Comedy Playhouse

Comedy Playhouse
Titlecard for the 1961/1962 series episode "The Offer". This episode was the pilot for Steptoe and Son.
Created by	Tom Sloan
Starring	Various
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of episodes	137 (95 missing)
Production
Running time	Usually 25 minutes, 30 minutes or 35 minutes
Original release
Network	BBC1
Release	15 December 1961 (1961-12-15) – 9 July 1975 (1975-07-09)
Release	29 April 2014 (2014-04-29) – 15 September 2017 (2017-09-15)
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Comedy Playhouse^[1] is a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 128 episodes from 1961 to 1975. Many episodes later graduated to their own series, including Steptoe and Son, Meet the Wife, Till Death Us Do Part, All Gas and Gaiters, Up Pompeii!, Not in Front of the Children, Me Mammy, That's Your Funeral, The Liver Birds, Are You Being Served? and particularly Last of the Summer Wine, which is the world's longest running sitcom, having run from January 1973 to August 2010. In all, 27 sitcoms started from a pilot in the Comedy Playhouse strand.

In March 2014, it was announced that Comedy Playhouse would make a return that year with three new episodes.^[2] Two further series each comprising three episodes were broadcast in 2016 and 2017 respectively.^[3][4]