Comedy Playhouse

Season 5 (9 Episodes)

18 Seasons 1966 NR 30m 7.3

Anthology series of one-off, unrelated situation comedies.

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Season 5 Episodes:

Episode 1 The Bishop Rides Again

1. The Bishop Rides Again

Aired: May 17, 1966

Pilot for BBC's "All Gas And Gaiters" series.

Episode 2 Beggar My Neighbour

2. Beggar My Neighbour

Aired: May 24, 1966

Pilot for BBC series "Beggar My Neighbour"

Episode 3 A Little Learning

3. A Little Learning

Aired: May 31, 1966

The Dean of co-educational Sheridan College at the University of Wessex is sh...

Episode 4 Judgement Day for Elijah Jones

4. Judgement Day for Elijah Jones

Aired: Jun 7, 1966

Elijah Jones believes the world is about to end and plans to build himself an...

Episode 5 Room at the Bottom

5. Room at the Bottom

Aired: Jun 14, 1966

Pilot for BBC series Room at the Bottom (1966).

Episode 6 The End of the Tunnel

6. The End of the Tunnel

Aired: Jun 21, 1966

A businessman has to start again when his wife leaves him.

Episode 7 Seven Year Hitch

7. Seven Year Hitch

Aired: Jun 28, 1966

Complications arise in the lives of Ern and Is Conway, proprietors of an unsu...

Episode 8 The Mallard Imaginaire

8. The Mallard Imaginaire

Aired: Jul 5, 1966

Pilot for BBC's "The Whitehall Worrier" series.

Episode 9 The Reluctant Romeo

9. The Reluctant Romeo

Aired: Aug 2, 1966

Pilot for BBC's "The Reluctant Romeo" series.

Main Cast

Jack Hulbert The Dean

Harry H. Corbett Ernest 'Ern' Conway

Clive Dunn Elijah Jones

Kenneth Connor Gus Fogg

Robert Coote Rt. Hon. Mervyn Pugh

Robertson Hare The Archdeacon, The Venerable Henry Blunt

George Cole Charles

Peter Jones Gerald Garvey

Leslie Crowther Thomas Jones

Bernard Cribbins Arnold

Deryck Guyler Mr. Powell

William Mervyn The Bishop, The Right Reverend Cuthbert Hever

Moira Lister Janet Pugh

Lynn Redgrave Sheila

June Whitfield Rose Garvey

Amanda Barrie Geraldine Woods

Cicely Courtneidge The Bursar

Joan Sims Isabel 'Is' Conway

Priscilla Morgan

Priscilla Morgan Mrs. Jones

Francis Matthews Mr. Dillington

Derek Nimmo The Chaplain, Rev. Mervyn Noote

Celia Hewitt

Celia Hewitt Michelle Pugh

Reg Varney Harry Butt

Dorothy Frere

Richard Pearson Happy Brazier

John Barron The Dean, The Very Reverend Lionel Pugh-Critchley

Daphne Anderson Mrs. Nicholson

Pat Coombs Lana Butt

John Gabriel

Tenniel Evans Bernard

Derek Royle Mr. Swann

James Beck Policeman

Nan Munro

Nan Munro Miss Dempster

Anne Jameson

Anne Jameson Mary

James Chase

Brian Wilde Mr. Salisbury

Info about Comedy Playhouse

Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC One

Genres: Comedy