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From ‘something completely different’ to icons of comedy and national treasures, this is a collection of rarely-seen Monty Python moments from the BBC archives, following the group’s encounters with ‘Auntie’ over the past 50 years.
The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the house a visit. It will take more than 200 years... Based on the novel "No Nightingales" by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon.
Two young gay friends, Luke and Toby, go camping in local beauty spot Deiana Wood. As darkness falls, they share ghostly bedtime stories about Deiana Wood's blood-soaked history.
As well as being the all round entertainer we all know and love from the telly, Count Arthur Strong is also a lifelong fan of astronomy, since having been given a microscope, or whatever it is they use, for Christmas when he was a small precocious baby. In fact it's said the first word he spoke was 'Uranus'. In this, his brand new show, he seamlessly combines the very best of showbiz entertainment you'll currently find, in the world, possibly, as he wrestles with some of the big questions that all round entertainers shy away from. Are we alone in the universe? Is there life on Mars bars? 2lbs of potatoes. Packet of ginger nuts. Don't lose this shopping list.
Using his failed attempts at creating profitable stock footage, a filmmaker reflects on the absurd, mundane and funny side of being trapped inside your own head as an out of work, self-employed freelancer.
It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising. Their Sgt Major is not happy about this and orders them to take the balloon down, but a freak heavy wind accidentally carries the gang away to Nazi Germany. They are captured and placed in a detention camp where they meet an elderly prisoner named Jerry, who possess a map for the location of a secret weapon which will win the war! Fortunately Teddy Knox's impersonation of Hitler lands him the spot of pretending to be the Fuhrer at a gala dinner and the gang are allowed out of the camp. However the Nazis have other ideas for their substitute leader.
A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other women.
A quickfire tale of flirtation and frustration in the not-so-wild west.
A Group of Britain's top comedy and music performers gather at a London Theater, to give their support to the Oncology Club Fund. The Fund is a charitable organization which provides training for young doctors in the practical day to day care of patients with cancer.
After ransacking an ancient island monastery, two siblings, now trapped in their sinking campervan, are torn apart by history, hallucination, and a sacred stone.
Charlie, Danny and Gavin are down on their luck and out of work. After a chance encounter with Killer Ken, a self defense instructor, they decide to start their own security company, HeadLock Security. With not much experience but unbridled enthusiasm they may have bitten off more than they can chew
Ramona takes all her therapist's advice as the word of God. But instead of enlightenment, she finds herself in a trinity of confusion with an empty chair.
With an experimental treatment looming to cure her aggressive cancer, Jamie ventures to the lake where her and her girlfriend, Grace, fell in love, fearful it will be the last time she ever sees it.
Merseyside Police's first COVID detective hits the streets.
Fantasy of a bank clerk who accepts a deposit of a million too late to put it in the bank and has to guard it over the weekend.
Bono estente! It's been over 25 years since quickfire sketch show classic The Fast Show first hit our screens, and what better way to celebrate its enduring success than with a two-hour extravaganza of archive clips, cast interviews and rarely seen footage?
With quarantine loosening and lifting in places, Alex and his cat Mr Fluffkins have been having a pretty chilled time, but life is about to change for these two... or is it?
A mockumentary about Paul Roberts who is found sleeping rough on a mattress struggling with his music career after leaving his band The Stranglers after 16 years.
Noel Edmonds, Keith Chegwin, John Craven and Maggie Philbin reunite for a one-off edition of the Saturday morning classic Swap Shop to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
Owen is trying to circumnavigate the safety parameters of a smart home device when he’s trying to dispose of a corpse.
During New Year's Eve, a young model spends the day searching for her grandmother, who has suspiciously gone missing.
A family butler tries to find the missing heir to a title.
A night watchman is being bludgeoned, as a safe is cracked open in the offices of the District Food Controller. A list of wartime foods to be rationed is stolen, and the police fear gangsters are planning to sell the foods on the black market. As the office charwoman, Old Mother Riley's fingerprints are all over the safe, and she becomes the police's number one suspect. To prove her innocence, Mother Riley turns detective, adopting various methods and disguises to track down the villains.
What happens when after the Wonderland, Alice finds herself in the post-Brexit United Kingdom? Philosophy student Alice’s world is turned upside down on the morning after a masquerade party when her soulmate Rabbit whom she found the previous night has disappeared into thin air without leaving a trace after the crazy night, as befits the mysticism of the 21st century.
Live from Stratford-upon-Avon. The Royal Shakespeare Company presents As You Like It.
When Bill struggles with artist’s block, a figure from his past emerges - leading him on a journey to embrace his true self.
Jimmy Tarbuck parades his comic wares in front of a celebrity audience, including Cilla Black, Bruce Forsyth, Billy Connolly, Michael Parkinson, Harry Secombe and Henry Cooper.
Greyhawks Rugby Club is under threat from land developers, and Dave's position as chairman is being challenged by an extremely loud Australian. The faithful few have gathered on the morning before the election to watch England in the Rugby World Cup Final and tensions are running high for more reasons than one Why does Jake, the first team prodigy, leave the room every time Jonny Wilkinson takes a kick?
After foiling a robbery, Ben, a window cleaner is hired by Lady Barr-Nunn to guard her valuables. A comedy based on class divisions and snobbery.
Liz will do anything to get pregnant when her gay best friend bails the morning of her ovulation. Her day starts to look up when Guido, a neurotic-stalker-baby-lover, breaks into her flat.
An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.
A comedy about friendship and routines entirely set in a police patrol car. We see the day to day lives of two new partners Gary and Jenny.
A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she married him because she wants to stay in France. Complications ensue.
Propaganda comedy promoting the benefits of saving for the war effort.
Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week's holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her niece has not arrived, a police investigation into her disappearance begins. It seems that Henry was fully occupied at the time his wife went missing; but is his alibi completely truthful?
A cabal of sentient shopping carts take up grisly revenge after they've been pushed around long enough.
A boy living in underdeveloped Welsh village hopes for a better time of his homeland when seeing the two Japaneese businessmen with the apparent intentions to build a factory there.
This cheerful mix of wartime spy drama and comedy sees the returning heroes of a small English village recount their exploits in the war in Mesopotamia. German spies have been using a Peace Society as a front for their nefarious activities (the rotters!), but our stout lads are on to them. They finally rout the blackguards while on active service in the Middle East - or at least the English field that stands in for it! The eponymous lads actually include a lass, who joins up as a nurse.
A beautician meets and falls in love with a young man, and they soon marry. What she doesn't know, however, is that her new husband is actually a millionaire who is suffering from amnesia—and he already has a wife.
After an event tears a hole in the multiverse, we follow two average people who try and grasp with the legacies they want to lead, while struggling with exploring this brand new world.
During World War II, the Canadian Navy gathered a troupe of diverse performers (dancers, comedians, singers, musicians) from its ranks and sent them off to entertain their shipmates, and the show/revue ultimately played London's Hioopodrome. The acceptance was based more on wartime-London's appreciation of the gallantry of Britain's sons and daughters from over the seas than it was on the artistic value of the show or the talent of the performers. The film is a fictional/fact mixture of the adventures of the troupe members, and the ending, only part filmed in Technicolor, is primarily the Revue as seen at the Hippodrome.
Award-winning comedian Pierre Novellie’s latest stand-up special explores why he finds most things a 6/10 - and why he doesn’t see eye-to-eye with anyone else on what makes a 0/10 or a 10/10
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders perform a live comedy show in London's West End at the world famous Shaftesbury Theatre, in front of a hugely appreciative sell-out audience. Over an hour of hilarious sketches and gags, with support provided by Raw Sex (Simon Brint and Rowland Rivron as Ken and Duane Bishop).
Thursday morning, Jerusalem. Nira goes to work. Ahmad in London does the same, Ralf in Cologne and a priest in Prague too. Matija, Croat, goes to work as well. Ok, he doesn't, but he acts as if he does. Ahmad is taking his routine red bus journey. Out-of-breath young man comes in and interrupts it. Schoolteacher Nira is also interrupted - her pupil jumps out and performs a love rap song he wrote for her. The priest in Prague doesn't feel like singing today, he is in the mood for (over)sleeping instead. Someone falls asleep, someone else - Ralf - falls in love. All five mentioned above are listening to the top-news about the disappearance of bees. And trying their best, each one of them in his or her own 'hive': Zagreb, Jerusalem, London, Cologne, Prague...
Sean Lock Live is the magnificent finale to Sean’s British tour, recorded in front of over 3,000 fans at the world famous Hammersmith Apollo. Sean is at the height of his powers, as his unique mix of fantastic imagery and bizarre observation leaves the audience breathless. Sean takes you on a relentlessly surreal journey, culminating in a finale that no other comic would contemplate.
A young boy who has recently lost his mother finds new meaning when a shooting star lands in his garden.
From his smash-hit new show ‘Off On Tour We Go’, Jason’s new DVD is guaranteed to get you laughing, with hilarious tales ranging from shower mishaps and embarrassing stories to the phrases that people get wrong and dealing with nappies. Renowned for his hilarious observations and loveable, friendly delivery, Jason has been a firm favourite with comedy fans of all ages since his first solo stand-up show earned him huge critical acclaim. Jason Manford is now selling out huge arenas, including the Manchester MEN, where this show was filmed, and the London O2. Jason is making his mark as the master of observational comedy.
Dr Dilf, Nurse Meow and Nurse Spanks are trying to create a cure to the anti-death gas which was accidentally unleashed in the last film. The good doctor and his half dressed nurses are against the clock as a killer is after them and is determined to hunt them down.
Lionel’s boring life as a salesman in a lacklustre electrical appliances store is instantly revived when vibrant, quirky Beatrice wanders into his store, looking for a new vacuum cleaner. When this malfunctions, she asks Lionel to come over to her house to fix it. Lionel is bewitched by Beatrice and, in order to see her again, he hatches the plan of breaking into her house to sabotage her household appliances.
A doctor fathers 837 brilliant sons through an artificial insemination program, and every woman wants a donation.
When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady.
Outrageous humour from Jim Davidson on tour.
Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.
Featuring classic routines especially chosen by the British public, including Garlic Bread, Dipping Biscuits, the dancing skills of people at weddings, as well as the video for the No. 1 smash-hit ‘(I’m Gonna Be) 500 Miles’.
K-9INE! follows Roy, a recently retired Police dog handler. His routine takes an unexpected turn when he invites Tea Leaf, a shoplifting door-to-door salesman into his home.
What happens when sibling rivarly really goes up all the wall? Jim is on a mission for redemption against those who betrayed him the most.
Five strangers meet online and come together, to take a pilgrimage to Loch Ness. Unaware that one of their numbers is an imposter, they go in search of a monster... and don't have to look too far to find one.
As the ice age dawned and the first snows began to fall, two shivering cavemen stumbled into a fierce blizzard and became entombed in ice. There they remained, frozen in time for fifty-thousand years… That is until a team of archaeologists discovered them and proudly brought them back to the Natural History Museum for all to see… But a short circuit in their cryogenic freezer has brought the two chums back to life. Now, when the coast is clear, and all of the visitors have gone home, STIX and STONES venture out into their confusing new world - where they get up to some serious Neanda-LOLs!
The greatest author of the twentieth century finds himself in a hotel room with a gendarme and a chicken...
Canary is a heartwarming tale about a small bakery in the beautiful coastal town of Cornwall. The bakery, run by a young couple named Lily and Jack, is a staple in the community, known for its delicious pastries and friendly atmosphere. However, when a large chain bakery moves in next door and threatens to put the couple out of business, Lily and Jack must fight to save their beloved bakery