Television shows adapted into plays

Porridge

Series Age rating: 12 Year: 1974 IMDB Rating: 8.3

Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La...

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Bottom

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 1991 IMDB Rating: 8.3

Richie Richard (socially awkward, sexually inexperienced) and Eddie Hitler (carefree alcoholic ) are two social outcasts living on the dole. Trapped together in a squalid flat in Hammersmith, London t...

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The Avengers

Series Age rating: 6 Year: 1961 IMDB Rating: 8.3

The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main char...

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SpongeBob SquarePants

Series Age rating: 5 Year: 1999 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Deep down in the Pacific Ocean in the subterranean city of Bikini Bottom lives a square yellow sponge named SpongeBob SquarePants. SpongeBob lives in a pineapple with his pet snail, Gary, loves his jo...

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Dad's Army

Series Age rating: 4 Year: 1968 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Introducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard. During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion.

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Thunderbirds

Series Age rating: 2 Year: 1965 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Thunderbirds is a 1960s British science-fiction television series which was produced using a mixed method of marionette puppetry and scale-model special effects termed "Supermarionation". The series i...

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Keeping Up Appearances

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 1990 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Hyacinth Bucket (whose name, she insists, is pronounced "Bouquet") is a suburban housewife in the West Midlands. She would be the first to tell you that she is a gracious hostess, a respected citizen,...

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Steptoe and Son

Series Age rating: 6 Year: 1962 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father and son played by Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett who deal in selling used items. They live on Oil Drum...

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Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

Series Age rating: 10 Year: 1973 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? is a British sitcom which was broadcast between 9 January 1973 and 9 April 1974 on BBC1. It was the colour sequel to the mid-1960s hit The Likely Lads. It was cre...

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