Frankie Howerd

Film '72

The BBC's flagship cinema review TV program featuring reviews of new releases, news items and interviews. The t...

Going Live!

Going Live! was a Saturday morning magazine show, broadcast on BBC1 between 1987 and 1993. It was presented by...

The World of Hammer

The World of Hammer is a thirteen-part British documentary series created and written by Robert and Ashley Sida...

Up Pompeii!

Up Pompeii! is a British television comedy series broadcast between 1969 and 1970, starring Frankie Howerd. The...

Cilla

A mostly live weekly entertainment show starring Cilla Black and her special guests.

The Ladykillers

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the...

Carry On Doctor

Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over matter, slips...

The Bruce Forsyth Show

Beginning in 1959 as Bruce's Show, mixing music, dancing and comedy in the time honoured tradition, this series...

Whoops Baghdad

Whoops Baghdad is a BBC television comedy programme first broadcast from 25 January to 1 March 1973. The series...

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-time machina...

The Mouse on the Moon

Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To ge...

The Word

The Word was a 1990s Channel 4 television programme in the United Kingdom.

Up Pompeii

A funny thing happens to Lurcio on the way to the rent-a-vestal-virgin market stall. A mysterious scroll falls...

The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery

The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover £2.5 million hidden in their school.

That's Carry On!

Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Williams and Ba...

The Plank

Classic short British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is do...

A Touch of the Casanovas

A pilot for a Frankie Howerd sitcom that was eventually never made. A Touch of the Casanovas follows the same f...

An Alligator Named Daisy

Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abando...

Summertime Special

A BBC light entertainment holiday series, following on from the success of their Seaside Special shows, featuri...

Up the Chastity Belt

A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells...

Carry On Up the Jungle

The Carry On team send up the Tarzan tradition in great style. Lady Evelyn Bagley mounts an expedition to find...

The Runaway Bus

When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven...

What's a Carry On?

Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips and out-take...

Then Churchill Said to Me

Sitcom set in the government's secret underground headquarters during the Second World War.

Cucumber Castle

On his death bed, The King orders his kingdom divided into two halves, the Kingdom of Jelly and the Kingdom of...

Jumping for Joy

At the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound, who's not too healt...

The Fast Lady

A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.

The Cool Mikado

In this musical, the Gilbert and Sullivan classic is updated and set in post-war Japan. This time, the trouble...

Desert Island Discs

Arena celebrates Roy Plomley's Desert Island Discs with the help of many celebrity castaways, including Frankie...

A Touch of the Sun

A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which i...

The House in Nightmare Park

Comedy legend Frankie Howerd stars as the victim of sinister shenanigans in this hilarious spoof of British hor...

Further Up Pompeii

A BBC TV comedy movie about the people living in Pompeii prior to its destruction by volcano, focusing on the l...

An Evening With Francis Howerd

Up the Front

In Frankie Howerd's third Up... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er coward. He's ev...

Watch It, Sailor!

Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyon...

Just So Stories

A short series of animated shows for kids depicting the "Just So" stories by Rudyard Kipling.