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Comedy Playhouse

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Comedy Parade

Comedy Parade is an British radio anthology series that was first broadcast non-consecutively from 1964 to 1986. The series aired unrelated comedy pilot episodes each week, with the intention of developing those pilot episodes into full series.

Fifty-one episodes were broadcast during the series run; twelve of which became series. These included: Now Listen; Spare a Copper; There's One Born Every Minute; the 1971 version of Just the Job; Radio Tarbuck; Our Les; Parsley Sidings; I'm Ken, He's Bill; The Motorway Men; Albert and Me; You Start, I'll Join In; and The Phenomenon Squad.

Episodes

Series 1 (1964)

This series of Comedy Parade aired on the BBC Light Programme at 8:00 pm on Thursday.

#	Title	Written by	Produced by	First broadcast
1	Now Listen	Charles Hart and Peter Bishop	Bill Worsley	27 August 1964
2	Askey Rides Again	Les Lilley and Chic Jacob	Edward Taylor	3 September 1964
3	It Takes All Sorts	Philip Evans	John Simmonds	10 September 1964
4	The Kerbstone Twist Show	Michael Sharland	Trafford Whitelock	17 September 1964
5	Wilkie	Marty Feldman	John Browell	24 September 1964
6	Going Places	James Casey and Frank Roscoe	James Casey	1 October 1964
7	Mostly Murdoch	Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke	Edward Taylor	8 October 1964
8	Down with Women	Alastair Foot	John Browell	15 October 1964
9	Nobody But Doddy	Eddie Braben and Ken Dodd	Bill Worsley	22 October 1964
10	The Spy's the Limit, or, Whatever Happened to Agent 0091?	Dick Sharples	Trafford Whitelock	29 October 1964
11	The Andy Stewart Show	Kenneth Little	Eddie Fraser	5 November 1964
12	Spare a Copper	John Esmonde and Bob Larbey	Edward Taylor	12 November 1964
13	The Fourteen Stone Five Show	Mike Sharland	Edward Taylor	19 November 1964
14	Admiral at Anchor	Kenneth Hayles	Edward Taylor	26 November 1964
15	A State of Chaos	Hugh Woodhouse and Ken Hoare	Charles Maxwell	3 December 1964
16	One Night of Jim	George Evans and Derek Collyer	Charles Maxwell	10 December 1964
17	The Don Arrol Programme	Denis Goodwin	John Browell	17 December 1964
18	Comedy Parade presents Joyce Grenfell	N/A	Bill Worsley	24 December 1964

Series 2 (1965)

This series of Comedy Parade aired on the BBC Light Programme at 8:00 pm on Thursday.

#	Title	Written by	Produced by	First broadcast
1	How About That	Bryan Blackburn	Edward Taylor	14 October 1965
2	Just the Job	Artie Jackson	Edward Taylor	21 October 1965
3	There's One Born Every Minute	Dick Sharples	Trafford Whitelock	28 October 1965
4	Mike to Mike	Michael Howard	Bill Worsley	4 November 1965
5	Brotherly Loves	Godfrey Harrison	David O’Clee	11 November 1965
6	Jiminy Cricket	Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke, Peter Vincent and David McKellar, Jim Dale, Gordon Clyde	Richard Willcox	18 November 1965
7	Now for Nixon	Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke	John Simmonds	25 November 1965
8	Marriage Afloat	John Esmonde and Bob Larbey	Bill Gates	2 December 1965
9	Hudd – But Not Seen	Eric Davidson	John Fawcett Wilson	9 December 1965

Series 3 (1971)

This series of Comedy Parade aired on BBC Radio 2 at 2:30 pm on Sunday.

#	Title	Written by	Produced by	First broadcast
1	Second Time Around	Malcolm Hulke and Ray Mansell	Trafford Whitelock	3 January 1971
2	The Yarwood News	Mike Craig and Lawrie Kinsley	Geoff Lawrence and James Casey	10 January 1971
3	Just the Job	Colin Mares	Edward Taylor	17 January 1971
4	A Right Load of Junkin	Mike Craig and Lawrie Kinsley	James Casey	24 January 1971
5	For Love of a Lady	Philip Learoyd	John Cassels	31 January 1971
6	Radio Tarbuck	Mike Craig, Lawrie Kinsley and Ron McDonnell	James Casey	7 February 1971
7	Like My Neighbour	John Lawson	Eddie Fraser	14 February 1971
8	Our Les	James Casey	James Casey	21 February 1971
9	Parsley Sidings	Jim Eldridge	Edward Taylor	28 February 1971
10	I'm Ken, He's Bill	Richard Matthews and John Davis	Edward Taylor	7 March 1971
11	Hush Hush, Here Comes the Bolshie Man	Peter Spence	David Hatch	14 March 1971
12	The Motorway Men	Peter Child and Peter Matthews	Alastair Scott Johnston	21 March 1971
13	Try Anything Once	Chris Allen	Edward Taylor	28 March 1971

Series 4 (1977)

This series of Comedy Parade aired on BBC Radio 2 at 7:30 pm on Wednesday.

#	Title	Written by	Produced by	First broadcast
1	Albert and Me	Jim Eldridge	John Fawcett Wilson	5 January 1977
2	This Man Corbett	Chris Allen	John Fawcett Wilson	12 January 1977
3	The Menacing Custard	Tony Hart	Martin Fisher	19 January 1977
4	Beetles and Buckman's Open Window	Rob Buckman and Christopher Beetles	Bob Oliver Rogers	26 January 1977
5	God Bless the Price of Whales	Andrew Palmer	John Lloyd	2 February 1977
6	Settle Down Now	James Casey	James Casey	9 February 1977

Series 5 (1986)

This series of Comedy Parade aired on BBC Radio 4 at 11:30 pm on Saturday. For this series, episodes were aired as part of "the five best entries from last year's Radio Times comedy writing competition" and the series was known as Radio Times Comedy Parade [link to the first episode of this series of Comedy Parade].

#	Title	Written by	Produced by	First broadcast
1	You Start, I'll Join In	David Bond and Paul Hawksbee	Pete Atkin	18 October 1986
2	The Phenomenon Squad	Michael Snelgrove	Paul Mayhew-Archer	25 October 1986
3	Circus Circus	Bill Brennan	Mark Robson	1 November 1986
4	The Collapse of the Romanov Autocracy	Phil Steer	Pete Atkin	8 November 1986
5	Brian the Wise	Ewart Hutton	John Fawcett Wilson	15 November 1986

See also

• Comedy Playhouse, a British television anthology series
• The Comedy Game, an Australian television anthology series

2022 in Australian television

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It Sticks Out Half a Mile

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Producer Martin Fisher recalled that he was only called in to produce the series because the original pilot producer, Jonathan James-Moore, had fallen ill. [cite=Then Cpt Main. died.] Bobby Jay, the Head of Light Entertainment in Radio, requested that Fisher take over producing the series. Fisher recalled that the series "was very pleasant, all the cast were very cooperative and helpful, and it went very well".

In a preview article for the Radio Times by Robert Ottaway, published a day before transmission of the first episode, Ian Lavender reflected on the legacy of Dad's Army: "I played with that team for 10 years. The atmosphere… was so great between us." He went on to add that he believed that the atmosphere "carries on, now we are supposed to be three years older" in It Sticks Out Half a Mile. He also spoke about the advantages of radio: "I don’t need so much Brylcreem and eyeshadow to disguise myself, my voice is more or less the same."

A second Radio Times article by David Gillard, titled "Nostalgia at the End of the Pier" and published three days before the repeat broadcast of the first episode, on 14 July 1984, featured an interview with Bill Pertwee, who stated that It Sticks Out Half a Mile was "the end of the road for Dad's Army". Pertwee believed that this was the final time members of the Dad's Army cast would work together. He recalled: "The series had originally been mainly written around Arthur Lowe and John, and when Arthur died it had to be re-jigged. John had not been well, though he was feeling better when we recorded the series, but I think we all realised that we'd had a great run – the programmes started on TV in 1968 – and we were coming to the end of it."