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Hi-de-Hi!

Posted on September 22, 2018 by Gary Rodger — No Comments ↓

The Sitcom Club returns – Gary and Tilt kick-off the new season with Croft and Perry’s holiday camp classic Hi-de-Hi!

ITV Christmas Comedy

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Gary Rodger — No Comments ↓

The Sitcom Club returns with a seasonal selection of specials as Gary and Tilt review Network’s Classic ITV Christmas Comedy boxset.

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Kinvig

Posted on September 8, 2017 by Gary Rodger — No Comments ↓

Blimey, The Sitcom Club has returned! Gary and Tilt are back with a one-off show focusing on Nigel Kneale’s 1981 sci-fi series Kinvig.

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BBC Sitcom Season Lost Shows

Posted on October 7, 2016 by Gary Rodger — No Comments ↓

It’s The Sitcom Club’s final podcast for the foreseeable, and we’ll be honest – it didn’t go well. Gary and Tilt discuss BBC4’s Lost Shows: Till Death Us Do Part, Hancock’s Half Hour and Steptoe And Son.

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BBC Sitcom Season Revivals

Posted on September 30, 2016 by Gary Rodger — No Comments ↓

The Sitcom Club returns! This time, we’re looking at the BBC’s Sitcom Season and the four BBC1 revivals – Are You Being Served, Porridge, Goodnight Sweetheart and Young Hyacinth – with guest Gee Baker.

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The Monkees

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Gary Rodger — No Comments ↓

It’s a fourth of July special as The Sitcom Club discusses The Monkees with guest Melanie Mitchell, author of ‘Monkee Magic: a Book about a TV Show about a Band‘.

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Sitcoms & The Upper Class

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Gary Rodger — No Comments ↓

In the final part of our occasional series on class, we discuss representations of the upper class in shows such as To The Manor Born.

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dinnerladies

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Gary Rodger — No Comments ↓

In a special Bank Holiday edition, The Sitcom Club discusses Victoria Wood’s 1998 sitcom dinnerladies.

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David Jason At ITV

Posted on March 28, 2016 by Gary Rodger — No Comments ↓

It’s a Holiday Monday Sitcom Club! For our first 2016 outing, Gary and Tilt review three ITV vehicles for David Jason: The Top Secret Life Of Edgar Briggs, Lucky Feller and A Sharp Intake Of Breath.

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Jaffa Cakes For Proust – Three Christmas Carols

Posted on December 24, 2015 by Gary Rodger — No Comments ↓

Merry Christmas Eve from Jaffa Cakes For Proust! We’re plundering the archives to enjoy three very different versions of Charles Dickens’ classic tale.

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