The twelfth series of Comedy Playhouse, the long-running BBC series, aired during 1972, with the last two episode being used as fillers due to the Munich massacre.
The twelfth series, which was in colour, consisted of seven episodes, each of which had a different cast and storyline. The pilot episode of Are You Being Served? was intended to be broadcast early in the year but the BBC chose not to broadcast it, and was not transmitted, until the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics necessitated that it was used as a filler.
| width=25% | Title | width=11% | Airdate | width=5% | Duration | width=50% | Overview | width=5% | IMDb link |
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| Idle at Work | 14 January 1972 | 30 mins | |||||||
| And Whose Side Are You On? | 21 January 1972 | 30 mins | |||||||
| Born Every Minute | 28 January 1972 | 30 mins | |||||||
| The Dirtiest Soldier in the World | 27 March 1972 | 30 mins | An adaptation of one story in George MacDonald Fraser's The General Danced At Dawn. | ||||||
| No Peace on the Western Front | 30 August 1972 | 30 mins | Set in the First World War, starred Warren Mitchell as a German soldier. | ||||||
| Weren't You Marcia Honeywell? | 7 September 1972 | 30 mins | |||||||
| Are You Being Served? | 8 September 1972 | 30 mins | Not originally intended to be broadcast, the BBC screened it to fill a gap in the schedules due to the terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics. Became a very long-running programme. | ||||||