The Gold Watch Club

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC One
  • 1968
  • 1 pilot

A Comedy Playhouse presentation about Edward Wilkins, whose vision of retirement turns out to be rather different than the reality. Stars Dennis Price, Avice Landone, Peter Bayliss, Derek Waring, Bob Todd and more.

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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.

Marriage Lines. Image shows from L to R: George Starling (Richard Briers), Kate Starling (Prunella Scales). Copyright: BBC
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Not In Front Of The Children. Jennifer Corner (Wendy Craig). Copyright: BBC
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P.G. Wodehouse's The World Of Wooster. Image shows from L to R: Bertie Wooster (Ian Carmichael), Jeeves (Dennis Price). Copyright: BBC
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The chronicles of the naïve, upper-crust Bertie Wooster as witnessed by his worldly-wise man-servant, Jeeves.

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