Forget the laughter. It was the tears, a trickle of real grief, that announced a new kind of comedy on television half a century ago. One Friday evening in January 1962, an episode of the BBC’s Comedy Playhouse series changed the face of sitcom for ever.
Previous shows in the series, by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, had featured comedians such as Eric Sykes and Stanley Baxter. This episode was different: it starred two theatre actors, one a veteran of provincial rep, the other a devotee of the Method School of acting.
Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett were cast as father and son, scraping a living from the rubbish people threw out, surviving on cold, tinned food and the dregs of bottles they collected from behind restaurants. They wore rags salvaged from the bags of clothes they picked up on their rounds, traipsing the streets of London with a horse and cart.
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I agree with everything that man said!!   (How's things Karl?)

And finally an article written on it without any errors.  If one wants to be argumentative, then it was "Comedy Playhouse" that changed the world, as that's how it started. 

I have said it many time, Galton and Simpson sit firmly beside William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens in english culture.  They should be taught in schools.  And, moreover, there's really nice blokes!!

Karl, I wish there was something to report but the BBC don't give a dogs doo-dah's about it.  They did show a cut version of "The Desparate Hours" but that was in tribute to John Howard Davies, just coincidental timing.

Sorry about not being on the other board, I won't be returning.  of course I'm still a fan, and a mate!