...They aired live, and while the ability to record [[w:live television|live television]] was developed in late 1947, the BBC rarely used the technology until arou [[Category:1950s British television series]]

{{Infobox television ...[[w:BBC Television|BBC TV]] (series 1)<br>[[w:ITV (TV channel)|ITV]] (from series 2)

{{Infobox television | num_seasons = 5 <!-- Or num_series. Increment when new seasons/series begin. See template documentation for more info. -->

{{Short description|British comedy show}} | television = ''Educating Archie''

{{Infobox television ...ng [[Robbie Coltrane]] (Series 2), [[Tracey Ullman]], [[Richard Stilgoe]] (Series 1), [[Miriam Margolyes]], [[Rik Mayall]], [[Ron Bain]] and [[Roger Sloman]]

| television = | first_aired = {{Start date|1950|01|16|df=y}}

{{Infobox television ...01bc|title=Harold Snoad|website=BFI}}</ref> The show was broadcast over 19 series with 166 episodes.<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BFI'/> The show experi

...e=19 |publisher=[[BBC Publications|BBC Publications]] |issue=1507 |edition=Television |volume=116 |via=[[BBC Genome Project|BBC Genome Project]] |access-date=202 ...es and music, the show helped to launch the careers of a number of leading British performers.

* Ronnie Hanbury (series 1) * Eddie Maguire (series 1-4)

...show broadcast from 1944 to 1950 and 1951 to 1954 by [[BBC radio]] and in 1950–51 by [[Radio Luxembourg (English)#Programmes_2|Radio Luxembourg]]. It wa ...fter the show ended, its two stars returned to radio in later long-running series.

| other_names = ''Crazy People'' (series 1) ...28 May to 20 September 1951, was titled '''''Crazy People'''''; subsequent series had the title ''The Goon Show''.

| image = The British comedian Tommy Handley rehearses with actors from his ITMA show (cropped).j ...immediately cancelled: ''ITMA'' could not work without him, and no further series were commissioned.

...signed to a contract.{{sfn|Robinson|pp=76–77}} Chaplin began by playing a series of minor parts, eventually progressing to starring roles in 1909.{{sfn|Marr ...ption2 = Chaplin's [[trademark look|trademark]] character "[[the Tramp]]" debuts in ''[[Kid Auto Races at Venice]]'' (1914), Chaplin's second released film