Comedy gold unearthed
At Last The 1948 Show, at last
23/11/2003 … An episode of the Sixties comedy series that spawned the Pythons is to be aired for the first time in 36 years, after lost footage was painstakingly reconstructed.
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Sun 23 November 2003
Sat 22 November 2003
Dave's a headliner
22/11/2003 … Phoenix Nights star Dave Spikey is working on a new ITV1 sitcom set in a useless local newspaper.
Fri 21 November 2003
Blair turns yellow
21/11/2003 … Tony Blair is to appear on The Simpsons on Sunday.
Jackie's Broadway flop
Mason's musical to close early
21/11/2003 … Jackie Mason's Broadway comedy Laughing Room Only is to close early.
Dodd stalker detained
Judge: 'You were a dangerous menace'
21/11/2003 … A stalker who sent a dead rat to Ken Dodd and set fire to his house has been detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act.
American hero?
Another sitcom heading for the States?
21/11/2003 … BBC sitcom My Hero could be the latest British comedy to cross the Atlantic.
Wed 19 November 2003
Mearns tested
Comic lands role in Loach movie
19/11/2003 … Scottish comic Raymond Mearns has landed a role in the next Ken Loach movies.
On The Buses star dead
Bob Grant found in fume-filled car
19/11/2003 … On The Buses star Bob Grant has been found dead in an exhaust-filled car.