Impasse

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC One
  • 1963
  • 1 episode

Famous Galton & Simpson Comedy Playhouse episode starring Bernard Cribbins and Leslie Phillips as drivers refusing to give way on a single-track road. Also features Harry Locke, Duncan MaCrae, Georgina Cookson, Yootha Joyce and Campbell Singer

See also

Comedy Playhouse

Comedy Playhouse

The first and most celebrated of all pilot and comedy trial seasons, Comedy Playhouse was originally devised to find new programmes for Ray Galton and Alan Simpson following the end of Hancock's Half Hour.

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins. Stripping Girl (Felicity Devonshire). Copyright: Tigon British Film Productions
 Film

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

A collection of short films about the Seven Deadly Sins. Writers include Galton and Simpson, Spike Milligan, Barry Cryer and Graham Chapman.

Galton & Simpson's Half Hour. Copyright: Red Door
 Radio

Galton & Simpson's Half Hour

A series of half-hour comedies from the writing partnership of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

Paul Merton In Galton & Simpson's.... Paul (Paul Merton)
 TV

Paul Merton In Galton & Simpson's...

Series starring Paul Merton in which the comic re-performs a number of original Galton & Simpson scripts, including some of Tony Hancock.

Very Nearly An Armful - The Galton & Simpson Story. Image shows from L to R: Alan Simpson, Ray Galton
 Radio

Very Nearly An Armful - The Galton & Simpson Story

Stephen Merchant celebrates the writing partnership of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson in this Radio 2 documentary.

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