Comedy ConnectionsTemporada 1

Series looking at the history of favourite comedy shows.

Where to Watch Comedy Connections • Temporada 1

Porridge
E1
PorridgeWriters Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, director-producer Sydney Lotterby and members of the cast give the inside story of Porridge.
The Good Life
E2
The Good Life
Are You Being Served
E3
Are You Being ServedWould Are You Being Served? have been a global success if its creators, David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd, had done as they were told? Interviews with the Croft and Lloyd, Mollie Sugden, Frank Thornton, John Inman, Wendy Richard and other members of the cast tell the extraordinary story of how Joanna Lumley and a job at Simpson's of Piccadilly inspired a programme which is still much-loved all around the world. And in unravelling the tangled tale of Grace Brothers, we travel through a whole era of David Croft-inspired comedy, from Hugh and I and Dad's Army in the sixties to 'Allo 'Allo! and Oh, Doctor Beeching! in the nineties.
Men Behaving Badly
E4
Men Behaving BadlySimon Nye's debut as a sitcom writer became a huge hit, but without its original star and on BBC1. Creators and cast reflect on this epoch-defining success story.
Butterflies
E5
Butterflies
Only Fools and Horses
E6
Only Fools and HorsesNot only did the hugely successful series come within a whisker of not being made, but the BBC wanted to pull the show after initially poor ratings. Last in the series.