You Have Been Watching: A British Sitcom Podcast

Greetings citizens and welcome back to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING, a podcast about British sitcoms.In this episode, Tony Black & Robert Turnbull travel back to ancient Pompeii--or should that be the very early 1970s--to discuss bawdy Frankie Howerd-starring sitcom UP POMPEII!, which ran through the 1970s and was rebooted briefly in the early 1990s.Along the way they discuss Howerd's career, stage musicals, Carry On films, proto-Blackadders and the fascinating history of one of British comedy's cheekiest sitcoms...-Remember: subscribe to EXTRA LAUGHS for early access to episodes, ad-free listening and bonus episodes not available to regular listeners. Support the show here: https://wemadethis.supportingcast.fm/you-have-been-watchingNew episodes of YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING drop every two weeks on Thursdays...Host / EditorTony BlackCo-HostRobert TurnbullYou Have Been Watching on social media:Twitter: @yhbwatchingpodSubscribe to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING: EXTRA LAUGHS:https://wemadethis.supportingcast.fm/you-have-been-watchingSupport the We Made This podcast network on Patreon:www.patreon.com/wemadethisWe Made This on Twitter: @we_madethisWebsite:www.wemadethisnetwork.comTitle music: Jumping Cricket (c) Birdies via epidemicsound.com

Welcome back to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING, a podcast about British sitcoms.Join your hosts Tony Black & Robert Turnbull as they look, in the second of a two-part episode, at film adaptations of classic and not so classic sitcoms.Counting down from their 5-1 choices in a Top Ten list, they discuss movies including THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN'S APOCALYPSE, BLESS THIS HOUSE, STEPTOE & SON, ALAN PARTRIDGE: ALPHA PAPA and many more...Host / EditorTony BlackCo-HostRobert TurnbullSupport the We Made This podcast network on Patreon:www.patreon.com/wemadethisTwitter:@yhbwatchingWe Made This on Twitter:@we_madethisWebsite:www.wemadethisnetwork.comTitle music:Jumping Cricket (c) Birdies via epidemicsound.com

Welcome back to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING, a podcast about British sitcoms.Join your hosts Tony Black & Robert Turnbull as they look, in the first of a two-part episode, at film adaptations of classic and not so classic sitcoms.Counting down from their 10-6 choices in a Top Ten list, they discuss movies including DAD'S ARMY, BEAN, GEORGE & MILDRED, HOLIDAY ON THE BUSES (no, we're not joking!) and many more.Don't miss Part 2 as they discuss their 5-1 choices...Host / EditorTony BlackCo-HostRobert TurnbullSupport the We Made This podcast network on Patreon:www.patreon.com/wemadethisTwitter:@yhbwatchingWe Made This on Twitter:@we_madethisWebsite:www.wemadethisnetwork.comTitle music:Jumping Cricket (c) Birdies via epidemicsound.com

Welcome back to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING, a podcast about British sitcoms.Join your hosts Tony Black & Robert Turnbull, in their first new episode of 2023, as they celebrate Valentine's week with a trip into the romantic world of John Sullivan's JUST GOOD FRIENDS, one of the sitcom sensations of the 1980s starring Paul Nicholas & Jan Francis...Host / EditorTony BlackCo-HostRobert TurnbullSupport the We Made This podcast network on Patreon:www.patreon.com/wemadethisTwitter: @yhbwatchingpodWe Made This on Twitter: @we_madethisWebsite: www.wemadethisnetwork.comTitle music: Jumping Cricket (c) Birdies via epidemicsound.com

Welcome back to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING, a podcast about the British television sitcom.In this special Christmas episode, your hosts Tony Black & Robert Turnbull each choose a favourite festive comedy special and discuss why they love it, with some analysis thrown in.Tony went lowbrow (again) with Men Behaving Badly's 'Jingle Balls' and Rob went (sort of again) highbrow with all three of The Vicar of Dibley Christmas specials in 1996, 1999 & 2004.Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!Host / EditorTony BlackCo-HostRobert TurnbullSupport the We Made This podcast network on Patreon:www.patreon.com/wemadethisWe Made This on Twitter: @we_madethiswemadethisnetwork.comTitle music: Jumping Cricket (c) Birdies via epidemicsound.com

Welcome back to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING, a podcast about British sitcoms.Join your hosts Tony Black & Robert Turnbull as they celebrate the 40th anniversary of anarchic early 80s comedy THE YOUNG ONES, featuring the next generation of alternative comedians lampooning the sitcom stable in unique fashion.They are joined by special guest Richard Latto, BBC producer behind the new 40th anniversary Blu-ray set, who talks about the show and the exciting new extras included on the release.Host / EditorTony BlackCo-HostRobert TurnbullSpecial GuestRichard LattoSupport the We Made This podcast network on Patreon:www.patreon.com/wemadethisTwitter: @yhbwatchingpodWe Made This on Twitter: @we_madethiswemadethisnetwork.comTitle music: Jumping Cricket (c) Birdies via epidemicsound.com

Welcome back to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING, a podcast about British sitcoms.Join your hosts Tony Black & Robert Turnbull as they celebrate the 30th anniversary of ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS by discussing Jennifer Saunders' popular comedy which ran from 1992-2012, in the second of a two-part episode.In two weeks time, join Tony as he is joined by Richard Latto, producer of a new BBC release of THE YOUNG ONES, to discuss the show as it turns 30 years old...Host / EditorTony BlackCo-HostRobert TurnbullSupport the We Made This podcast network on Patreon:www.patreon.com/wemadethisTwitter: @yhbwatchingpodWe Made This on Twitter: @we_madethiswemadethisnetwork.comTitle music: Jumping Cricket (c) Birdies via epidemicsound.com

Welcome back to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING, a podcast about British sitcoms.Join your hosts Tony Black & Robert Turnbull as they celebrate the 30th anniversary of ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS by discussing Jennifer Saunders' popular comedy which ran from 1992-2012, in the first of a two-part episode.In two days time, join Tony & Rob as they continue their exploration of ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS into its later years...Host / EditorTony BlackCo-HostRobert TurnbullSupport the We Made This podcast network on Patreon:www.patreon.com/wemadethisTwitter: @yhbwatchingpodWe Made This on Twitter: @we_madethiswemadethisnetwork.comTitle music: Jumping Cricket (c) Birdies via epidemicsound.com

Welcome back to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING, a podcast about British sitcoms.Join your hosts Tony Black & Robert Turnbull as they celebrate the 100th year centenary of the BBC by looking at the broad sweep of BBC sitcom.Going back all the way to the late 1940s, we cover the sweep of key decades across the 20th century where BBC comedy helped shape the social fabric of a changing nation, from Alf Garnett's counter-cultural railing in the 1960s, to Basil Fawlty's latent imperial anxiety across the 70s, and into the lad/ladette culture of the 1990s, before looking at what the 21st century has offered so far. This and so much more!In two weeks time, join Tony as he guests on the Shipwrecked & Comatose podcast with Matt Latham discussing the third season of THE BRITTAS EMPIRE...Host / EditorTony BlackCo-HostRobert TurnbullSupport the We Made This podcast network on Patreon:www.patreon.com/wemadethisTwitter: @yhbwatchingpodWe Made This on Twitter: @we_madethiswemadethisnetwork.comTitle music: Jumping Cricket (c) Birdies via epidemicsound.com

Welcome back to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING, a podcast about British sitcoms.Join your hosts Tony Black & Robert Turnbull as they celebrate the 40th anniversary of WHOOPS APOCALYPSE! by discussing David Renwick & Andrew Marshall's cult comedy from 1982.A satire of the end of the world, the series features a feckless US President under the spell of a fundamentalist, a decaying Soviet state of old men and cloned replacements, and a bonkers British Prime Minister who believes he is Superman. The show depicts, at the latter stage height of the Cold War, a race between idiots toward WW3 - does the series resonate in a 2020s with escalating nuclear conflict and a resurgent Russian threat? We take a look.In two weeks time, join Tony & Rob as they celebrate the centenary of the BBC with a whistle stop tour through the history of the BBC sitcom...Host / EditorTony BlackCo-HostRobert TurnbullSupport the We Made This podcast network on Patreon:www.patreon.com/wemadethisTwitter: @yhbwatchingpodWe Made This on Twitter: @we_madethiswemadethisnetwork.comTitle music: Jumping Cricket (c) Birdies via epidemicsound.com

Welcome back to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING, a podcast about British sitcoms.Join your hosts Tony Black & Robert Turnbull as they travel back to 1999 (or maybe 1969) to discuss Arthur Mathews' short-lived BBC sitcom, HIPPIES.Set at the end of the 60s, featuring Simon Pegg, Sally Phillips, Julian Rhind-Tutt & Darren Boyd as an assortment of middle-class hippies running a counterculture magazine, the series confronts many of the cliches of the era - fashion, hair, festivals etc... but whether it truly manages to bring it all to life is open to question. We try and find out.In two weeks time, join Tony & Rob as they approach the end of the world with David Renwick & Andrew Marshall's 1982 political satire, WHOOPS APOCALYPSE!Host / EditorTony BlackCo-HostRobert TurnbullSupport the We Made This podcast network on Patreon:www.patreon.com/wemadethisTwitter: @yhbwatchingpodWe Made This on Twitter: @we_madethiswemadethisnetwork.comTitle music: Jumping Cricket (c) Birdies via epidemicsound.com

Welcome back to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING, a podcast about British sitcoms.Join your hosts Tony Black & Robert Turnbull as they head for HMP Slade to discuss Dick Clement & Ian la Frenais' 1970s BBC sitcom, PORRIDGE.Starring the great Ronnie Barker as seasoned lag Norman Stanley Fletcher, wheeling, dealing and conniving his way in stir as he plans to 'go straight', Porridge has gone down in sitcom history as one of the greats. But has it stood the test of time? What about the legacy of its sequels and revivals? And what impact did it have on shows to come?In two weeks time, join Tony & Rob as they head back to 1999 (or maybe 1999) to discuss Arthur Mathews' short-lived BBC series, HIPPIES...Host / EditorTony BlackCo-HostRobert TurnbullSupport the We Made This podcast network on Patreon:www.patreon.com/wemadethisTwitter: @yhbwatchingpodWe Made This on Twitter: @we_madethiswemadethisnetwork.comTitle music: Jumping Cricket (c) Birdies via epidemicsound.com

Welcome back to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING, a podcast about British sitcoms.Join your hosts Tony Black & Robert Turnbull for a sadly unexpected tribute episode to the great Bernard Cribbins, who passed away July 27th, 2022, at the age of 93.They take a whistle stop tour through his long career discussing his early CARRY ON movies, his legendary TV appearances such as voicing THE WOMBLES and playing Mr Hutchinson in FAWLTY TOWERS' 'The Hotel Inspectors', all the way through to his late in life famed role in DOCTOR WHO, and with a special focus on 1983's CUFFY, one of the few sitcoms he had a starring role in...Next time, join Tony & Rob as they head to do some stir at HMP Slade as they deep dive into the classic mid-70's Ronnie Barker vehicle, PORRIDGE...Host / EditorTony BlackCo-HostRobert TurnbullSupport the We Made This podcast network on Patreon:www.patreon.com/wemadethisTwitter: @yhbwatchingpodWe Made This on Twitter: @we_madethiswemadethisnetwork.comTitle music: Jumping Cricket (c) Birdies via epidemicsound.com

Welcome back to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING, a podcast about British sitcoms.Join your hosts Tony Black & Robert Turnbull as they look, in the second of a two-part episode, at the best British sitcom themes of all time.Counting down from their 5-1 choices in a Top Ten list, they discuss the themes to series across the decades as diverse as ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES, ALLO ALLO, RED DWARF, BLACKADDER and many more.Next time, join Tony & Rob for a special tribute to the late, great Bernard Cribbins, including a look at his under-seen 1983 sitcom, CUFFY...Host / EditorTony BlackCo-HostRobert TurnbullSupport the We Made This podcast network on Patreon:www.patreon.com/wemadethisTwitter: @yhbwatchingpodWe Made This on Twitter: @we_madethiswemadethisnetwork.comTitle music: Jumping Cricket (c) Birdies via epidemicsound.com

Welcome back to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING, a podcast about British sitcoms.Join your hosts Tony Black & Robert Turnbull as they look, in the first of a two-part episode, at the best British sitcom themes of all time.Counting down from their 10-6 choices in a Top Ten list, they discuss the themes to series across the decades as diverse as HANCOCK'S HALF HOUR, THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN, THE VICAR OF DIBLEY, ARE YOU BEING SERVED? and many more.Don't miss Part 2 as they discuss their 5-1 choices...Host / EditorTony BlackCo-HostRobert TurnbullSupport the We Made This podcast network on Patreon:www.patreon.com/wemadethisTwitter: @yhbwatchingWe Made This on Twitter: @we_madethiswemadethisnetwork.comTitle music: Jumping Cricket (c) Birdies via epidemicsound.com

Welcome back to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING, a podcast about British sitcoms.Join your hosts Tony Black & Robert Turnbull as they discuss John Cleese & Connie Booth's classic 1970s sitcom FAWLTY TOWERS.Frequently cited as one of the greatest comedies of all time, has Basil Fawlty and his madcap escapades in his Torquay hotel stood the test of time? We unpick themes, meanings, problems and successes in this beloved and seminal comedy.Host / EditorTony BlackCo-HostRobert TurnbullSupport the We Made This podcast network on Patreon:www.patreon.com/wemadethisWe Made This on Twitter: @wmt_networkWebsite:wemadethisnetwork.comTitle music: Jumping Cricket (c) Birdies via epidemicsound.com

Welcome to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING: A BRITISH SITCOM PODCASTIn space, no one can hear you laugh... Prepare to boldly go where not many people want to go, as ALEX and ROBERT explore the 1977 pilot episode of Croft & Lloyd's COME BACK Mrs NOAHIts a sci-fi comedy that was ahead of its time but a little bit too old fashioned as MOLLIE SUGDEN, in the title role, gets blasted into space in the year 2150.Its one from the archives... but should it have stayed there?New episodes of YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING drop every two weeks - or even sooner!WATCH THE WHOLE SERIES OF 'COME BACK MRS NOAH' HERE... if you really want to...-Come Back Mrs Noah Click to Watch-Host / EditorRobert Turnbull (Twitter/X @Forducks)Co Host Alex Lynch (Twitter/X @AlexJRLynch)You Have Been Watching on social media:Twitter/X: @YHBWpodSubscribe to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING: EXTRA LAUGHS: patreon.com/YHBWPODSupport the We Made This podcast network on Patreon:www.patreon.com/wemadethisWe Made This on Twitter: @we_madethisWebsite:www.wemadethisnetwork.comTitle music: Jumping Cricket (c) Birdies via epidemicsound.com

Welcome to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING: A BRITISH SITCOM PODCASTOooOOooOOoooooOooo!!!Spooky goings on as ALEX and ROBERT talk about GHOSTS the supernatural sitcom from the EX-HORRIBLE HISTORIES cast (now known as THEM THERE).Running from 2019 to 2023 staring and created by MATHEW BAYNTON, SIMON FARNABY, MARTHA HOWE-DOUGLAS, JIM HOWICK, LAURENCE RICKARD and BEN WILLBOND and co-staring CHARLOTTE RITCHIE, KIELL SMITH-BYNOE, LOLLY ADEFOPE and KATY WIX the show tells the story of a group of eccentric ghosts and the long suffering couple trying to coexist in the rambling, falling apart, Button House.A show so good it needs an extra long episode to discuss it all!New episodes of YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING drop every two weeks - or even sooner!Host / EditorRobert Turnbull (Twitter/X @Forducks)Co Host Alex Lynch (Twitter/X @AlexJRLynch)You Have Been Watching on social media:Twitter: @YHBWpodSubscribe to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING: EXTRA LAUGHS: patreon.com/YHBWPODSupport the We Made This podcast network on Patreon:www.patreon.com/wemadethisWe Made This on Twitter: @we_madethisWebsite:www.wemadethisnetwork.comTitle music: Jumping Cricket (c) Birdies via epidemicsound.com

Welcome to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING: A BRITISH SITCOM PODCAST VWOOOORP! VWOOOORP! VWOOORP! Thanks to some wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey shenanagans fellow WE MADE THIS podcast THE TARDIS CREW has materialised inside YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING as BAZ GREENLAND and his son BEN GREENLAND join regular host ROBERT TURNBULL to talk about the 1999 RED NOSE special THE CURSE OF FATAL DEATH. To help celebrate the network's 5 year anniversary our two podcasts team up and get to grips with this DOCTOR WHO comedy special. But is it more sitcom or more DOCTOR WHO?New episodes of YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING drop every two weeks - or even sooner!Host / EditorRobert Turnbull (Twitter/X @Forducks)Co Host Alex Lynch (Twitter/X @AlexJRLynch)You Have Been Watching on social media:Twitter: @YHBWpodSubscribe to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING: EXTRA LAUGHS: patreon.com/YHBWPODSupport the We Made This podcast network on Patreon:www.patreon.com/wemadethisWe Made This on Twitter: @we_madethisWebsite:www.wemadethisnetwork.comTitle music: Jumping Cricket (c) Birdies via epidemicsound.com

Welcome to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING: A BRITISH SITCOM PODCASTPrepare for insanity as we revisit the 1996 surrealist sitcom, ASYLUM created by EDGAR WRIGHT and DAVID WALLIAMS and written by WRIGHT, WALLIAMS and the cast - including JULIAN BARRATT, SIMON PEGG, JESSICA HYNES and NORMAN LOVETT.It’s weird, surreal and dark… but is it funny? ROBERT and ALEX do the hard work so you don’t have to as we take a deep dive into this oddity from the archives.-PLEASE NOTE: We had a mysterious sound issue at the time of recording (which turned out to be a faulty microphone). Apologies for the light crackle in places!-New episodes of YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING drop every two weeks - or even sooner!Host / EditorRobert Turnbull (Twitter/X @Forducks)Co Host Alex Lynch (Twitter/X @AlexJRLynch)You Have Been Watching on social media:Twitter: @YHBWpodSubscribe to YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING: EXTRA LAUGHS: patreon.com/YHBWPODSupport the We Made This podcast network on Patreon:www.patreon.com/wemadethisWe Made This on Twitter: @we_madethisWebsite:www.wemadethisnetwork.comTitle music: Jumping Cricket (c) Birdies via epidemicsound.com