An offbeat revue of quickfire sketches in the 'Cribbins style', this fast-moving mixture of comedy and song (including chart hits Hole in the Ground, Gossip Calypso, and Right Said Fred) featured a gallery of outrageous characters in a myriad of seemingly inexhaustible situations! Bank clerk, burglar, tramp, librarian, cowboy and even spaceman – Cribbins is all these, and many more!
2 seasons · 12 episodes
Episode 1
Sep 15, 197025 min
A husband returns from holiday with an interesting gift; Bernard sings his 1962 hit single, Hole in the Ground; a Window Dresser performs a striptease with a clothes dummy; a guardsman loses his trousers; a Traffic Warden is mistaken for a
Episode 2
Sep 22, 197025 min
A ventriloquist has a cheeky secret; a son takes a rather officious line with his father; Adrian Bogworthy recites another poem; a coal miner is late for a ballroom dancing competition; Bernard sings I'd Rather Go Fishing and there is a pec
Episode 3
Sep 29, 197025 min
An unusual approach to a chess match; Bernard sings the song Verily; a pregnancy is announced to a husband with hiccups; a burglar is mistaken for Peter Pan; there's an unusual TV discussion; a man chases a fly, and Adrian Bogworthy returns
Episode 4
Oct 6, 197025 min
A husband celebrates the anniversary of his wife leaving him; a swarm of bees take up an inconvenient residence; Bernard sings Gossip Calypso; a butler loses his temper; a husband is chosen to be the first Englishman to land on the Moon; a
Episode 5
Oct 13, 197025 min
A bank clerk reveals his true identity; there are strange goings on in a mens' sauna; a prospector leaves his gold mine to his sweetheart; Bernard sings a Folk Song; a cross channel swim attempt takes place; Adrian Bogworthy once again read
Episode 6
Oct 20, 197025 min
Police search for an escaped prisoner at a convent; a man traces his lineage; Bernard sings his hit from 1962, Right Said Fred; a murder scene in a play goes wrong; a husband explains why he was seen with another woman; Adrian Bogworthy giv
