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Comedy Connections | |
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Narrated by | Julia Sawalha Doon Mackichan |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of episodes | 47 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producers | Mike Bolland (Series 1-2) Gary Chippington (Series 3) Alan Tyler (Series 4-) Toby Stevens (Director) |
Running time | 30 minutes (series 1 to 3) 40 minutes (series 4 to 6) |
Original release | |
Network | BBC One |
Release | 9 June 2003 – present |
Release | Toby Stevens (Series 5-) |
Release | Toby Stevens (Series 5-) |
Release | Toby Stevens (Series 5-) |
Release | Toby Stevens (Series 5-) |
Release | Toby Stevens (Series 5-) |
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Release | Toby Stevens (Series 5-) |
Comedy Connections is a BBC One documentary series produced by BBC Scotland that has aired since 2003. The show looks at the stories behind the production of some of Britain's comedy television programmes, showing how they tie in with the production of other comedy shows (hence "connections"). The shows feature interviews with some of the cast and crew of the subject programme, as well as footage from the series.
Comedy Connections mostly documents BBC comedies and sitcoms, although two programmes have been from ITV (three counting Men Behaving Badly which moved from ITV to the BBC after one series) and two from Channel 4.
The first series consisted of six episodes, however the rest of the series consist of eight episodes each, the first two series where narrated by Julia Sawalha, however the rest of the series have since been narrated by Doon Mackichan.
Series Summary
Series | Episodes | Air Date |
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Series 1 | 6 | 9 June - 14 July 2003 |
Series 2 | 8 | 21 June - 30 August 2004 |
Series 3 | 8 | 21 February - 11 April 2005 |
Series 4 | 8 | 6 March - 8 May 2006 |
Series 5 | 8 | 12 January - 2 March 2007 |
Series 6 | 8 | 18 July - 4 September 2008 |
Episodes
The first two series were narrated by Julia Sawalha and the third series onwards by Doon Mackichan. From Monday 19th April 2010, G.O.L.D will show six episodes from series 2.
Series One (2003)
Overall # | Ep # | Title | Airdate | Notes |
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1 | 1 | Porridge | 9 June 2003 | |
2 | 2 | The Good Life | 16 June 2003 | |
3 | 3 | Are You Being Served? | 23 June 2003 | |
4 | 4 | Men Behaving Badly | 30 June 2003 | |
5 | 5 | Butterflies | 7 July 2003 | |
6 | 6 | Only Fools and Horses | 14 July 2003 |
Series Two (2004)
Overall # | Ep # | Title | Airdate | Notes |
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7 | 1 | The Goodies | 21 June 2004 | |
8 | 2 | Birds of a Feather | 28 June 2004 | |
9 | 3 | Father Ted | 12 July 2004 | Featured as a special feature on the DVD box-set. |
10 | 4 | The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin | 18 July 2004 | Featured as a special feature on the DVD box-set. |
11 | 5 | Keeping Up Appearances | 26 July 2004 | |
12 | 6 | The Young Ones | 2 August 2004 | |
13 | 7 | Hi-de-Hi! | 9 August 2004 | |
14 | 8 | Red Dwarf | 30 August 2004 | This episode is the last to be narated by Julia Sawalha and is included as a special feature on the Red Dwarf Series VIII DVD. |
Series Three (2005)
Overall # | Ep # | Title | Airdate | Notes |
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15 | 1 | Monty Python's Flying Circus | 21 February 2005 | Doon Mackichan becomes narrator from this episode |
16 | 2 | Spitting Image | 28 February 2005 | |
17 | 3 | Three of a Kind | 7 March 2005 | |
18 | 4 | Harry Enfield and Chums | 14 March 2005 | |
19 | 5 | Goodness Gracious Me | 21 March 2005 | |
20 | 6 | Not the Nine O'Clock News | 28 March 2005 | |
21 | 7 | A Bit of Fry and Laurie | 4 April 2005 | |
22 | 8 | The Two Ronnies | 11 April 2005 |
Series Four (2006)
Overall # | Ep # | Title | Airdate | Notes |
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23 | 1 | The Fast Show | 6 March 2006 | Featured as a special feature on the DVD box-set. |
24 | 2 | dinnerladies | 13 March 2006 | |
25 | 3 | Drop the Dead Donkey | 20 March 2006 | |
26 | 4 | Shooting Stars | 3 April 2006 | |
27 | 5 | To the Manor Born | 10 April 2006 | |
28 | 6 | 'Allo 'Allo! | 24 April 2006 | |
29 | 7 | That Was The Week That Was | 1 May 2006 | |
30 | 8 | Ever Decreasing Circles | 8 May 2006 |
Series Five (2007)
Overall # | Ep # | Title | Airdate | Notes |
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31 | 1 | One Foot in the Grave | 12 January 2007 | |
32 | 2 | Bread | 19 January 2007 | |
33 | 3 | It Ain't Half Hot Mum | 26 January 2007 | |
34 | 4 | The New Statesman | 2 February 2007 | |
35 | 5 | Don't Wait Up | 9 February 2007 | |
36 | 6 | The Office | 16 February 2007 | |
37 | 7 | Just Good Friends | 23 February 2007 | |
38 | 8 | Alas Smith and Jones | 2 March 2007 |
Series Six (2008)
Overall # | Ep # | Title | Airdate | Notes |
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39 | 1 | Till Death Us Do Part | 18 July 2008 | |
40 | 2 | Yes Minister/Yes, Prime Minister | 25 July 2008 | |
41 | 3 | The Liver Birds | 1 August 2008 | |
42 | 4 | Ripping Yarns | 8 August 2008 | |
43 | 5 | Rab C. Nesbitt | 15 August 2008 | |
44 | 6 | Sorry! | 22 August 2008 | |
45 | 7 | Dad's Army | 29 August 2008 | |
46 | 8 | Little Britain | 4 September 2008 |
Special
Overall # | Ep # | Title | Airdate | Notes |
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47 | 1 | Geoffrey Perkins | 8 November 2008 | Only special so far and only episode based on a person |
Spin Offs based on other TV Generations
In 2005, the BBC broadcast Drama Connections, which using the same format, looked at the history of popular British television dramas; (however only one series of Drama Connections was made and shown)
In 2007, the BBC broadcast Movie Connections, focusing on popular British films, A second series of Movie Connections was broadcast in early 2009.
Other show based on Comedy Connections format
In 2008 ITV launched their own documentary series under the title Comedy Classics mostly documenting ITV sitcoms and comedies.
A second series of Comedy Classics is currently in production and will air in early 2010.
Series One (2008)
- On the Buses (9 September 2008)
- Rising Damp (23 September 2008)
- Doctor in the House (7 October 2008)
- Brass (14 October 2008)
- Duty Free (18 November 2008)
- The New Statesman (2 December 2008)