Comedy Connections

Comedy Connections
Format	Documentary
Narrated by	Julia Sawalha Doon Mackichan
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	47 (as of 8 November 2008)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Mike Bolland (Series 1-2) Gary Chippington (Series 3) Alan Tyler (Series 4-) Toby Stevens (Director)
Running time	30 minutes (series 1 to 3) 40 minutes (series 4 to 6)
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC One
Original run	9 June 2003 – present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Comedy Connections is a BBC One documentary series produced by BBC Scotland that has aired since 2003. The show looks at the stories behind the production of some of Britain's comedy television programmes, showing how they tie in with the production of other comedy shows (hence "connections"). The shows feature interviews with some of the cast and crew of the subject programme, as well as footage from the series.

Comedy Connections mostly documents BBC comedies, although two programmes have been from ITV and two from Channel 4.

In 2005, the BBC broadcast Drama Connections, which using the same format, looked at the history of popular British television dramas; this was followed by Movie Connections in 2007, focusing on popular British films.

A seventh series for 2009 is currently in production.

Episodes

The first two series were narrated by Julia Sawalha and the third series onwards by Doon Mackichan.

Series One (2003)

1. Porridge (9 Jun 2003)
2. The Good Life (16 Jun 2003)
3. Are You Being Served? (23 Jun 2003)
4. Men Behaving Badly (30 Jun 2003)
5. Butterflies (7 Jul 2003)
6. Only Fools and Horses (14 Jul 2003)

Series Two (2004)

1. The Goodies (21 Jun 2004)
2. Birds of a Feather (28 Jun 2004)
3. Father Ted (12 Jul 2004)
4. The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (18 Jul 2004)
5. Keeping Up Appearances (26 Jul 2004)
6. The Young Ones (2 Aug 2004)
7. Hi-de-Hi! (9 Aug 2004)
8. Red Dwarf (30 Aug 2004)

Series Three (2005)

1. Monty Python's Flying Circus (21 Feb 2005)
2. Spitting Image (28 Feb 2005)
3. Three of a Kind (7 Mar 2005)
4. Harry Enfield and Chums (14 Mar 2005)
5. Goodness Gracious Me (21 Mar 2005)
6. Not the Nine O'Clock News (28 Mar 2005)
7. A Bit of Fry and Laurie (4 Apr 2005)
8. The Two Ronnies (11 Apr 2005)

Series Four (2006)

1. The Fast Show (6 Mar 2006)
2. dinnerladies (13 Mar 2006)
3. Drop the Dead Donkey (20 Mar 2006)
4. Shooting Stars (3 Apr 2006)
5. To the Manor Born (10 Apr 2006)
6. 'Allo 'Allo! (24 Apr 2006)
7. That Was The Week That Was (1 May 2006)
8. Ever Decreasing Circles (8 May 2006)

Series Five (2007)

1. One Foot in the Grave (12 Jan 2007)
2. Bread (19 Jan 2007)
3. It Ain't Half Hot Mum (26 Jan 2007)
4. The New Statesman (2 Feb 2007)
5. Don't Wait Up (9 Feb 2007)
6. The Office (16 Feb 2007)
7. Just Good Friends (23 Feb 2007)
8. Alas Smith and Jones (2 Mar 2007)

Series Six (2008)

1. Till Death Us Do Part (18 Jul 2008)
2. Yes Minister/Yes, Prime Minister (25 Jul 2008)
3. The Liver Birds (1 Aug 2008)
4. Ripping Yarns (8 Aug 2008)
5. Rab C. Nesbitt (15 Aug 2008)
6. Sorry! (22 Aug 2008)
7. Dad's Army (29 Aug 2008)
8. Little Britain (4 Sep 2008)

Special

• Geoffrey Perkins (8 November 2008)

External links

• Comedy Connections at bbc.co.uk
• Comedy Connections at the Internet Movie Database
• Comedy Connections at TV.com
• British Comedy Guide