Comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest and funniest, but often overlooked, names in showbiz

In 1970, I worked for the first and only time with Peter Bowles in The Ambassador, part of a TV series called Happy Ever After – no, no, not the comedy with Terry Scott and June Whitfield – but a dram

THE FATE OF MR WALLIAMS highlights a long-standing ...

I lived in Walsall when I was growing up and I still go back to see my dad, who’s in his 90s. It was a bustling place, there was a thriving market life. Every Saturday, me and my mates would walk thro

Sally was on a mission – and she had her eyes on the prize

TELEVISION in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s was a golden age of light entertainment. Millions delighted in the mimicry of Mike Yarwood and the characters created by Dick Emery. The most lavish TV sketch sh