Peter Sellers. Copyright: BBC
Talking Pictures: Great British Comedies
- TV documentary
- BBC Two
- 2015
- 1 episode
Sylvia Syms looks back at great British comedy film stars. Also features George Formby, Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, James Robertson Justice, Gerald Thomas and more.
Peter Sellers. Copyright: BBC
Key details
- Genre
- Documentary
- Broadcast
- 2015
- Channels
- BBC Two
- Episodes
- 1
- Features
- Sylvia Syms, George Formby, Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, James Robertson Justice, Gerald Thomas, Sid James, Joan Sims and more
- Producers
- Simon Goretzki and Simon Catt
- Companies
Sylvia Syms looks back on the great British comedy stars who over the years have had cinema audiences rolling in the aisles with laughter.
Featuring rarely-seen interviews from the BBC's archives, the programme starts with the great George Formby and the early days of British cinema, and works its way forwards in time, exploring, amongst others, the classic Ealing comedies, the much-loved Doctor series, the saucy postcard humour of the Carry On films, Peter Sellers and the Pink Panther series, and the ground-breaking movies of Monty Python.
This is a single episode in a longer series of programmes looking at different aspects of films.
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Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Saturday 31st October 2015 at 2pm on BBC Two
- Episode length
- 35 minutes
- Most recent repeats
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- Tuesday 20th July 2021 at 2:15pm on BBC2
- Tuesday 8th December 2020 at 2:30pm on BBC2
- Tuesday 7th April 2020 at 2:45pm on BBC2