Comedy Connections was a BBC One documentary series produced by BBC Scotland that aired from 2003 to 2008. The show looked at the stories behind the production of some of Britain's comedy television programmes, showing how they tied in with the production of other comedy shows. The show featured interviews with some of the cast and crew of the subject programme, as well as footage from the series. Comedy Connections mostly documented BBC comedies and sitcoms, although two programmes have been from ITV 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 were narrated by Julia Sawalha, however the rest of the series were narrated by Doon Mackichan.
Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
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Season 1 | Episode 1 | Porridge | 2003-06-09 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 2 | The Good Life | 2003-06-16 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 3 | Are You Being Served | 2003-06-23 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 4 | Men Behaving Badly | 2003-06-30 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 5 | Butterflies | 2003-07-07 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 6 | Only Fools and Horses | 2003-07-14 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 1 | The Goodies | 2004-06-21 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 2 | Birds of a Feather | 2004-06-28 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 3 | Father Ted | 2004-07-12 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 4 | The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin | 2004-07-19 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 5 | Keeping Up Appearances | 2004-07-26 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 6 | The Young Ones | 2004-08-02 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 7 | Hi-de-Hi | 2004-08-09 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 8 | Red Dwarf | 2004-08-30 | 30 min |
Season 3 | Episode 1 | Monty Python's Flying Circus | 2005-02-21 | 30 min |
Season 3 | Episode 2 | Spitting Image | 2005-02-28 | 30 min |
Season 3 | Episode 3 | Three of a Kind | 2005-03-07 | 30 min |
Season 3 | Episode 4 | Harry Enfield and Chums | 2005-03-14 | 30 min |
Season 3 | Episode 5 | Goodness Gracious Me | 2005-03-21 | 30 min |
Season 3 | Episode 6 | Not the Nine O'Clock News | 2005-03-28 | 30 min |
Season 3 | Episode 7 | A Bit of Fry and Laurie | 2005-04-04 | 30 min |
Season 3 | Episode 8 | The Two Ronnies | 2005-04-11 | 30 min |
Season 4 | Episode 1 | The Fast Show | 2006-03-06 | 30 min |
Season 4 | Episode 2 | Dinnerladies | 2006-03-13 | 30 min |
Season 4 | Episode 3 | Drop the Dead Donkey | 2006-03-20 | 30 min |
Season 4 | Episode 4 | Shooting Stars | 2006-04-03 | 30 min |
Season 4 | Episode 5 | To the Manor Born | 2006-04-10 | 30 min |
Season 4 | Episode 6 | 'Allo 'Allo! | 2006-04-24 | 30 min |
Season 4 | Episode 7 | That Was the Week That Was | 2006-05-01 | 30 min |
Season 4 | Episode 8 | Ever Decreasing Circles | 2006-05-08 | 30 min |
Season 5 | Episode 1 | One Foot in the Grave | 2007-01-12 | 30 min |
Season 5 | Episode 2 | Bread | 2007-01-19 | 30 min |
Season 5 | Episode 3 | It Ain't Half Hot Mum | 2007-01-26 | 30 min |
Season 5 | Episode 4 | The New Statesman | 2007-02-02 | 30 min |
Season 5 | Episode 5 | Don't Wait Up | 2007-02-09 | 30 min |
Season 5 | Episode 6 | The Office | 2007-02-16 | 30 min |
Season 5 | Episode 7 | Just Good Friends | 2007-02-23 | 30 min |
Season 5 | Episode 8 | Alas Smith and Jones | 2007-03-02 | 30 min |
Season 6 | Episode 1 | Till Death Do Us Part | 2008-07-18 | 30 min |
Season 6 | Episode 2 | Yes, Minister | 2008-07-25 | 30 min |
Season 6 | Episode 3 | The Liver Birds | 2008-08-01 | 30 min |
Season 6 | Episode 4 | Ripping Yarns | 2008-08-08 | 30 min |
Season 6 | Episode 5 | Rab C Nesbitt | 2008-08-15 | 30 min |
Season 6 | Episode 6 | Sorry! | 2008-08-22 | 30 min |
Season 6 | Episode 7 | Dad's Army | 2008-08-29 | 30 min |
Season 6 | Episode 8 | Little Britain | 2008-09-04 | 30 min |