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Compilation of classic clips, featuring the best performances from across the much-loved comedian's long BBC career, including examples of Emery's best-known slapstick routines and catchphrases. All the greatest clips from Dick Emery's long-running BBC career - a chance for fans both old and new to see what a huge contribution Emery made to contemporary slapstick comedy. All the classic characters appear: the father and son skinheads (with Roy Kinnear), "Oooh! You Are Awful", and a plethora of slapstick Lords, little old ladies, vicars and schoolmasters.
Life in a Scottish New Town
The year is 1974, and Barbara Dean (Judi Dench), a British assistant manager in a foreign bank in Saigon, begins a relationship with American Bob Chesneau (Frederic Forrest). She quickly realises that he works for the CIA and he knows that the fall of South Vietnam is very near.
A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.
Management and staff at Brixton's Savoy Cinema prepare for the premiere of the new sex film "Love In The Undergrowth", which is to be reluctantly attended by the star Gloria Overtones. At a party at a local restaurant following the showing Gloria is about to find out more about her parentage, and cinema usherette Sylvie discovers she has a new career ahead of her.
Curry Up Harry! Was a 1978 sitcom starring Harry Worth as a beleaguered proprietor of a Brick Lane curry house getting involved in hilarious cultural clashes with his Indian staff, twins Gunga and Din, played by Albert Moses or Dino Shafeek and Michael Bates.
A doctor fathers 837 brilliant sons through an artificial insemination program, and every woman wants a donation.
A young handyman and his wife move to a small village and set up business. There, the handyman encounters numerous strange characters, including a local constable more inept than a squad car full of Keystone Kops; an elderly magistrate whose primary passion is spanking young women; a schoolmistress with a closetful of kinks; and more predatory housewives than the young man can handle.
Virginal nerd Jon Pigeon, manages to secure a job in a sex research institute where the patients run about the corridors naked, nude aerobics are encouraged and no man is safe from the crotch-grabbing tea lady. In his attempts to seduce pretty office secretary Cheryl, Pigeon invents a machine called Agnes that emits a 'sonic aphrodisiac' guaranteed to turn any man or woman into an slathering sex maniac. Although his attempts to zap Cheryl are singularly unsuccessful, Pigeon gets some interesting results when he accidentally turns the 'sex ray' on his bullying boss Nutbrown and the prudish Mary Watchtower.
The comedic shenanigans of a man who inherits a boat.
John Cleese stars as Sherlock Holmes in this Comedy Playhouse pilot episode from 1973.
Classic sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques as brother and sister twins who have to tackle the trials and tribulations of suburban life.