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S03E01 – The Judgemental 80s
It's series 3, and we take our first steps into the world of Dear John, meeting early Roy Cropper...
Series 3 Trailer
It's Series 3 of the SADDO podcast! And in this series of The Sitcom Archive Deep Dive Overdrive we're leaping...
S02E13.5 – Snaveley Manor (Fawlty Towers US Style)
In this belated New Year's bonus episode, we're joined by Gareth and Allen from the British Sitcom History Podcast...
S02E13 – Asking For a Bunch of Fives
When a visit from a public health official threatens to shut down Filthy Towers for good, the team must...
S02E12 – Paella Wars
It's the Fawltys 15th wedding anniversary and Basil's forgotten (or has he?) When Sybil flounces off just before the...
S02E11 – Dr Sausages
Dead guests, blow up sex dolls, a kipper in a tank top, a doctor with a one-track-mind: it's the...
S02E10 – Hotdog
When a bolshy transatlantic visitor pays Basil £20 to keep the chef on after hours, Jacko has other ideas,...
S02E09 – Pretentious Moi?
When a psychiatrist checks in at Fawlty Titties, sexually repressed Basil immediately assumes that he is being psychoanalysed, while...
S02E08 – Flying Tart
When Basil has some luck on the gee-gees, he's desperate to prevent the dragon from finding out, so what...
S02E07.5 – Stephen Hall (Basil Mark II)
Eggs is joined by Australian actor, comic, writer and quiz guru Stephen Hall. Stephen was hand-picked by John Cleese...
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Blathering on about our favourite sitcoms of yesteryear is fun. So much so that when we’re not talking about shows like The Good Life, Open All Hours and Dear John, we’re writing about them! Check out our latest blog posts for some gushing love letters to the shows, characters, fashion and language of the 1970s and 1980s
Rose Tinted 70s Spectacles
Alison explores how looking back at a bygone era only ever experienced through a combination of repeats and outdated family decor still manages to invoke a warm and cosy glow of nostalgia….
Margo Leadbetter: Elegant, Timeless Fashion Icon
Regularly voted one of the best sitcom characters ever created, the appeal of The Good Life’s Margo Leadbetter is an enduring one. Approaching 50 years since Margo first graced our screens — floral print mumus, kaftans and colourful headbands to the fore — her appeal as a comedy creation and a fashion icon, has never diminished…
Self Sustainability and Living The Good Life in 2020
The Good Life is a show we can still learn so much from, even 4 decades on, including not to become too reliant on ‘the system’, and how to maintain a friendship with people who have opinions that are poles apart from our own….
Lovely Barbara Good and her awful man-child husband, Tom
Felicity Kendal, who played Barbara Good in classic 70s sitcom ‘The Good Life’, is a singularly beautiful woman, as well as an accomplished actress. But what did her character Barbara see in her overgrown man-child husband Tom?
