Dave Allen

Dave Allen was an alternative comedian before the phrase even existed. He was an innovator who set the agenda for comedy and comedians for more than...

British comedy legend Victoria Wood entertains a star-studded audience including Julie Walters, Judi Dench and Dawn French in this 1988 special....

With his trademark props - the stool and the whisky glass - Dave Allen proves the essentials of great comedy are simply a microphone, an audience and...

Told by family and friends, with rare unseen archive, this documentary reflects on the career of Dave Allen, relative of poet Katharine Tynan, and a...

Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent.

A 1974 documentary in which comedian Dave Allen meets a variety of eccentrics including Alexander Stuart Wortley who lives in a box on wheels, a...

When greed threatens the livelihood of an Italian monastery, a monk flees with the formula for their special liquor.

A personal selection of 1½ hours of the finest gags from the grand master of innovative comedy

An All-Star salute to Sir Lew Grade, featuring Julie Andrews, Tom Jones, and the last public performance by John Lennon.

Compilation of favourite gags, routines and observations, selected from across the groundbreaking comedian's thirty years in showbusiness and...