Heroes of Comedy is a British television series, produced by Thames Television, and broadcast on Channel 4, which devotes each episode to a legend of British comedy. It was produced by John Fisher. Beginning in 1995, it followed a 2½ hour more general programme from 1992.
Episodes
Series one
Episode number | Subject | Original air date |
Pilot | Frankie Howerd | 1 January 1995 |
1 | Tommy Cooper | 13 October 1995 |
2 | Joyce Grenfell | 20 October 1995 |
3 | Max Miller* | 27 October 1995 |
4 | Arthur Haynes | 3 November 1995 |
5 | Terry-Thomas | 17 November 1995 |
- Contributions from Roy Hudd and Bob Monkhouse. An animatronic Miller was created for the programme and performed by David Barclay, Dave Chapman and Mike Quinn.
Series two
Episode number | Subject | Original air date |
1 | Les Dawson | 16 April 1997 |
2 | Kenny Everett | 23 April 1997 |
3 | Alastair Sim | 30 April 1997 |
4 | The Goons* | 7 May 1997 |
- The first group subject, and the first where two of the performers covered (Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe) were alive at the time of broadcast.
Series three
Episode number | Subject | Original air date |
1 | Benny Hill | 12 January 1998 |
2 | Peter Cook | 19 January 1998 |
3 | Arthur Askey | 26 January 1998 |
4 | Tony Hancock | 2 February 1998 |
This series examined dead performers.
Series four
All subjects in this series were living at the time of broadcast.
Series five
This series examined living and dead performers.
Series six
- Previously covered as part of the Goons episode. Aired three days after Milligan's death.
Series seven
Episode number | Subject | Original air date |
1 | Max Wall | 2 January 2003 |
External links
- Heroes of Comedy at IMDb.