Landmark Sitcom Season Explained

Landmark Sitcom Season is a BBC project,^[1] launched in March 2016, to mark 60 years since Hancock's Half Hour started on BBC television.

As part of ongoing celebrations throughout 2016, the BBC commissioned new scripts for iconic British sitcoms of the prior six decades.

Sitcoms

New episodes

The landmark sitcom season began in the summer of 2016 with a live airing of Mrs. Brown's Boys.

Serial no.	Title	Show	Director	Writer	Original air date	UK viewers (in millions)

Lost sitcoms

In addition to the new episodes produced, the BBC also commissioned remakes of three episodes from its classic sitcoms under the banner of the "Lost Sitcoms".^[2] Of these, the selected episodes of both Till Death Us Do Part^[3] and Hancock's Half Hour^[4] are missing from the BBC archives, while the episode of Steptoe and Son, originally broadcast in colour, exists only as an off-air black & white videotape recording.^[5]

Serial no.	Title	Director	Writer	Original air date	UK viewers (in millions)

Under consideration

Another sitcom marked for possible remake and broadcast was Up Pompeii!.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Web site: BBC – BBC launches landmark sitcom season across BBC One, BBC Two and BBC Four – Media Centre.
2. Web site: Lost Sitcoms – How a hole in the BBC archive helped wake the comedy ghosts of Alf Garnett, Albert Steptoe and Tony Hancock – BBC Four.
3. Web site: Till Death Us Do Part . . Missing-Episodes.com . 21 September 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131022123025/http://www.thiswaydown.org/missing-episodes/tilldeat.htm . 22 October 2013 . dead .
4. Web site: Hancock's Half Hour. . Missing-Episodes.com . 21 September 2016 .
5. Web site: The Lost Colour Steptoe episodes . . albertandharold.co.uk . The Steptoe and Son Appreciation Society . 21 September 2016 .