Meet the Lad: The Improbable Rise of Tony Hancock -- Heaven's Half Hour: The Greatest Thirty Minutes of All -- Aaah, He's Fallen in the Water: The Madness of Saint Milligoon -- Your Majesty Is Like a Cream Donut: It's Not Funny, It's Satirical -- This Bloke Came Up to Me: Pete, Dud and the Pursuit of Perfection -- Busmen and Totters: Blakey, Stan and a Dirty Old Man -- The Moo and All Who Are as Silly as She: Alf Garnett and the Bleedin' Moral Fiber of the Nation -- And Now for Something Prototypically Pythonic: The Expurgated Version, Of Course -- And Now for Something Else: Say No More -- Who Do You Think You Are Kidding ... War Can Be a Laughing Matter -- Goodie Goodie Yum Yum: Stuffing Gibbons with the Goodies -- Eeee Bah Gum, Thou Feckless Wassock: Trouble at Mill and Other Northern Clichés -- You Care? I Didn't Know: Compo, Cleggie and Dear Old Uncle Stavely (He Heard That Pardon?) -- Kids in the Hall, and the Other Rooms, Too: Likely Lads, Lively Birds and a Man About the House -- A Fool and His Roller Skates: Frank Spencer, Sid Abbott and Mrs. Slocombe's Pussy -- I Didn't Get Where I Am Today Without... Self-Sufficiency, Suburbia and Suicide -- The Pythonic Legacy: Manuel in Rutland by Frog -- Five Go Mad in Student Accommodation: The Birth of the Comic Strip -- An Utter Bastard, Elizabethan Style: Blackadder and the Bean -- Only Fools and Aristocrats: Would You Buy a Used Stately Home from This Man? -- The Lord Is My Scriptwriter: Faith, Hope and Father Ted -- And That's Why They Changed the Way You Say "Uranus": Smegheads in Space -- If Voting Could Change Things, They'd Make It Illegal: Yes Minister, No Minister ... and Malcolm Tucker. The Spin Doctor Who ... -- Mocking the Media: Dropping Donkeys Absolutely Fabulously -- Everybody Behaving Badly: Friends with Benefits.
Summary:
Britcoms FAQ is a sweeping survey of the very best in British television comedy, from the early days of 1950s television and the rise of Tony Hancock through the golden age of Monty Python -- featuring the madcap comic geniuses of the 1980s-- to the modern age of Absolutely Fabulous, and more. -- back cover.
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