La Merveilleuse Anglaise
Dec 14, 1962Un fonctionnaire écossais doit apprendre à conduire une Bentley pour impressionner le père millionaire de sa petite amie.
Comedy
Stanley Baxter
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Le prisonnier récalcitrant
Apr 24, 1961Sir Ernest Pease ( James Robertson Justice ) est un scientifique brillant mais acerbe travail sur la recherche de l' avion pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale . Il a besoin de faire un voyage sur un bombardier d'observer les résultats de son travail. Au début , le plan est de voler dans un RAF avion déguisé en officier de la RAF, mais quand on lui dit de se raser sa barbe , il refuse et obtient d'aller comme Royal Navy officier, comme la barbe sont autorisées dans la RN.
War
Crooks Anonymous
Mar 31, 1962A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.
Comedy
Father Came Too!
Feb 11, 1964When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up themselves. But when the cottage proves to be more ramshackle than they thought, and the scale of the repairs needed far out of their budget, the newlyweds are forced into calling on Juliet's father after all. Before long he's employed incompetent builder Josh Wicks, and the situation goes from bad to worse.
Comedy
Joey Boy
Jan 01, 1965While posters urge austerity and vigilance in wartime Britain, 'Joey Boy' Thompson has never had it better. In a cellar beneath his East London fish shop, a gambling club thrives – and austerity provides a nice black-market sideline. But the dolce vita crumbles when police arrive in a lightning raid, and offer Joey and his fellow reprobates a stark choice: sign up for active service, or face another stint inside. Thus the lads find themselves heading off to Italy, determined to make the best of it...
Comedy
An Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Dec 26, 1980Dame Edna Everage takes questions from a celebrity audience about her life and career.
Comedy
Stanley Baxter's Christmas Hamper
Dec 27, 1985
Stanley Baxter's Picture Annual
Dec 29, 1986
Stanley Baxter in Person
Dec 31, 1998Documentary profile of Stanley Baxter featuring his first in-depth interview for forty years and extracts from his comedy series and specials. With contributions from Billy Connolly, Robbie Coltrane, Stephen Fry and Clive James.
Documentary
Ooh the Banter!
Dec 31, 2022Jack Docherty brings together a jam-packed cast of comedians, actors and famous faces for a riotous celebration of Scotland's most valuable export – its sense of humour. Scotland is a small nation with a big funny bone. It's known the world over for self-deprecation, quick-witted patter and deadpan asides. But what makes it so funny? To find out the answer, this programme delves deep into the BBC Scotland archives to find a century’s worth of classic characters, catchphrases and comedy clips.
Comedy
Le voleur et le cordonnier
Sep 23, 1993L'amitié d'un voleur débrouillard et d'un cordonnier désargenté...
Animation
Geordie
Sep 02, 1955Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength. The film was released as "Wee Geordie" in the USA.
Comedy
Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas
Nov 30, 1977Bing Crosby and his family spend Christmas at the estate of a distant relative in England.
Music
Stanley Baxter's Picture Annual
Dec 29, 1986The Stanley Baxter Series
Nov 21, 1981On The Bright Side
Sep 06, 1960The Stanley Baxter Picture Show
Dec 21, 1973Mr. Majeika
Jan 01, 1970The Stanley Baxter Show
Feb 19, 1971Comedy
Rab C. Nesbitt
Nov 09, 2011BBC comedy series about Rab C. Nesbitt, a drunken, string vested layabout who lives with his long suffering wife Mary and his two sons in the working class area of Govan in Glasgow. When he's not getting drunk with his pals that include the devious, womanizing Jamesie Cotter. He's offering his philosophical outlook on life to whoever will listen.
Comedy
An Audience with...
Jun 01, 2013An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian, performs for an invited audience of celebrity guests, interspersed with questions from the audience, in a light hearted revue/tribute style.
Talk
The Goodies
Feb 13, 1982A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.
Comedy
Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter
Dec 01, 2019A nostaligic look at one of history's great comedians
Documentary
The Stanley Baxter Moving Picture Show
Sep 07, 1974The sketches are Nationwide with jokes across the UK and Thumpalong with Reg Varnish. We then have an episode of Upstage Downstage. There is a sketch set in a canteen of California during WW2 which ends with an attempt to undermine American morale using well-known American entertainers. There is a brief discussion about bias in the news followed by a news report. Maurice Chevalier is in heaven and sings about how that he is glad he is not alive anymore. The show concludes with 2001 - A Royal Wedding Odyssey where Prince Eric marries a singer. There is a mass phone-in where you are able to ask questions of the participants.
