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.
Comedy Playhouse (Season 8)
The Liver Birds (Episode 1)
Air date: 1969-04-14
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Two young Liverpudlian girls share a flat.
The Valley Express (Episode 2)
Writer: John Lloyd
Air date: 1969-04-21
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A pair of bored hacks working on a Welsh newspaper decide to invent stories and sell them on to Fleet Street.
Tooth And Claw (Episode 3)
Writer: Marty Feldman
Air date: 1969-04-28
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Misadventures of a pair of Jewish multimillionaires.
As Good Cooks Go (Episode 4)
Air date: 1969-05-05
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: The exploits of a jobbing cook.
The Loves Of Larch Hill (Episode 5)
Air date: 1969-05-12
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Episodes in the life of the decidedly strange Love family.
The Making Of Peregrine (Episode 6)
Writer: Marty Feldman
Air date: 1969-05-19
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Stanley Mold is determined to make a man out of his son Peregrine.
Up Pompeii (Episode 7)
Air date: 1969-05-26
