Comic Roots

*Comic Roots*
Comic Roots
Genre	Biography
Starring	Keith Allen; Nicholas Ball; Roy Barraclough; Billy Dainty; Les Dawson; Nev Goodwyn ; Irene Handl; Roy Hudd; Michael Palin; Sandy Powell; Alexei Sayle; Paul Shane; Graham Stuart-Harris ; Kenneth Williams
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	8
Production
Running time	8x30 minutes
Original release
Network	BBC1
Release	2 August 1982 –; 2 September 1983

GenreBiography

StarringKeith Allen
Nicholas Ball
Roy Barraclough
Billy Dainty
Les Dawson
Nev Goodwyn
Irene Handl
Roy Hudd
Michael Palin
Sandy Powell
Alexei Sayle
Paul Shane
Graham Stuart-Harris
Kenneth Williams

Country of originUnited Kingdom

No. of episodes8

Comic Roots was a British television series from the early 1980s, documenting the biographies and influences of a number of popular comedians of the era.

Episodes included features on Les Dawson, and Alexei Sayle.^[1] Sayle converted his own documentary into an impromptu pub crawl.

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Comic Roots

Series one (1982)

Series two (1983)

References

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