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  1. Alan Simpson

    Andrew Martin

    BBC Genome

    Alan Simpson

    The career of comedy writer Alan Simpson, who has died aged 87.

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  2. The Sunday Post: You Have Been Watching... Are You Being Served?

    Andrew Martin

    BBC Genome

    The Sunday Post: You Have Been Watching... Are You Being Served?

    The roots of Are You Being Served? examined as the BBC celebrates 60 years of the television sitcom

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  3. Carla's decades of comedy

    Aaron Brown

    Guest blogger

    Carla's decades of comedy

    As sitcom Bread celebrates its 30th birthday, we take a look at the pedigree of comic writer Carla Lane.

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  4. The Sunday Post: Lost laughs

    Aaron Brown

    Guest blogger

    The Sunday Post: Lost laughs

    Guest blogger Aaron Brown digs into the archives and reminds us of some of the sitcoms that failed to turn into surefire hits.

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  5. The Sunday Post: Switching Sides

    Andrew Martin

    BBC Genome

    The Sunday Post: Switching Sides

    A glance at how some TV shows have moved from the BBC - and also migrated in the other direction through the decades.

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  6. Your 'forgotten' 1990s sitcoms

    Your 'forgotten' 1990s sitcoms

    A look at short-lived 1990s comedies as suggested by Genome users on social media.

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  7. 'Lost' sitcoms of the 90s

    Michael Osborn

    'Lost' sitcoms of the 90s

    A look at the BBC comedies of the 1990s that failed to make a lasting impact and now languish in the listings.

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