A new thread here for everyone to post thier interesting Sitcom/comedy trivia for us all to enjoy/cringe at, anything at all is welcome!
Here's my opener-
Swallows bank in "Dads Army" is the same bank that Sid james & his gang robbed in the 1965 film "The Big job"

 Here's another-
Tony Hancock was the original choice to play Capt. Mainwaring in "Dads army"

Excellent idea for a thread!

Tyger Drew-Honey, the eldest son in Outnumbered is the child of glamour model Linzi Drew and male pornstar Ben Dover!

Apparently, the Beeb delivered a coachload of Finnish tourists who couldn't understand English to the studio that day... or was that the first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus?

So much trivia, so little memory to keep it all neatly organised... wish we could add RAM...

"Only Fools and Horses" was originally ended on the series 5 episode "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" when it ended, and was recorded, with Del moving to Australia, leaving Rodney and Albert in the flat.  It ended with Rodney reading Del's goodbye note.  This was because David Jason told the BBC he wished to do no more episodes.

A week before it was broadcast he changed his mind, and as the set was still up (filming had just stopped), they refilmed the ending, and had Del deciding to stay after all.

Also, the episode "Hole In One" was originally filmed with Lennard Pearce instead of Buster Merryfield, but he died before all of the episode was completed - his scenes have never been shown.

Before starting his acting career, while still living in his native South Africa, Sid James used to be a very successful ladies' hairdresser...

Well, guess everybody knew that already, but it's such an unlikely idea I thought it couldn't be missing in this thread... (cackles)

Spike Milligan, Ronnie Barker and David Jason all claimed, at different times, to have been the one who had recorded the raspberries heard throughout the Two Ronnies' mini-series "The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town".

Will we ever know who the real blower was?

In the early '50s the variety radio show "Star Bill" was scripted by Bob Monkhouse and Denis Goodwin.

One of the resident comedians in the show had taken such a dislike to their material that he'd started using the actual pages of the script as toilet paper. Eventually, the producers took the subtle hint and replaced the writers with a pair of very promising youngsters, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

The resident comedian in question was Tony Hancock, esq.

It doesn't bear thinking how, exactly, the toilet paper detail was made public for all to know , but the anecdote was related by Bob Monkhouse himself in his memoirs, so there must be a fundament of truth in the story of how Hancock got to working with G&S for the first time...