The quintessential quickfire st&-up comedy show The Comedians is one of the great successes of ITV1
- lasting from 1971 until 1993 & making household names of many of its stars With routines that were honed to perfection in the hard-knock territory of Northern working men's clubs Frank Carson Charlie Williams Bernard Manning Colin Crompton & Ken Goodwin all became masters of the one-liner & the knowing wink The Comedians was immediately popular with the viewing public scoring high ratings & gaining a BAFTA nomination for Best Light Entertainment Programme It lasted for eleven series & several specials over twenty-two years this specially-created compilation from its early years contains some of the best moments from series one