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Timeshift
Season 1 · Episode 6
he Rise and Fall of the Comedy Straight Man
0.01h 0mNovember 30, 2002
Timeshift celebrates the comedy double act's unsung half, with archive footage of Morecambe and Wise, Benny Hill and the Monty Python team. Contributors include Syd Little and Barry Cryer. Narrated by Mark Lamarr.
Episodes
- Episode 1The Grunwick Strike
- Episode 2The Cannabis Years
- Episode 3The Writer's Trade
- Episode 4The Sailing Sixties
- Episode 5Attenborough: The Controller Years
- Episode 6he Rise and Fall of the Comedy Straight Man
- Episode 7A Shadow Over Europe
- Episode 8Whatever Happened to the Working Class?
- Episode 9Notting Hill Riots
- Episode 10What Have the Germans Done for Us?
- Episode 11Greenham Common Changed My Life
- Episode 12Car Crazy
- Episode 13The Magic Roundabout Story
- Episode 14Malcolm Muggeridge: Swimming Against the Stream
- Episode 15Gurus
- Episode 16A Brief Interlude