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Comedy Playhouse: Where It All BeganA look into the Comedy Playhouse archive

Some of the programme's finest moments featuring Tony Hancock, Leslie Phillips and more

  • Harry H Corbett as Harold Steptoe in The Offer, the very first Galton & Simpson script written for the Comedy Playhouse
  • Tony Hancock with scriptwriters Alan Simpson and Ray Galton
  • Polly James and Pauline Collins as Beryl and Dawn in The Liver Birds
  • Bernard Cribbins in Impasse, broadcast in March 1963
  • Leslie Phillips as Henry Newhouse
  • Warren Mitchell as Alf Garnett and Dandy Nichols as Else Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part
  • Harry H Corbett as Harold and Wilfrid Brambell as Albert Steptoe in the first episode 'A Death In The Family'
  • The cast of It's Awfully Bad For Your Eyes, Darling in November 1971
  • Writers Galton and Simpson standing outside BBC Television Centre in 1970
  • June Whitfield and Terry Scott in the first series of Terry and June
  • The TC1 Mixing Desk at BBC Television Centre in 1974
  • Johnny Speight - writer of Till Dead Us Do Part at his home in 1967
  • BBC Television Centre in the 60s

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