Comedy Playhouse (Season 5)

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.

  • Poster for The Bishop Rides Again

    The Bishop Rides Again (Episode 1)

    Air date: 1966-05-17

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: The misadventures of a group of clergymen in the cloisters of a cathedral.

  • Poster for Beggar My Neighbour

    Beggar My Neighbour (Episode 2)

    Air date: 1966-05-24

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Two married sisters living next door to one another are locked in a continuous battle of one-upmanship.

  • Poster for A Little Learning

    A Little Learning (Episode 3)

    Air date: 1966-05-31

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: The Dean of co-educational Sheridan College at the University of Wessex is shocked by the appointment of a new female bursar whom he was once close to.

  • Poster for Judgement Day For Elijah Jones

    Judgement Day For Elijah Jones (Episode 4)

    Writer: Marty Feldman

    Air date: 1966-06-07

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Elijah Jones believes the world is about to end and plans to build himself an Ark and stock it with stolen animals.

  • Poster for Room At The Bottom

    Room At The Bottom (Episode 5)

    Air date: 1966-06-14

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: The misadventures of the Maintenance Men at Saracens Manufacturing.

  • Poster for The End Of The Tunnel

    The End Of The Tunnel (Episode 6)

    Air date: 1966-06-21

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: A businessman has to start again when his wife leaves him.

  • Poster for Seven Year Hitch

    Seven Year Hitch (Episode 7)

    Air date: 1966-06-28

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Complications arise in the lives of Ern and Is Conway, proprietors of an unsuccessful dancing school, when Ern forgets their seventh wdding anniversary.

  • Poster for The Mallard Imaginaire

    The Mallard Imaginaire (Episode 8)

    Air date: 1966-07-05

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Misadventures of an inept MP.

  • Poster for The Reluctant Romeo

    The Reluctant Romeo (Episode 9)

    Writer: Derek Collyer

    Air date: 1966-08-02

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Advertising executive Thomas Jones finds himself irresistible to women, but would prefer to concentrate on his job and his fiancée Sally.

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