Johnny Speight (Creator)
Little is known about Johnny Speight, a figure with a modest footprint in Creator. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Lost Sitcoms
British classic Lost Sitcoms, recreated by the BBC, from shows: Hancock’s Half Hour, Steptoe And Son and Till Death Us Do Part - each with a brand new stellar cast
Release Date: 2016-09-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
An Audience with Alf Garnett
In front of a celebrity audience Johnny Speight's bigoted comic creation Alf Garnett (played by Warren Mitchell) vents his spleen on all manner of sensitive subjects. He makes political correctness take a back seat as he gives his opinions on race relations, football, life, the government, sex, drugs and much more.
Release Date: 1997-04-05
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Oooh Er Missus! The Frankie Howerd Story
Documentary about the life of Frankie Howerd, with help from friends and colleagues and including highlights from his TV and film career.
Release Date: 1990-06-01
Character: Self
In Sickness and in Health
Sequel to 'Till Death Us Do Part' with the bad tempered Alf Garnett, who has not mellowed with the years and is as bigoted as ever.
Release Date: 1985-09-01
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 16
Till Death...
Alf and Elsie Garnett retire to Eastbourne, so Rita and Michael Jr. become the main characters who try to keep Alf out of trouble.
Release Date: 1981-05-17
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 3
Archie Bunker's Place
Archie Bunker's Place is an American sitcom originally broadcast on the CBS network, conceived in 1979 as a spin-off and continuation of All in the Family. While not as popular as its predecessor, the show maintained a large enough audience to last for four seasons, until its cancellation in 1983. In its first season, the show performed so well that it knocked Mork & Mindy out of its new Sunday night time slot.
Release Date: 1979-09-23
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 20
Spooner's Patch
Comedy set in a small Police Station filled with self serving corrupt coppers!
Release Date: 1979-07-09
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 18
If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice.
Release Date: 1974-03-03
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
The Alf Garnett Saga
Alf and his family have been moved from their East End home into a high-rise council estate. Alf is not only having trouble coping with his new 'home', but also with the long commute to work, the long walk to the corner pub, his long-suffering wife, rebellious daughter and her philandering, constantly unemployed husband.
Release Date: 1972-08-30
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 5
All in the Family
Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.
Release Date: 1971-01-12
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 159
Nechcete jet do Bembrly?
Release Date: 1970-05-14
Department: Writing
Job: Original Story
Vote Count: 1
Rhubarb
A Police Inspector and a vicar play a round of golf. The Inspector has a Constable help him to cheat, while the vicar has other ideas...
Release Date: 1970-04-03
Character: Gents Rhubarb
Vote Count: 4
Curry and Chips
Curry and Chips is a British sitcom broadcast in 1969 which was produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network. Set on a factory floor of 'Lillicrap Ltd', it starred a blacked up Spike Milligan as an Asian immigrant who went by the name of Kevin O'Grady. It also featured Eric Sykes as the foreman, Norman Rossington as the shop steward, and other regulars were Kenny Lynch, and Sam Kydd. The series was written by Till Death Us Do Part writer Johnny Speight, but based on idea by Milligan. It was the first LWT sitcom to be made in colour, and all episodes still exist.
Release Date: 1969-11-21
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 7
Double Bill
In the first part, The Compartment, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached. In part two, Playmates, he breaks into a lonely house and proceeds to terrorise a spinster woman who lives there.
Release Date: 1969-09-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
One Pair of Eyes - No, But Seriously
Marty Feldman, for many years a successful comedy writer before turning to performing, explores humour through the people who create it, comparing their traditions, motivations and anxieties with his own. Among the people Marty talks to are Peter Sellers, Eric Morecambe, Peter Brough and Archie Andrews, Dudley Moore and Barry Took.
Release Date: 1969-06-07
Till Death Us Do Part
The film version of 'Till Death Do Us Part' tells the story of Alf Garnett, his wife Else, and their newborn daughter Rita, living through the London Blitz and beyond.
Release Date: 1969-01-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 13
If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice.
Release Date: 1968-08-03
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
The Plank
A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.
Release Date: 1967-05-18
Character: Pipe Smoker in Bus Queue
Vote Count: 28
Privilege
Britain's biggest pop singer, Steven Shorter, receives unwavering adulation and possesses total control over his rabid fans, which includes nearly the entire population. Yet Shorter is not an autonomous performer -- he is little more than a puppet for the government, promoting whatever agenda they see fit. When a beautiful artist, Vanessa Ritchie, is commissioned to paint his portrait, she pushes Shorter to question his obedience to his manipulative handlers.
Release Date: 1967-02-28
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 26
Till Death Us Do Part
Following the chronicles of the East End working-class Garnett family, headed by patriarch Alf Garnett, a reactionary working-class man who holds racist and anti-socialist views.
Release Date: 1966-06-06
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 24
French Dressing
A deck-chair attendant at a British resort promotes a film festival featuring a French sexpot.
Release Date: 1964-04-10
Department: Writing
Job: Dialogue
Vote Count: 12
That Was The Week That Was
That Was the Week That Was, informally TWTWTW or TW3, is a satirical television comedy programme on BBC Television in 1962 and 1963. It was devised, produced and directed by Ned Sherrin and presented by David Frost. An American version by the same name aired on NBC from 1964 to 1965, also featuring Frost. The programme is considered a significant element of the satire boom in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s. It broke ground in comedy through lampooning the establishment and political figures. Its broadcast coincided with coverage of the politically charged Profumo affair and John Profumo, the politician at the centre of the affair, became a target for derision. TW3 was first broadcast on Saturday 24 November 1962.
Release Date: 1962-11-24
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
Comedy Playhouse
Comedy Playhouse is a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 120 episodes from 1961 to 1975. Many episodes later graduated to their own series, including Steptoe and Son, Till Death Us Do Part, All Gas and Gaiters, The Liver Birds, Are You Being Served? and Last of the Summer Wine, which is the world's longest running sitcom, having run from January 1973 to August 2010.
Release Date: 1961-12-15
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 2
Mr. Topaze
Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac, a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy, a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise questions him and tells Topaze that what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.
Release Date: 1961-04-04
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 6
For Richer...For Poorer
For Richer...For Poorer was a 1975 BBC television pilot starring Harry H Corbett as Bert, a union shop-steward who worships Stalin and has dreams of becoming a major politician. Part of a Comedy Playhouse season, this one-off was broadcast on BBC1, on Wednesday 25 June 1975. The show had many overlaps with Til Death Us Do Part. It had the same writer and producer. Both shows took their titles from the traditional wedding vows, and Bert was seen as the left-wing equivalent of Alf Garnett. The show is missing from the television archives.
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Justice for All
Justice For All is an American television pilot shot in 1968 for the ABC network. This was Norman Lear's first attempt at what would eventually become All in the Family. The script, written by Lear, was based on a British show, Till Death Us Do Part. The lead character of Archie Justice was a white, working class reactionary with racist and anti-social views. Archie's wife, Edith was a kind, naive woman devoted to her husband. They had a daughter, Gloria, who was married to Richard, a young, Irish-American liberal hippie whom Archie despised. Richard had a black friend, Lionel. By the time All in the Family made it to air, a number of changes had been made. The Justice family's last name had been changed to "Bunker." The "Richard" character was replaced by Michael "Meathead" Stivic, a Polish-American liberal hippie with long hair. The Gloria character in the pilot more closely resembled her parents' appearance with her short, curly, red hair, as opposed to the long blonde hair worn by Sally Struthers, who portrayed Gloria in the series. This pilot never aired as ABC did not pick up Justice For All, but in 1969 Norman Lear shot another pilot called Those Were The Days with two different actors playing Gloria and Richard.
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Those Were the Days
"Those Were the Days" is the second of three pilots shot by creator Norman Lear in what would eventually become All in the Family. The first pilot, "Justice For All", was rejected by ABC in 1968, so Norman Lear changed the script slightly from the original pilot as well as some of the actors. Chip Oliver was brought in to play Archie's son-in-law, whose name was changed from Richard to Dickie. Candice Azzara now played Gloria in the second pilot. The actor who played Lionel remained the same. This pilot shot in 1969 was again rejected by ABC and was never shown on television until TV Land in 1998 as part of an All in the Family marathon.
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 1