Comedy Playhouse
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Comedy Playhouse was an occasional BBC television anthology series of the 1960s and early 1970s, consisting of one-off comedic plays with the potential to be turned into regular sitcoms.
Each individual show in the series of six programmes would have different writers and star different performers.
The most successful series to originate out of Comedy Playhouse were Steptoe and Son (which began as a play called The Offer), Are You Being Served?, All Gas and Gaiters, The Liver Birds and Till Death Us Do Part. One particular entry which appeared in 1973, The Last of the Summer Wine, was commissioned by the BBC for a series and, as of 2005, is still running, making it the longest running sitcom in the world.
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