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- DirectorKevin BillingtonStarsAnn BeachDesmond Walter-EllisPeter CookFresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics, and in the mini-skirted, flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain, he starts to rise through the Tory ranks.
- StarsJohn CleeseGraham ChapmanTim Brooke-TaylorWritten by and starring The Goodies' Tim Brooke-Taylor, Monty Python's Graham Chapman and John Cleese, and comedy legend Marty Feldman, "At Last the 1948 Show" is a groundbreaking, splendidly silly and surreal sketch comedy series.
- 19641h 35mPG8.3 (520K)97MetascoreDirectorStanley KubrickStarsPeter SellersGeorge C. ScottSterling HaydenAn unhinged American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
- DirectorAri GolanStarsJoseph StevenPeter CrabbeSamantha Harris
- DirectorJoseph McGrathStarsPeter SellersRingo StarrIsabel JeansThe world's richest man and his adopted hobo son set out to test the limits of human vanity and greed through a series of "money games".
- StarsDavid FrostRonnie BarkerRonnie CorbettA comedy show written and staring various comedy pioneers including comedians who would go on to form the Two Ronnies and Monty Python.
- StarsMarty FeldmanJohn JunkinTim Brooke-TaylorMarty is a British television sketch comedy series Starring the talented comedian Marty Feldman.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsPeter SellersDavid LodgeBernard CribbinsWhile in prison, Dodger plots the perfect heist: break out, steal diamonds, get back before noticed. With days left on sentence and a solid alibi, he's confident nothing can go wrong.
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsSid CaesarJoyce JamesonRichard DeaconA (highly shortened) remake of the classic British comedy of the same name about a poor and undeveloped country that declares a war on the US with the hope of losing - but things go wrong almost from the start.
- DirectorAlexander MackendrickStarsAlec GuinnessPeter SellersCecil ParkerFive oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
- StarsJonathan LynnDilys WatlingBill OddieThis was several similar format light entertainment shows, on radio and television at the end of the 1960s. Sketches were expected to fit into a plot and be interspersed with music, something which still persisted for some shows until the 1990s. More Pythonesque than anything before, but still a lot to learn by the future comedy greats.
- DirectorEric IdleGary WeisStarsEric IdleJohn HalseyRicky FataarCharts the adventures of the prefab four, possibly the most famous band of all time.
- DirectorMel DamskiStarsGraham ChapmanPeter BoyleCheech MarinAfter serving two decades in prison, Yellowbeard (Graham Chapman) breaks out determined to recover the treasure that he buried so long ago, alongside his son, old crew, and the British Navy.
- DirectorJohn Michael PhillipsStarsEric IdleLesley GarrettBonaventura BottoneA staging of "The Mikado" set in an English country hotel during the 1920s.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJohn NevilleEric IdleSarah PolleyAn account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences across late 18th-century Europe with his band of misfits.
- StarsPierce BrosnanEric IdleJulia NicksonA Victorian Age English gentleman takes a wager that he can circle the globe in the unprecedented time of just eighty days.
- DirectorRobert YoungStarsEric IdleRick MoranisBarbara HersheyA duke dies and leaves the title and wealth to his adult son. But who's the real son: the found baby raised in USA or the abandoned baby raised by a Hindi family in London? Comedy follows.
- DirectorEric IdleAubrey PowellStarsRussell BrandBilly ConnollyTim CurryThis movie begins with the birth of a sex toy invented in Shagistan in 1898 by Deepak Obi Ben Kingsley (Eddie Izzard), and tells the story of the subsequent decline of the British Empire as seen through the eyes of a Piano (Eric Idle). The Piano narrates the tale of Dick (Russell Brand); his two cousins: Emma Schlegel (Jane Leeves), an emotionally retarded English girl; her kleptomaniac sister Helena (Sophie Winkleman) and their dipsomaniac Aunt Maggie (Tracey Ullman) who all live together in a large, rambling, Edwardian novel. When the Reverend Whoopsie (Tim Curry) discovers a piano on a beach, a plot is set afoot that can be solved only by a private Dick, the incomprehensible Scottish sleuth Inspector McGuffin (Sir Billy Connolly), who, with the aid of Sergeant Ken Russell (Jim Piddock) finally reveals the identity of the Houndsditch Mutilator.
- StarsDenise CoffeyEric IdleDavid JasonShort comedy sketches performed by an ensemble cast accompanied by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, an eccentric English group featuring Neil Innes and fronted by Vivian Stanshall.
- StarsEric IdleNeil InnesDavid BattleyComedy sketch series purporting to show the programming of a low key regional television service.
- DirectorJonathan LynnStarsEric IdleRobbie ColtraneCamille Coduri2 criminals want out but their boss kills those leaving. When the men are ordered to rob the triad, they keep the money and hide from the boss, triad and police at a convent, dressed as nuns.
- CreatorJimmy PerryStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnA ragtag group of Home Guard volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion during World War II.
- StarsRonnie BarkerRonnie CorbettThe Fred Tomlinson SingersThis long-running BBC comedy show consisted of sketches and humourous musical routines.
- StarsRonnie BarkerBrian WildeFulton MackayThe prison life of Fletcher, a criminal serving a five-year sentence, as he strives to bide his time, keep his record clean, and refuses to be ground down by the prison system.