Series 1
Desmond's follows the exploits of Peckham barber shop proprietor Desmond Ambrose, his wife Sheila, three children and an assortment of locals and regulars.
Includes a bonus documentary about the late Norman Beaton (Desmond): Beaton But Unbowed - A Tribute To An Artist.
Dad's Army - The Complete Collection
Captain Mainwaring, Sergeant Wilson, Corporal Jones and Privates Pike, Godfrey, Walker and Frazer are back in this complete series boxset - enjoy the endeavours and hilarious antics of the Walmington-On-Sea Home Guard!
This box set contains the complete series: One, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, The Christmas Specials...
An Audience With... - Ken Dodd
The Squire of Knotty Ash, Ken Dodd, at his best telling jokes and taking questions from celebrities.
Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life - 30th Anniversary Edition
It took god six days to create the heavens and the earth... and Monty Python 90 minutes to screw it up.
John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin have returned to explain The Meaning of Life (again - this time on Blu-ray). The Python...
Ronnie Barker - All I Ever Wrote: The Complete Works
Ronnie Barker has long been known as one of Britain's greatest comedy performers. But he was also responsible for writing much of the material he performed, often hiding the fact from the public by using a number of pen names. Showcasing the complete work of a true comic icon, [i]All...
Please Sir! - The Complete Series
Every episode from Series 1-4 of the 1970s LWT sitcom starring John Alderton as Bernard Hedges, put-upon teacher of the wayward class 5C at Fenn Street School.
Hedges's lot is unenviable - nosey, jobsworth caretaker Norman Potter (Deryck Guyler) frustrates his every move with rules and regulations, student Maureen Bullock...
The Likely Lads Collection
This 6 disc box set contains all 27 episodes of classic sitcom Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?, and the 8 surviving episodes of its predecessor, The Likely Lads, including one never previously released on DVD.
Entente Cordiale
Double Date
Older Women Are More Experienced
The Suitor
The Last Of The Big Spenders
Rocker
[i]Goodbye To...
Bless This House - The Complete Series
Every last episode of the smash-hit 1970s sitcom, starring the inimitable Sid James as Sid Abbott. Sid is an office supplies salesman, who is constantly trying to bridge the generation gap and deal with his two teenage children (nevermind the wife), whilst also trying to keep his own incompetence to...
The Young Ones - Complete Series One & Two
A mad, helter-skelter, rude, awesomely violent, unpredictable, swaggering, staggering, joyously infantile, exhilarating steamroller of a sitcom, The Young Ones provided the breakthrough for the new generation of aggressive and forthright 'alternative' comedians.
Join Rick, Vyv, Neil and Mike in their crazy and surreal comedy adventures in this 25th anniversary box...
Bottom - The Complete Series 1-3
All the episodes from Series One, Two and Three of the anarchic, violent sitcom, following the fortunes of Richie Richard (Rik Mayall) and Eddie Hitler (Adrian Edmondson), two grotesque losers living in a squalid flat in London and trying to make sense of their pointless existence.
Ever Decreasing Circles - The Complete Series
Written by the successful team of John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, Ever Decreasing Circles was first broadcast by the BBC in February 1984. Richard Briers, Penelope Wilton and Peter Egan star in this popular suburban-set comedy.
This box set features all four series of the hit comedy show.
50 Years Of Hancock's Half Hour
Many people consider Tony Hancock to be the finest comic actor of them all. November 2004 sees the 50th anniversary of his best-loved work, Hancock's Half Hour, which began as a radio series, penned by the writers Galton and Simpson.
Two years later, the first of 58 TV instalments had...
Hot Metal - The Complete Series
Robert Hardy takes a dual role in Andrew Marshall and David Renwick's (Whoops Apocalypse, 2point4 Children, One Foot In The Grave) razor-sharp satire depicting the ongoing shenanigans of the day-to-day running of a tabloid newspaper. Co-starring Richard Wilson (One Foot In The Grave) as former TV presenter Dicky Lipton -...
Psychoville - Series 1 + 2
Psychoville is the award-winning, dark, twisted comedy bought to us by Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, two of The League Of Gentlemen.
Over the two series we follow the fortunes or mis-fortunes of a bizarre bunch of characters including; Mr Lomax, a blind toy collector. Mr Jelly - the clown...
The Complete Black Books - Series 1, 2 & 3
This Black Books box set appears to be another re-release as the three series of the comedy have already been bought out in a box set before. If you don't yet own Graham Linehan's cult comedy it will be very much worth picking this up though.
Dylan Moran stars as...
Morecambe & Wise - The BBC Collection
Morecambe and Wise are the greatest comedy double act ever to grace our TV screens. The fabulous mixture of sketches, musical numbers, insights into their 'home' life and the plays 'wot Ernie wrote' brought them audiences in the millions.
On stage they were living legends with Eric's raised eyebrows, Des...
Bad Education - Series One, Two And Three
All episodes from the three series of the BBC Three comedy written by and starring Jack Whitehall as history teacher Alfie Wickers.
Arguably the worst teacher ever, Alfie is in charge of a class of misfit students at Abbey Grove School. The other faculty members include Headmaster Mr Fraser (Mathew...
Sunday Night At The London Palladium - Volume One & Two
Debuting on ITV's opening weekend in 1955, Sunday Night At The London Palladium swiftly established itself as one of the weekly televisual highlights for the British viewing public. Lasting fourteen years until 1969 (and enjoying a revival in the 1970s), the show gained average viewing figures of 14 million and...
Citizen Khan - Series 1 - 3
The complete first, second and third series of the BBC family sitcom following pompous, upwardly-striving Muslim businessman Mr Khan (Adil Ray) and his hard done-by family.
Living in Sparkhill, part of Birmingham's 'Balti Triangle', with his house-proud wife (Shobu Kapoor) and two rebellious daughters Shazia (Maya Sondhi) and Alia (Bhavna...
Gavin & Stacey - The Complete Collection
The complete Gavin & Stacey Series 1, Series 2, Series 3 and 2008 Christmas Special in one box set.
The Tony Hancock Collection
This collection contains all 37 surviving episodes, from 1956 to 1961, of the classic TV sitcom written by Galton and Simpson, featuring East Cheam's most famous resident, Tony Hancock, alongside supporting stars including Sid James and Kenneth Williams.
Sadly, 17 episodes from the series are missing believed wiped, but their...
The Complete Steptoe & Son
The classic 1960s British comedy series about a middle aged man and his elderly father who run an unsuccessful 'rag and bone' business. Harold (the son) wants to better himself but his father always seems to ruin things, sometimes accidentally and other times deliberately.
Citizen Smith - Series 1 - 4
All four celebrated series of John Sullivan's hit sitcom about a wannabe Marxist revolutionary living in south London, starring Robert Lindsay as Wolfie Smith.
The Armando Iannucci Collection
This box set draws together a hilarious selection of shows that all partly sprang from the mind of highly original comedian and satirist, Armando Iannucci.
The Day Today is the groundbreaking spoof news show that gave birth to Alan Partridge and also ushered Chris Morris onto our TV screens. Knowing...
The Frankie Howerd Collection
Frankie Howerd, one of the 20th Century's best-loved comics, left behind a wide variety of work. Arguably his most well-known and loved role was that of Lurcio in Up Pompeii!, available on DVD here for the first time.
Contents are as follows:
Up Pompeii! Pilot episode (1969)
Up Pompeii! Series 1 (1970)
Up...
Dinnerladies - The Complete Collection
Includes Series 1 and 2 of the television comedy Dinnerladies.
The programme follows a group of Northern factory canteen workers who manage to find a seam of humour in their humdrum jobs. There's hard-working and normal Bren (Victoria Wood), her love-interest Tony the canteen manager, and a clutch of peculiarly...
Hancock's Half Hour - Complete Series One & Two
Tony Hancock stars with Sid James and Kenneth Williams in the legendary BBC radio comedy series.
Created by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson in 1954, Hancock's Half Hour was the radio vehicle that made Tony Hancock a household name. Each week listeners would be admitted to the sometimes fantastical, sometimes...
The IT Crowd - The Ultimate Boxset
The Ultimate Boxset includes Versions 1.0-4.0 of the International Emmy Award-winning sitcom, as well as special finale episode The Internet Is Coming!.
They are IT: basement denizens, banished from the upper floors of Reynholm Industries by unhinged CEO Denholm Reynholm. But at least they have each other. Computer whiz Moss...
Horrible Histories - Series 1 - 6
The complete first to sixth series collection of CBBC hit Horrible Histories, the historically accurate sketch show.
Sykes - The Complete Series
Comedy genius Eric Sykes stars alongside Hattie Jacques, Richard Wattis and Deryck Guyler in the complete run of this classic comedy series.
Showcasing Eric's whimsical, slightly anarchic sense of humour, Sykes saw Eric basically playing himself just one step removed from normality! Sharing a house with his twin sister, Hat,...
Gimme Gimme Gimme - The Complete Collection
All 19 full-length episodes from the three series brought together in one box set.
Delusional Liam Gallagher-loving Linda La Hughes (Kathy Burke) and camp struggling actorrrr Tom Farrell (James Dreyfus) are oddball flatmates. They're both dim bulbs looking for a good man - well any man at all really; even...
Not Going Out - The Complete Series 1-7
For the first time you can view the complete Series 1-7 of Rose d'Or award-winning sitcom Not Going Out, starring BAFTA winning comedians Lee Mack and Tim Vine, alongside Sally Bretton, Miranda Hart, Megan Dodds, Katy Wix and Hugh Dennis.
SERIES ONE
Lee is unburdened by ambition or drive, drifting from...
Dawsons Weekly - The Complete Series
Les Dawson puts his innate comic ability to excellent use as the hapless protagonist in this series of half-hour comedy plays from 1975, written by the incomparable Ray Galton and Alan Simpson (Steptoe And Son, Hancock's Half Hour).
From a depressive who rapidly succeeds in reducing his health visitor to...
The Liver Birds - Complete Collection One & Two
From the ground-breaking comedic pen of Carla Lane (Solo/Bread/Butterflies) and Myra Taylor.
Polly James is Beryl and Nerys Hughes is Sandra in The Liver Birds. Beryl and Sandra are flatmates - room-mates really, given the size of their accommodation - in 1970s Liverpool. With a rivalry and friendship that bounces...
Jeeves & Wooster - The Complete Collection
Featuring the entire series of Jeeves & Wooster based on the characters created by P.G. Wodehouse. Jeeves & Wooster is one of the most delightful period comedy series on TV. Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie have captured the wit and sophistication of P.G Wodehouse and manage to portray the marvellous,...
'Allo 'Allo! - The Complete Collection
The Café René, at the heart of the picturesque town of Nouvion in occupied France, is a hot-bed of war-time intrigue. Look around and you'll see the Resistance, the Communists, the German army, the Gestapo, the Royal Air Force and one Officer Crabtree (sent from "British Ontelligence Headquitters"), all in...
The British Comedy Collection
This 12-disc box set unites 13 film adaptations of 1960s and 70s comedies.
The following titles are included:
Porridge (1979)
Rising Damp (1980)
Bless This House (1972)
Steptoe And Son (1972)
Steptoe And Son Ride Again (1973)
Ooh... You Are Awful! (1972)
Love Thy Neighbour (1973)
Till Death Us Do Part (1969)
The Likely Lads (1976)
[g=1450]Are You Being...
Birds Of A Feather - The Complete BBC Series
One of the nineties' most consistently successful and fondly remembered sitcoms, Birds Of A Feather stars Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson as Sharon and Tracey, North London-born sisters left to fend for themselves, both financially and emotionally, when their husbands are jailed for armed robbery.
While Darryl and Chris do...
Lee Evans - Complete Live Comedy Collection 1994 - 2011
This special limited edition box set includes the new Lee Evans Complete Live Comedy Collection 1994-2011 8-disc DVD box set with, for the first time ever, special augmented reality packaging so you can see Lee come to life in front of you.
The set also includes an exclusive tour book...
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Doctor On The Box
Eight series, 137 episodes, over 20 discs. This is the complete collection of ITV's sitcom spin-offs from the popular Doctor... series of books, also popular films from Rank: Doctor In The House, Doctor At Large, Doctor In Charge, Doctor At Sea and Doctor On The Go.
Only Fools And Horses - The Complete Collection
Starring David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst, the first ever episode of Only Fools And Horses was broadcast in September 1981. The story of market trader Derek Trotter and his brother Rodney (along with their family and friends - Grandad, Uncle Albert, Boycie, Trigger et al) would continue through seven series...
The Collected Arthur Haynes Show
Reigning supreme for almost a decade as ITV's biggest comedian, Arthur Haynes was one of the most influential and popular comics that television has ever seen. His shows remained firmly in the top ten until his untimely death in 1966 robbed the world of a comedy genius. Lack of repeats...
Are You Being Served? - The Complete Package
Are You Being Served? was broadcast for 13 years, from 1972 to 1985. It was set in the department store, Grace Brothers and was written mainly by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft.
The idea for the show came from Lloyd's brief period working at Simpson's of Piccadilly in the early...
The Army Game Collection
The Army Game was a sitcom giant of its time, and one of ITV's most popular shows. Created by Sid Colin, it pre-dated the more famous, Dad's Army, by a number of years.
A group of men serving out time as conscripts in the army are determined to dodge duty...
Outside Edge - The Complete Series
Features every episode from the television comedy series that follows the going-ons of a village cricket team, and the diverse individuals associated with it.
Green Wing - Series 1 - 2 Plus Special
All 17 episodes from Series 1 and 2 of the BAFTA winning hospital comedy starring Tamsin Greig.
New surgical registrar Dr Caroline Todd (Greig) starts her first day at work, and soon realises that her colleagues are more than a little eccentric, including sexually deviant surgeon Alan Statham (Mark Heap),...
On The Buses - The Complete Omnibus Edition
Without a doubt one of the most popular and endearing of ITV sitcoms, On The Buses ran for a tremendous seven series along with three feature films and a spin-off featuring Blakey on the Costa del Sol!
For the first time ever, both series and all of the films are...
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The Complete One Foot In The Grave
Who would have thought retirement could be so chaotic? Certainly not querulous Victor Meldrew, one of tree-lined suburbia's perennial complainers, or his long suffering wife Margaret. When he's forced to take early retirement, Victor suddenly has plenty of time on his hands to rage against the petty annoyances of life....
Man About The House - The Complete Series
Chrissy and Jo share a bedsit flat at 6 Myddleton Terrace in the Earls Court district of London. The morning after a farewell party for a third (female) flatmate, and in sore need of the extra financial contribution, they prepare to start looking for her replacement. Unbeknownst to them, asleep...
Les Dawson At ITV - The Specials
Les Dawson's self-deprecating and enduringly bleak humour, coupled with a world-weary delivery honed in the working men's clubs of northern England, made him one of Britain's best-loved comedians.
Sez Les firmly established Les Dawson's reputation, running for over seven years and bringing his dour, miserablist humour to a wider viewing...
Carry On - The Ultimate Collection
Collection of all 30 original films from the British comedy series. The titles are:
Carry On Sergeant (1958)
Carry On Nurse (1959)
Carry On Teacher (1959)
Carry On Constable (1960)
Carry On Regardless (1961)
Carry On Cruising (1962)
Carry On Cabby (1963)
Carry On Jack (1963)
Carry On Spying (1964)
Carry On Cleo (1964)
Carry On Cowboy (1965)
Carry On Screaming!...
Brush Strokes - Complete Series One To Six
The complete collection of hit BBC sitcom Brush Strokes, five (not six) series of which were broadcast during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
From John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, the creators of hit series Please Sir! and The Good Life, Karl Howman stars as Jacko: painter, decorator and all-round...
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Hailed by Time Magazine as "a movie" and the Chicago Reader as "full of stuff", Monty Python And The Holy Grail follows King Arthur and his band of less-than-merry men across the English countryside as they search for the elusive Grail. See flying cows, killer rabbits, vestal virgins and various...
Norman Wisdom Collection
This collection contains 12 feature films starring diminutive funny-man Norman Wisdom.
The twelve classic British comedy titles are: The Bulldog Breed, One Good Turn, The Early Bird, Press For Time, On The Beat, Man Of The Moment, A Stitch In Time, Just My Luck, The Square Peg, Follow A Star,...
The Armando Iannucci Shows
Modern life is rubbish. Nobody talks to each other, work is dull and we are made to feel inadequate by everyone and everything around us. Features the complete series of comedy guru Armando Iannucci's sketch shows.
Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Width
Sitcom starring John Bluthal and Joe Lynch as a Jewish and a Catholic tailor working together in London's East End.
Written by Vince Powell and Harry Driver (Bless This House, For The Love Of Ada, Love Thy Neighbour, Two In Clover), this set includes more than 11 and a half...
Sez Les - Volume One
Comedy sketch show from the 1960s and 1970s, starring Les Dawson.
This release contains the complete third and fourth series, broadcast in 1971 and 1972 respectively.
Series 1 & 2 do not exist in Yorkshire Television's archives, and are thought to have been wiped. (Although rumours of the first ever...
Still Game - The Complete Series 1-6 Plus Christmas & Hogmanay Specials
A comedy based around the lives of pensioner pals Jack Jarvis and Victor McDade, Still Game is set in and around a fictional part of Glasgow called Craiglang, and Jack and Victor's home in Osprey Heights. Focusing on the ironies and comedy of old age with humour, tenderness and pathos,...
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Mr Bean - Amazing Anniversary DVD Collection
Celebrate 25 years of Mr. Bean with this amazing anniversary boxset - including over 21 hours of Mr Bean mayhem and collectable Bendy Bean!
The set includes every episode from the original TV series, Volumes 1 - 8 of the animated spin-off as well as two Mr Bean movies.
In...
The Complete Ripping Yarns
Following the phenomenal success of Monty Python's Flying Circus, Michael Palin and Terry Jones created this unforgettable, BAFTA-winning series of comic plays for the BBC.
Gleefully parodying the conventions of Boys' Own-style adventure, Ripping Yarns sees Palin taking the protagonist's role in nine rip-roaring stories from stirring tales of sporting...