''Landmark Sitcom Season'' is a BBC project, launched in March 2016, to mark 60 years since ''

Hancock's Half Hour ''Hancock's Half Hour'' was a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy series, broadcast from 1954 to 1961 and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The radio series starred Tony Hancock, with Sidney James, Bill Kerr and,at various ...

'' started on BBC television. As part of ongoing celebrations throughout 2016, the BBC commissioned new scripts for iconic British sitcoms of the prior six decades.

Sitcoms

New episodes

The landmark sitcom season began in the summer of 2016 with a live airing of ''Mrs. Brown's Boys''.

Lost sitcoms

In addition to the new episodes produced, the BBC also commissioned remakes of three episodes from its classic sitcoms under the banner of the "Lost Sitcoms". Of these, the selected episodes of both ''

Till Death Us Do Part ''Till Death Us Do Part'' is a British television sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1965 to 1975. The show was first broadcast in 1965 as a '' Comedy Playhouse'' pilot, then as seven series between 1966 and 1975. In 1981, ITV continued the sitc ...

'' and ''

'' are missing from the BBC archives, while the episode of ''

Steptoe and Son ''Steptoe and Son'' is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father-and-son rag-and-bone business in 26a Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London. Four series were broadcast by the BBC in black a ...

'', originally broadcast in colour, exists only as an off-air black & white videotape recording.

Under consideration

Another sitcom marked for possible remake and broadcast was ''

Up Pompeii! ''Up Pompeii!'' is a British television comedy series set in ancient Pompeii and broadcast between 1969 and 1970, starring Frankie Howerd. The first series was written by Talbot Rothwell, a scriptwriter for the ''Carry On'' films, and the seco ...

''.

References

{{Reflist 2016 British television series debuts 2016 British television series endings BBC Radio comedy programmes BBC television sitcoms Lost BBC episodes British English-language television shows